Discourses of Female Exile and the Quest for Identity of The Self for an Eternal Return in Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement by Assia Djebar

Résumé

The exile of the femalecharacters to a new land isneverconceived as a definitivedeparture, not least becauseitisalways a more or lessforceduprooting, oftenprecipitated by history. Whatever the trigger –economic situation, politicalregime, war or naturaldisaster– the abandonment of the place of originimmediately exposes the femalecharacters to a profounddilemma. How do the femalecharacterscopewith the inevitableinnerconflictengendered by exile, and manage the clash of differenceswithinthemselves? And, above all, will a return to their homeland everbe an option? In this article, we propose to examine the strategies of novelisticdiscourseused in the Djebariantext in order to question and demonstrate the possible functions of resilience in the femalecharacters.

Keywords: Exile, Fragmented Identity, Wandering, Female Characters, Uprooting.