Research Article Details

Citation Journal Title: International Jordanian Journal Aryam for Humanities and Social Sciences

Citation Title: The image of the liberation revolution in the Algerian novel, from imagination to overturning the authoritarianism of history

Citation Author: Dr. Mona Bashlam

Citation Affiliation: École Normale Supérieure of Constantine, Algeria

Citation Volume: 4

Citation Issue: 3

Citation Year: 2022

Citation DOI: https://doi.org/10.65811/436

Citation PDF: https://aijj.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/IJJA-VOL-4-ISSUE-3-NO-6-2022-PP-121-135-PDF-1.pdf

Received Date: 9 June 2022

Revised Date: 21 July 2022

Accepted Date: 17 August 2022

Publication Date: 12 September 2022

First Page: 121

Citation Abstract: The research deals with the Algerian novel in its depiction of the liberation revolution, which is a topic of special importance in Algerian culture and global history as it is one of the largest revolutions against colonialism. But how did the Algerian novelists portray this revolution, and were they satisfied with praising it, or did they not remain silent regarding its developments? The aim of the study is to provide an approach to the way in which novelists presented the revolution, and their reading of national history. The body of the revolution in the first positive images presented by the novel The Mountains of Dhahra by Muhammad Sari depicted a great revolution that arose to lift injustice and confront an oppressive colonialist and called it the heroic struggle. Patience and sacrifices, in addition to the suffering of the population from the poverty and injustice imposed on them by the colonizers, in addition to the arrest of their children and their imprisonment in distant prisons. As for the second negative image, it exposes what has been hidden from history and explores the betrayals and physical liquidations to which some of the active members of this revolution were subjected. The hands of their colleagues in it who differ from them in ideological affiliation, as is the case with the novel Disintegration by Rachid Boudjedra, and the memory of the body by Ahlam Mosteghanemi, which presented an image of a stolen revolution, planned and implemented by the heroes, while the opportunists and last-minute mujahideen benefited from it.

Citation Keywords: The image, the self and the other, the founding narrative, history, centrality.