Is the Cultural Dialogue between East and West in “The Sirens of Bagdad” by Yasmina Khadra a Utopia? Cover Image

Le dialogue culturel entre l’Orient et l’Occident dans “Les Sirènes de Bagdad” de Yasmina Khadra, une utopie ?
Is the Cultural Dialogue between East and West in “The Sirens of Bagdad” by Yasmina Khadra a Utopia?

Author(s): Chihab Besra
Subject(s): French Literature, Culture and social structure , Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: dialogue; culture; East; West; conflict

Summary/Abstract: In his novel The Sirens of Baghdad, Yasmina Khadra tries to explain how cultural misunderstandings and disparities are at the root of hatred and the tensions that characterize the relationship between East and West. Through the painting of the psychological features of the main character and his reactions in the midst of the atrocities of war, he invites the reader to closely follow this path likely to transform an ambitious and peaceful individual, born of an Eastern society, into a terrorist.

  • Issue Year: 2/2018
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 81-90
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: French