Browsing by Author "Chelouche Fatiha"

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    A Comparative Study of Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987) and Malika Mokeddem’s Les Hommes qui Marchent (1990)
    (Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou, 2025) Hamoudi Tinhinane; Chelouche Fatiha
    This dissertation is a contribution to Feminist Studies and Comparative Literature. It examines the representation of marginalized women in Toni Morrison’s Beloved and Malika Mokeddem’s Les Hommes qui marchent. The aim is to explore how both novels depict women’s experiences of oppression linked to race, gender, class, and colonial history, using bell hooks’ theory of “Intersectional Feminism” and Gayatri Spivak’s concept of “Subalternity” as theoretical frameworks. The two texts give voice to women who are excluded from dominant narratives and question the possibility of representation for those who are silenced. The dissertation applies a comparative literary approach, focusing on structure, setting, characters, and themes. The findings show that in Beloved, Morrison portrays a formerly enslaved Black woman whose struggle centers on the legacy of slavery, the trauma of maternal loss, and the effort to reclaim voice and subjectivity. In Les Hommes qui marchent, Mokeddem depicts women’s lives under colonial and patriarchal constraints in Algeria, where displacement and exile mark their identities. Yet, resilience enables them to assert presence and agency. The study shows that although the contexts in which the two texts were written differ, their stories reflect common patterns of marginalization and resilience.