What Maghreb Writers of the XX and XXI Centuries Dream of and Denounce (Essay)

The essay examines distinct patterns in the evolution and history of contemporary Maghreb Francophone literature (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia), in which the employ of French language resulted to be a kind of weapon “seized” from the enemy colonizers. Its new forms of understanding reality are both an opportunity to formulate ideals of a better world order for postcolonial and modern times and the need to expose the flaws of the traditional societies, flaws caused by the reception by these societies of new methods of violence over individuals. These are among the main distinctive features of the Maghreb Francophone literature, which not only opposes the extremism of radical Islam and the challenges of the globalization but also reflects hopes for the triumph of Harmony and Justice.

Maghreb, ideals of colonial and post-colonial eras, modernity, globalization’s challenges, loss of illusions, exposure of socio-political reality, exposure of ethnic-confessional reality, forms of violence, everlasting hope