Représentations stéréotypiques du terrorisme chez Yasmina Khadra

Stereotypical representations of terrorism in Yasmina Khadra's work

Abstract

Many of Yasmina Khadra's narratives recount terrorism that has shaken various countries, such as
Iraq, Afghanistan, and Algeria. The author presents similar scenarios, describing through a tragic register the
spiral of violence that dehumanizes the men who adhere to a new Islamist ideology. These novels converge in
presenting similar themes, giving rise to lexical fields and associations that depict identical images repeating
from one text to another. From one novel to another, a stereotypical writing style becomes perceptible
through structural, rhetorical, and thematic redundancy, which we aim to reveal through a descriptive
approach to the discursive processes contained in the two texts forming our corpus.