مجلة البحوث و الدراسات الإنسانية
Volume 19, Numéro 2, Pages 856-869
2025-12-25
The Violence Of The Historical Imaginary In Yasmina Salah’s The Sea Of Silence
Authors : Guetteche Messaouda .
Abstract
History stands as the central concern of the Algerian novelist Yasmina Salah. It is the foundation on which she constructs her fictional worlds, and The Sea of Silence offers the clearest example for observing how she approaches history and the consequences of such an approach. Examining key passages shows that violence permeates the novel’s imaginary on several levels, mirroring the deteriorated reality in which the Algerian subject lived. That reality left deep scars on character and psyche, scars that independence did not erase. Moving through successive periods of upheaval and radical change inevitably impressed itself upon the human self. Salah chose to foreground this impact by focusing on the figure of Si al-Said. From this perspective, the present study history; novel; imaginary; violence; War of Liberation.centers on exploring the violence that defines the novel’s imaginary world.
Keywords
history; novel; imaginary; violence; War of Liberation.
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