Yasmina Khadra’s A quoi rêvent les loups (1999) and Paula Jolin’s In The Name Of God (2007): A Comparative Study.
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2019
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Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou
Abstract
This research paper is a comparative study of Yasmina Khadra’s A quoi rêvent les loups
(1999) and Paula Jolin’s In the Name of God (2007). It examines the themes of radicalization,
violence, and political corruption in the already cited novels. To achieve the intended results
we borrowed concepts from John L. Esposito’s The Islamic Threat (1992) and Frantz Fanon’s
theory of revolutionary violence as put in his book The Wretched of the Earth (1963). Our
choice of these theoretical frameworks is motivated by the fact that they have covered nearly
all the aspects of radicalism, violence and political corruption. We have divided our
discussion into three chapters. The first chapter tackles the idea of corruption within
governments that originated from the conflicts between the Islamists and the Algerian and
Syrian authorities. The second chapter analyses the process of radicalization as it is depicted
in the two novels, since both of the main characters in the two narratives share radical ideas,
which are motivated by the chaos and the struggle against political corruption in their
countries. The last chapter encompasses two types of violence that are displayed in the two
novels, which are: the violence suffered by the oppressed and the violence caused by the
oppressed. After analyzing the two novels, we conclude that Nafa and Nadia share the same
fate throughout their lives. Second, due to psychological troubles and socio-economic
difficulties, Nadia and Nafa become involved in violence and barbaric acts. Third, Jolin and
Khadra consider that the political corruption in Algeria and Syria as playing a leading role in
the spread of violence and anarchy in both countries.
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Literature and Civilisation