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This study aims to highlight and explore the impact of the French colonisation on the Algerian in... more This study aims to highlight and explore the impact of the French colonisation on the Algerian intellectuals in Yasmina Khadra's What the Day Owes the Night (2008). The selected novel provides a socio-historical account of a critical period in the Algerian history. Besides, it sheds light on the identity issues experienced by Algerian intellectuals which were a direct result to the assimilation policy adopted by the French administration in colonial Algeria. This research focuses on the traumatic consequences of being in margins and on borders of two clashing cultures: the native one and that of the coloniser, namely as an inevitable outcome of identity hybridisation. This endeavor, thus, investigates how those Algerian intellectuals developed a sense of alienation and confronted a chaotic psychological state of inbetweenness, particularly after the outbreak of the War for Independence. This study brings to the surface the troubled relationship between Algeria and France and see...
This study aims to highlight and explore the impact of the French colonisation on the Algerian in... more This study aims to highlight and explore the impact of the French colonisation on the Algerian intellectuals in Yasmina Khadra's What the Day Owes the Night (2008). The selected novel provides a socio-historical account of a critical period in the Algerian history. Besides, it sheds light on the identity issues experienced by Algerian intellectuals which were a direct result to the assimilation policy adopted by the French administration in colonial Algeria. This research focuses on the traumatic consequences of being in margins and on borders of two clashing cultures: the native one and that of the coloniser, namely as an inevitable outcome of identity hybridisation. This endeavor, thus, investigates how those Algerian intellectuals developed a sense of alienation and confronted a chaotic psychological state of inbetweenness, particularly after the outbreak of the War for Independence. This study brings to the surface the troubled relationship between Algeria and France and see...