By Lucie Knight-Santos
Violent Beginnings: Literary Representations of Postcolonial Algeria explores how violence, in the course of the struggle of Independence (1954–1962) to the newer civil conflict (1991–2002), has formed literary representations of either family members and country in modern literature. for instance, discussions of the fight for independence in Assia Djebar’s La femme sans sépulture and Ahlam Mostaghanemi’s reminiscence of the Flesh, signify sexual torture linked to this previous conflict interval as having a unfavourable effect on sufferers’ skill to have young ones and give a contribution to the advance of the Algerian kingdom. Texts interpreting the newer civil struggle reminiscent of Rachid Boudjedra’s La vie à l’endroit and Yasmina Salah’s Glass Nation identify a hyperlink among the sooner violence of the independence fight and modern occasions. also, those texts continue to demonstrate how violence has formed familial and nationwide constructions, extra in particular inflicting distorted familial bonds and political chaos in modern Algerian society.