A Comparative Study of Rudyard Kipling’s Kim (1994) and Yasmina Khadra’s Ce Que Le Jour Doit à La Nuit (2009)
| dc.contributor.author | Ouyahia Lisa | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-25T08:53:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-11-25T08:53:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.description | 63p. ; (+CD-Rom) | |
| dc.description.abstract | The present work is a comparative study of Rudyard Kipling’s Kim (1994) and Yasmina Khadra’s Ce que le jour doit à la nuit (2009). Its main focus is made on the differences as well as similarities between the two aforementioned novels. To reach our objectives, we have made use of some key theoretical concepts borrowed from postcolonial theories put forward by Frantz Fanon in his The wretched of the earth (1963), Black skin, white masks (1986), Edward Said’s Orientalism (2003), and W.E.B Du Bois’s The soul of black folk (2003). As a whole, the dissertation is divided into two main chapters. While the first chapters is devoted to examining the issue of “knowledge and power” as the ultimate weapons of the West, the second chapter is delving on studying “identity” “crisis”, “alienation” and “privilege”. After a detailed discussion, we have come to several findings as the fact that both works highlight on the importance of identity crisis resulting from the two respective colonial systems, namely the British colonialism in the case of Kipling’s Kim and the French colonialism in Khadra’s Ce que le jour doit à la nuit, or the authors’ tendencies to use postcolonial strategies in order to reveal that knowledge and power operate over the colonial and postcolonial subjects. Finally, we may say that the two works contain some similarities at the level of themes and characters’ development, yet, it remains that both authors are highly marked by their divergent attitudes and opinions towards colonial rules and postcolonial issues. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Literature and Civilization | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.ummto.dz/handle/ummto/29026 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Université Mouloud Mammeri tizi Ouzou | |
| dc.subject | Alienation | |
| dc.subject | colonialism | |
| dc.subject | identity | |
| dc.subject | knowledge | |
| dc.subject | orientalism | |
| dc.title | A Comparative Study of Rudyard Kipling’s Kim (1994) and Yasmina Khadra’s Ce Que Le Jour Doit à La Nuit (2009) | |
| dc.type | Thesis |