The exile of naturalization and the fundamentalist bubble in Yasmina Khadra’s the attack

Abstract EN

Terrorism has always been a prominent political subject and after September 2001, it became a highly influential issue to be dissected through various artistic and literary products.

literary manuscripts endeavored to portray extremism through the selection of characters and the construction of events from a specific perspective.

western cultures draw a falsified version of Islam when connecting it to extremist fundamentalism at the time where Islam denies all kinds of violence against human and nonhuman beings.

the Algerian francophone writer Yasmina Khadra has effectively depicted the struggle of exiled and naturalized citizens and the state of inbetweenness they behold as long as they live between two lands though they truly belong to neither.

in his novel entitled the attack, Khadra manipulates certain autobiographical sketches to assimilate his own identity dilemma with his protagonist’s.

the present paper investigates the gap between extremism and resistance and it explores the myth of integration of the ‘other’ inside the colonizing community.

the theoretical section introduces the main concepts of the work including fundamentalism, naturalization and the terrorist novel whereas the analytical section explores the writer’s portrayal of the attack and the paradoxical integration of the Palestinian couple inside the Israeli community.

the paper aims at clarifying that the terrorist discourse has no significance in Islam and that violence is not the language of Muslims.