مجلة إشكالات في اللغة و الأدب
Volume 14, Numéro 3, Pages 437-452
2025-09-02
Unearthing Female Jeopardies And The Quest For Algerian Female Identity Through Language And Narrative In Assia Djebar’s So Vast The Prison
Authors : Amara Imène . Senoussi Mohammed .
Abstract
The present paper sheds light on the issue of female identity reconstruction and negotiation as being contingently manipulated by the lingual collision that ensues from being affiliated to twofold divergent cultural systems through the close reading of Assia Djebar’s So Vast the Prison (1995, trans. 1999). Using postcolonial feminist insights, the paper attempts to convincingly capture the author’s contention to unearth Algerian women predicaments through ‘the adversarial tongue’, French, due to the lack of mastering the Arabic language. The novel displays Djebar’s paradoxical attitude toward addressing postcolonial female plights through French as bewildering and inappropriate, at times, and as threading the path for a favourable, freestanding space for unbound scopes of identity re-inscription, at others. This paper also examines the array of innovative hybrid narrative, namely the polyphonic discourse, and the distinct literary devices employed to untangle the ongoing predicaments that disrupt Algerian women. It is revealed that this discourse permits productive personal as well as collective remodelling of Algerian female identity.
Keywords
Assia Djebar ; femininity ; identity ; jeopardies ; language ; quest
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