رواية "الاعتداء" (2006) لياسمينة خضرا: "الإرهابية" المسلمة، السرد الخيالي في مواجهة خطاب الاستشراق النسوي وأجندته.

الملخص

This article reads Yasmina Khadra’s The Attack (2007) as a counter-narrative to the dominant feminist orientalist discourse in Western scholarship and media. This study focuses on the political and nationalist motivations of female terrorism in Palestine as represented in the novel. While feminism emphasizes women’s equal capacity for violence, this stance is largely denied when the subject of violence is Muslim women, who, rather than seen as political actors with agency, are persistently represented as victims of patriarchy, religion, and manipulation. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of power/knowledge and Said’s theory of Orientalism, the study argues that feminist orientalist narratives depoliticize and dehistorize the Palestinian Muslim women’s violent resistance by reinterpreting it in terms of victimization, sexual exploitation, or cultural deficiency. In contrast, Khadra’s novel provides a counter narrative through situating female terrorism within concrete political grievances, demonstrating that these self-sacrifice acts, while not explicitly feminist, challenge patriarchal and colonial structures. Applying Neo-historicist reading of literary texts—textual and contextual analysis of the novel—guided by criteria that identify representations of women agency, political context of violence, and social meaning, the article reads the novel within broader ideological struggles, seeking to demonstrate that Khadra challenges hegemonic constructions that justify neo-imperialist interventions, Israelis occupation and dispossession of the natives.