The Ambiguous Fate of a Pied-Noir-Albert Camus and Colonialism

The Ambiguous Fate of a Pied-Noir Albert Camus and Colonialism Mangesh Kulkarni By locating the political unconscious of L'Etranger in Albert Camus' complicity in the French colonial project to inhabit, possess and represent Algeria, the colonial critiques of the text overlook the existential preoccupations in the novel which are far more reflective of the times in which the novel was produced.