Spatial Narrative of Oran between the foreigner and the Indigenous

Abstract

Oran is a city where two stories of liberation are told: the symbolic story in Albert Camus' The Plague (1947), and the realistic one, represented by the Algerian War of Independence, in What the Day Owes the Night by Yasmina Khadra, published in 2008. Through spatial narrative analysis based on comparative study tools, the paper shows how the city of Oran, in both novels, is represented as a real protagonist, examining the imagological differences between foreign and indigenous point of view.