| Summary: | At the conclusion of Mohammed Dib’s ground-breaking representation of the Algerian War of Independence, Qui se souvient de la mer, at what might be adjudged to represent the final victory of the feminine force that the sea represents, the text attests to the ineluctable bond between ‘la mer’ and ‘la mère’ in the perspective of its representation. While she wipes away the dusty remnants of the crumbled colonial city and its inhabitants, she maintains her duty of care, her maternal credentials. Here, as at many other points in Dib’s narrative, the reader is invited to recall the French nautical saying ‘La mer berce comme la mère’.
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