The Algerian Novel, the Colonial Legacy and the Post-Colonial Discourse

The Algerian novel tackles many subjects related to social, economic, cultural and political issues in Algeria before the revolution, during and after the independence. Before the 1954 revolution, it got an explicit discourse pertinent to discussing social issues such as homelessness, misery and poverty and described immigration, unemployment and injustice and oppression against Algerians. It also focused on the themes of resistance and reflected Algerians' lives. This paper raises the following research questions: In what ways the Algerian history affects its Novel? What discourse had been portrayed by the Algerian novel in this period? In what ways the Algerian novel is considered as a 'therapeutic' device to the Eurocentric vision to the colonial legacy? Using the history as a reference, it is worth assuming the following hypothesis: The hypothesis is that the Algerian novel plays a 'therapeutic' role in reconstructing the Algerian memory via remembering and diagnosing the 'force' used by the colonizer to impose a 'false' vision to the history of the hunt. During the revolution, novelists had an important role to play in the Algerian scene throughout their writings.