From a colonial campaign that was envisioned by France as the
redemption of its Algerian "children" through Western civilization
to Algerian Independence that was lived by both parties as a bloody
divorce; recent Algerian history has been imagined and represented
in terms of the family. Prominent authors such as Kateb Yacine and
Mouloud Mammeri pondered their own fate during the War of
Independence as the "mixed" children of a failed colonial marriage.
Contemporary postcolonial authors such as Rachid Boudjedra, Yasmina
Salah, and Arezki Mellal have filled their narratives with orphaned
children searching for ideal parents as a civil war ripped Algeria
apart in the 1990s. Violent Beginnings: Literary Representations of
Postcolonial Algeria explores how violence, during the War of
Independence (1954-1962) to the more recent civil war (1991-2002),
has shaped literary representations of both family and nation in
contemporary literature. For example, discussions of the struggle
for independence in Assia Djebar's La femme sans sepulture and
Ahlam Mostaghanemi's Memory of the Flesh, represent sexual torture
associated with this earlier war period as having a negative impact
on victims' ability to have children and contribute to the
development of the Algerian nation. Texts examining the more recent
civil war such as Rachid Boudjedra's La vie a l'endroit and Yasmina
Salah's Glass Nation establish a link between the earlier violence
of the independence struggle and contemporary events. Additionally,
these texts proceed to demonstrate how violence has shaped familial
and national structures, more specifically causing distorted
familial bonds and political chaos in contemporary Algerian
society.
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