أفكار وآفاق
Volume 13, Numéro 1, Pages 135-151
2025-05-31
The Representation Of Indigenous Characters In Albert Camus’s The Stranger And Yasmina Khadra’s What The Day Owes The Night
Authors : Nemir Eddouaouda Selma . Douifi Mohamed .
Abstract
This article attempts at analyzing the pejorative representation of the indigenous Algerians in Albert Camus’ The Stranger and Yasmina Khadra’s What the Day Owes the Night through Frantz Fanon’s Manicheanism and Abdul JanMohamed’s Manichean Aesthetics. The present research unravels the anonymous depiction of the native characters in Camus’s text which portrays them as nameless shadows while they barely make an articulate presence. Khadra on the other hand responds to The Stranger by giving life and presence to the indigenous characters through a well detailed and nuanced description. However, Khadra’s portrayal of the residents of the native quarter proves to be distorted sending connotations of physical and moral deformity which brings forwards the influence of colonialist fiction JanMohamed thoroughly documents to explicate the impact of Manicheanism on colonial literature. Building on Fanon’s concept of Manicheanism, Manichean Aesthetics is used in order to unravel the Manichean structure present in fiction through the sub-concepts of Manichean Allegory, Binary Oppostion and the Representation of the other. These concepts are implemented to showcase that the indigenous characters in both texts resonate with evil which stands in opposition to the virtue of the European settler.
Keywords
Arab ; Camus ; Khadra ; indigenous characters ; Manicheanism ; pejorative representation
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