'The powerful writing strategies of Assia Djebar and Toni Morrison' 'Differentiation of the depictions of otherness through literature'

Abstract

The aim of this thesis is to show how the writing strategies present in the literary works of two authors, Assia Djebar and Toni Morrison, have the potential to lay bare the problematic issues of determination and homogenisation by using a plurality of perspectives and differentiation of otherness as its line of thought. Furthermore, this thesis attempts to show how this line of thought represented in Assia Djebar’s and Toni Morrison’s literature dismantles the official narrative of a nation’s history and goes beyond the traditional idea of the nation determined by political, social and geographical boundaries.