Hadi, HamidaGuerdah, Fatiha2022-03-032022-03-032018Littérature et Approches Interdisciplinaires.https://dspace.ummto.dz/handle/ummto/1675530cm ; 53p.This research paper deals with Yasmina Khadra’s The Swallows of Kabul (2002). For its theoritical implication, we have applied Stephen Greenblatt’s theory of New Historicism (1980-1990). The chief aim of this dessertation is to analyze Khadra’s depiction of the Afghan people under the reign of the Taliban, by relying it to the most pertinent and relevant concepts of New Historicism, such as Power, Subversion and Containment. To achieve our purpose, we borrowed from Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish : The Birth of Prison (1975), and John Brannigan’s New Historicism and Cultural Materialism (1998). Our work is devided into three chapters. The first one explores the Textuality of History and Historicity of Text and how they attached to the tale of Khadra. In this chapter we tempted to show how he textualized history and how he historicized the text. The second chapter uncovers the concept of Power and its types, sheding light to how it is exercised by the Taliban upon the characters of The Swallows of Kabul. The third and last chapter exposes two main concepts which are Subversion and Containment. In this chapter we explained how characters subverted the laws, and how the Taliban fight to contain them and their behaviors.enThesis