Les femmes entre soumission et le droit de réagir et d’agir chez Yasmina Khadra

Abstract

In what follows, we examine the image of women that Yasmina Khadra presents in the cited novels. Women are portrayed both as inhibitors and as catalysts. The narrator's mother is a weak, passive, dependent person who remains "silent" before her husband. She is a product of her time, where ancestral traditions impose this submission. This situation is experienced by Bahia and Faten. As for others, it is with courage and determination that they have chosen the freedom to control their bodies, their thoughts, and their movements. They have defied the "forbidden" through education and their open-mindedness toward the evolution of the world. Farah, a doctor, lives with a companion in Baghdad, far from her village. Sihem, who blows herself up for the Palestinian Cause without asking her husband's approval. Soria and Nedjma, without knowing each other, drive a revolutionary leader to his death. Khadra, through the voice of Commissioner Llob, remains open to the evolution of women's personalities, whom they judge to be intelligent, devoted, and courageous. He finds them more capable of playing leading roles and encourages them to free themselves from the constraints imposed by men.