The Concept of Mimicry with Reference to the Image of the Other in Terms of Otherness and Identity: An Analytical Literary Study in Feraoun’s “Land and Blood”

Abstract

This research work aims to examine the work of Mouloud Freaoun Land and Blood using specific postcolonial concepts that are namely, ‘otherness’, ‘identity’ and ‘mimicry’ so as to shed light on the political, social and cultural colonial impact on the writings of the authors of the 50s. Among this generation, Mouloud Feraoun was selected as a sample of French language Algerian writers. It, at a large scale, starts from general with postcolonialism influential strategies. It is, then, limited to the Algerian context encompassed with a detailed study of the novel by analysing selected extracts from the novel Land and Blood.