Résumé:
This thesis uses the feminist theory to analyze Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous
Conditions (1968) and Assia Djebar’s Children of the New World (1988). The study aims to
examine the state of the African women and describe the issue of the double oppression and
injustice they suffer from. It also discusses the different forms that these female characters
resort to in order to fight back such oppression. This work accordingly aims to describe how
Tsitsi Dangarembga and Assia Djebar seek to valorize women’s role in the different societies
they belong to, respectively. Moreover, this thesis reveals the true image of the African
societies being an Algerian or a Zimbabwean, in which, women kept constrained by its
traditional values. Consequently, it examines the various changes that occur to the female
characters’ lives.
