Literary translation as a means of reconciling conflictual identities : the case of Algerian and French identities

Abstract EN

This research attempts to consider literary translation as a means of reconciling conflictual identities; namely Algerian and French identities.

In order for that a discussion of the identity of texts and translations is provided.

Conflict of identities is identified through a quick review of power relations between the colonizer and the colonized.

Thoughts and views about translation as reconciliation are presented.

Then, reconciliation is sought through a discussion of literary translation stressing Arabic/French translation and the phenomena of writing in French as a form of translating Algerian experience, thus setting the ground for reconciliation in the broadest sense.