الممارسات اللّغويّة
Volume 17, Numéro 1, Pages 752-771
2026-06-01
Negotiating Feminine Identity In Selected Novels By Ahlam Mostaghanemi
Authors : Bensafi Fatiha . Khelifa Arezki .
Abstract
Drawing on Gayatri Spivak’s concept of the subaltern as articulated in her seminal essay “Can the Subaltern Speak?”, this article discusses the ways Ahlam Mostaghanemi’s artistic and literary imagination operate in her novels: Memory in the Flesh (1993) and Chaos of the Senses (1997). It explores her negotiation of feminine identity and her resistance to both colonial French and traditional restrictions imposed on Algerian women. It also highlights how her imagination evolves across the novels as she searches for a suitable narrative perspective through which she articulates her concerns, secures a deserved place in the literary world, and realizes her identity as an Algerian woman writer who is making her mark on Algerian literature in Arabic. The findings suggest that in her quest for recognition within the literary world, the author employs two strategies. She writes in Arabic though she masters French and she employs a male voice in her first novel and a female one in the second to express her ideas, voice her concerns, and assert agency as an Algerian woman writer.
Keywords
Memory in the Flesh ; Chaos of the Senses ; subalten ; patriarchy ; feminine identity
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