A critique to mouloud Feraoun’s vision to colonialism from clear ‘Ambivalence’ to implicit criticism

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This paper aims at demistifying feraoun's critique of colonialism and investigates to what extent he shows 'initial ambivalence' towards his French education, language, culture and the French people and, by extension, towards colonialism in general in his early novels (le fils du pauvre, les chemins qui montent, la terre et le sang and mainly les jours kabyles).

it also investigates how his denunciation of colonialism started 'implicit' and became 'crying' and more radical in la cité des roses and journal.

this paper explores the evolution of Feraoun's critique of French colonialism and its pitfalls.

research findings affirm that Feraoun's writings prove to carry underlying philosophical insights, rather than mere descriptions.

to a large extent, his works are not straightforward descriptions of some forgotten hills, but carriers of genuine messages based on Algerian national and identical constants.