Naadja Abdeladhim

The Maghrebi novel has witnessed a qualitative shift characterized by a high degree of aesthetics. Novelists are no longer content with recounting traditional and stereotypical issues, but have begun to address profound philosophical and humanistic themes that keep pace with the spirit of the times. Perhaps the most prominent of these is the issue of the self and the other, which this research focuses on addressing, relying on a strategy of cultural criticism in study and analysis. It aims to reveal the features of the self in its various manifestations and its relationship with the other, based on selected Maghrebi novelistic models. Accordingly, the research problem is as follows:

- Has the Maghrebi novelist succeeded in expressing the voice of the self and conveying its reality and struggle with the other to the Arab recipient?