Leïla Sebbar, l’écriture en français comme passage entre enjeux identitaires

Abstract

In Francophone studies, the choice of language for literary creation is a recurrent theme that can be explored in authors such as Leïla Sebbar. In this paper, the analysis of Lettres parisiennes, Histoires d’exil (1986), La Seine était rouge, Paris, octobre 1961 (1999), and Je ne parle pas la langue de mon père (2003) will allow us to focus on the duality of her Franco-Algerian origins, as a reflection of both the linguistic and cultural conflicts present in her creative universe.