This article examines three novels sustained by the adolescence-work of their authors, Assia Djebar, Faïza Guène and Jonas Hassen Khemiri. Inscribed in the conflicts between the languages they will organize, these novels act as a “cultural laboratory” in which to treat the cultural trauma of relations between Maghreb and Europe: they work on historicization in language and complexify the process of intergenerational retransmission.

Adolescence, 2015, 33, 3, 655-678.