Religion, a blurring element of borders of the in-between in Histoire de ma vie Fadhma Aïth Mansour Amrouche

Abstract

When two identities oppose each other on the same ground, in a conflictual relationship borne by the context of colonization,
religion often plays the role of a complicating factor in the relations between the same and the other. In the autobiography
of Fadhma Aïth Mansour Amrouche, histoire de ma vie, this complexity has the confusing consequence of blurring the
identity borders of the character-narrator-author. The betweentwo of identity, that takes shape in it, is all the more special in
that it does not confront two geographical spaces. It was forged in the limits of the only kabyle cultural space, contained in the
Algerian territory. Fadhma Amrouche practiced his Christian religion in a Muslim environment. This kind of interweaving has
helped to make the non-physical borders of the between-two difficult to delimit. We will see in this article how religion can
nourish this complexity which is amplified by a double rejection of the character-narrator and how this complexity can be
translated in the religious path of the narrator. We will also show this religion which made of Fadhma Aïth Mansour
Amrouche a preliminary personage stuck in the between-two.