Le corps féminin dans les romans de Rachid Boudjedra. Enjeux d’une écriture subversive
The Female Body in the Novels of Rachid Boudjedra. The Stakes of Subversive Writing

Summary/Abstract: It was not easy, in conservative and modest Maghreb societies, to talk about the body and its representations, let alone make it an object of writing. Writing on the body was such a taboo that respects for the rules of propriety, care for the sensitivity of the reader took precedence over all considerations. However, some subversive writers, including Rachid Boudjedra, will dare to make the body a central component of the novelistic universe, which will determine the functioning of the entire textual device. We will better understand the links between the characters, the relationship between the individual and the community, and the question of values. Hence, the body becomes "the mediator between the intimacy of the Self and the exteriority of the world" (RICOEUR, P, 1990, 372).Taken in various postures, the female body reveals, especially in these writers’, the status of woman in all its complexity and ambivalence: tortured woman, bruised woman, but at the same time desired, eroticized... Our article will focus on the body as a "place of relational and social complexity" (BERNHEIM, G, 1996, 180) in Boudjedra's works. Doing this, we will attempt to provide fair answers to the following questions: How does the body manage to forge a place within the text? What role is reserved for it? We will also wonder if writing does not assume a cathartic and liberating role through resistance to doxa and alienating stereotypes in which it freezes the female body.

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