Violence and resistance in Ait Ouahioune’s The eternal snow (2023)
| dc.contributor.author | Larfi Ahmed | |
| dc.contributor.author | Chalal Sadia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-04-08T10:21:03Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-04-08T10:21:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.description | 55p. ; (+CD-Rom) | |
| dc.description.abstract | This research explores the issue of colonial violence with reference to Ait Ouahioune’s The Eternal Snow (2023). Dealing with colonial violence in the post-colonial period has a crucial importance in digging into the memory of people and building a usable past for the present and the future generations. Unless this dimension of Ait Ouahioune’s novel is investigated, the reader risks losing sight of the purpose behind the speaking of the colonial encounter and the resistance to the encroachment on Kabyle territory. The research has tried to accomplish this task by taking its bearings from an eclectic approach combining the anthropological paradigm borrowed from Tillion and Bourdieu, as well as Fanon’s theory on colonial violence. To deal with the dimension of evil and how it shapes the form of the novel, the approach has also appealed to theories about the detective novel. In applying these eclectic approaches, the research has led to the following findings: One, the novel illustrates perfectly Fanon’s ideas that the violence of the colonized against the colonizer is marked by an internalized syndrome, where the colonized turn the violence against one another. Two, colonial violence was met at the historical period cornered by the novel, by resistance of what is called “Les bandits d’honneur”. Three, resistance in the novel is shown to have taken a literary form in its evocation of the figure of Si Mohand Ou Mhand. Four and last, The eternal snow has engaged in the exploitation of the struggle of evil and good, giving a universal dimension to the work and celebrating the triumph of good over the evil brewed in the cauldron of the colonizer and which has managed to destroy the habitus of the Kabyle people as part and the prevail of the Algerian population as a whole. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Literature and Civilization | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.ummto.dz/handle/ummto/29913 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou | |
| dc.subject | anthropology | |
| dc.subject | colonial violence | |
| dc.subject | evil | |
| dc.subject | habitus | |
| dc.subject | resistance | |
| dc.title | Violence and resistance in Ait Ouahioune’s The eternal snow (2023) | |
| dc.type | Thesis |