Fatima Bakhaï’nin Dounia Adlı Romanında Osmanlı İmparatorluğu Dönemindeki Cezayirli Kadınlar
Algerian Women in the Ottoman Empire Period in Fatima Bakhaï’s Novel Entitled Dounia

Summary/Abstract: Fatima Bakhaï who takes place amongst the writers of Francophone Algerian literature who are very few worked in Europe and in Turkey published her novel entitled Dounia in 1995. In her novel, Bakhaï tells about the historical, social and political changes that took place in Algeria from the end of the period of Ottoman Empire rule in Algeria to the time when the French colonialists took over the country, through the life of a young girl named Dounia. Thus, while the end of the Ottoman Empire, the attempts of the French to capture Algeria and the victory they reached form the historical background of the novel, the daily life of Dounia and of the Algerian people constitute the fiction of the work. In her novel, which consists of two separate parts, the author depicts women who, on the one hand, submit to the traditional order of society unconditionally and are condemned to silence throughout their lives. On the other hand, she writes well-educated women like Dounia, who rebel against the patriarchal order and the stereotypes of the society in which they live. Indeed, she narrates Algerian society through both historical and fictional characters. In this context, the women in Fatima Bakhaï’s novel Dounia are examined in parallel with the historical and social changes in Algeria in this study.

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