Female Identity in Postcolonial Algerian Literature Case study : Assia Djebar’s Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement

Abstract

Post-colonial Algerian society considered women as the last stronghold of identity that must be preserved and defended after colonialism destroyed the tribal structure that prevailed before it as well as the cultural and religious pillar. Assia Djebar was one of most brilliant writers at that time in Algeria . She tried to represent the statue of Algerian woman in her masterpiece ‘’ Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement ‘’. Through this work Djabar focused on the memory and the lost identity and made a connection with history. Also, she tend to make a link between post colonialism theory and feminism in Algeria. However, the principle issue is to reveal that the idea of postcolonial feminist exists in Algerian literature . Assia's writings are an interpretation of a suffering experienced during her youth in a society which gives priority to man