Women and Colonialism in the Spartan Court Novel

Abstract

The narrative is a literary discourse that addresses human issues by narrating their
events within an artistic framework that blends reality with the addition of imagination.
Among the most important of these issues is the issue of liberation, which is the crown
of humanity. If it is lost, dignity and self are lost. The novelist describes the brutality
and tyranny of the colonizer if he comes to a country, from which neither the old nor
the young, male nor female is spared. In this article, I focus on the suffering of women
from the torments inflicted upon them by the colonizer, represented in the character of
Douja within the novel The Spartan Court by Abdelwahab Aissaoui. This suffering is
divided into two categories: as a human being, such as illness, poor living conditions,
and ignorance, and as a woman, such as loss of honor and exploitation in prostitution.