Lieux pluriels de l’identité ou lieux d’une identité plurielle? La réécriture de l’espace comme entre-deux socioculturel dans les romans de Vénus Khoury-Ghata et de Malika Mokeddem

The following essay consists of a comparative study of a selection of novels by francophone writers Vénus Khoury-Ghata and Malika Mokeddem. It is based on the way the space context is rendered in literary modes, aiming at producing a cultural paradox that puts the two authors into a socio-cultural entre-deux. The need of expressing themselves through images that are different from the assimilated culture stands out through the centrality of the native landscape, that has an active role. The rewritten space becomes a chronologically connoted place where identity is sought, sometimes marked by ambivalent characteristics.