Female identity at the crossroads of cultures and generations in Entre-deux Je : Algérienne ? Française ? Comment choisir... by Souâd Belhaddad
The postcolonial phenomenon of cultural hybridization between France and the Maghreb has changed the discourse on national integration. Taking part in the contemporary debates around political issues of young people of North African origin in France, the work of Souâd Belhaddad opens up fertile avenues of reflection on female identity at the crossroads of cultures and generations. The discursive manipulations deployed in the autobiographical narrative offer perspectives that overthrow the very foundation of hegemonic thoughts, structures of domination, and racist paradigms internalized not only by the French society, but also and above all by the Maghreb community which reproduces within the family circle the oppression they experience outside. Mechanisms of resistance to these forms of alienation suggest a new vision of the place occupied by women in the Franco-Maghreb mix and though literature.