Les Stratégies défensives de l’entre-deux dans Georgette de Farida Belghoul

In Georgette, Farida Belghoul highlights the problematic of biculturalism through events experienced by her heroine with Algerian roots.  Georgette is a seven year girl, daughter of Algerian immigrants; she has difficulties of biculturalism and remains constantly silent. She faces the dilemma of many immigrants who live the contrast between their parents' Algerian heritage and their French schooling. She faces also many problems which belong to the whole system of education.  As a result, the girl finds herself victim to contradictory forces. In fact, Farida Belgoul, one of the prominent Beur writers, discusses this issue through learning how to write in French at school, an institution represented by the figure of the teacher who turned the girl's original culture upside down. Consequently, this contradiction led to a form of imitation that leaves the girl belonging neither to her original culture nor to the French culture.  As a result, the child tries to blend imagination and reality together in an attempt to find a way out of this duality; she adopts many unfamiliar defensive strategies in order to overcome this conflict and constitute her own identity.