Le thème du patriarcat dans le théâtre de Fatima Gallaire, dramaturge francophone du Maghreb

Résumé

This paper aims to discover, develop and interpret the thematic, stylistic and dramatic elements of
Fatima Gallaire’s plays which contribute to emerge the patriarchy’s dramatisation as an opportunity of
theatrical and sociological approach of situations of harmonic or problematical relations between fathers and
daughters, woman’s oppression and efforts of feminine emancipation in the Maghrebi or Mediterranean family
and society. The plays which express in a theatrical, morphological and thematic point of view these parameters
and which will form the corpus of our research are the following: ‘Princesses’, ‘Les Co-épouses’, ‘Rimm la
gazelle’, ‘Au cœur la brûlure’, ‘Les Richesses de l’hiver’ and ‘Molly des Sables’. The followed methodology is
based on the approach of the following optics of analysis: the fidelity in the representation of the sociocultural
reality of the patriarchal family in Algeria, the polyvalence of her theatralization, the nature of distance, conflict
or harmony which characterizes the bond between father and daughter and the catharsis’ propositions given by
the playwright. The conclusions’ evaluation ambitions to proof how the approach of patriarchy’s theme in
Fatima Gallaire’s theatre overtakes the simple registration of a concrete social and cultural reality, and
becomes the opportunity to treat timeless and universal situation, such as the claim of the human rights and
liberty, the respect of religious, ethnic and cultural differences, and the restoration of the female value and
respect.