Independence: Supreme Character of a People Algerianness Through Letters

Résumé

Since its emergence (during colonization), Algerian literature of French
expression has followed a singular course which, proceeding from a striking identity of
writing, has been able to gradually reclaim and preserve its “Algerianness” as a singulative
mode of a reappropriation of the primordial Self. History, culture and language are its
instruments.
However, can an enlightened analytical reading of the concept of “Algerianity”, via the
French-speaking Algerian text, today only describe the particularity and highlight the
singularity of this writing, as complex as it is complicated in the absence of a watchword
behind which to line up like that of Negritude? Patriotism retains only one and only thing:
to write an Algerian-style romantic fiction is to forge the soul of a hero in the interactive focus
of national history and its heritage in the light of cultural scenes and language practices
mastered by “visionary” Algerian writers.