Racism and Ostracism in Jean Raspail The Camp of the Saints

Rasheed, Lamiaa Ahmed; Rasheed, Lamia Ahmed

doi:10.37654/aujll.2022.177711

	Racism and Ostracism in Jean Raspail The Camp of the Saints
Anbar University Journal of Languages and Literature
Article 27, Volume 14, Issue 3, 2022, Pages 660-676 PDF (344.92 K)
Document Type: Research Paper
DOI: 10.37654/aujll.2022.177711
Authors
Lamiaa Ahmed Rasheed^* ; Lamia Ahmed Rasheed
Tikrit University/ College of Education for Women
Abstract
Issues of race and racism have been integrated part of Western countries for centuries ago. It is difficult to deal with different cultures and races in these countries because they were originally established on the idea that other races and cultures are inferior to them and they need to liberate them of their dark savagery. This old belief still finds its echo in today's European nations and it manifests in the different images of racism toward immigrants and Non-European individuals. The current study aims to discuss notions of racism and ostracism in the novel The Camp of the Saints by the French novelist Jean Raspail. It will adapt the theory of great replacement as an approach to analyze and explore the effects of European racism and ostracism towards non-western immigrants. This theory relies upon the belief that the white European race is under attack from the growing population of immigrants in Europe who might soon replace the white race to turn Europe into a container of non-western ethnicities. This theory has been adopted in political speech as well as in social and demographic planning, and the novel The Camp of the Saint, represents the core beliefs of this theory.
Keywords
racism; ostracism; Camp of the saints; great replacement

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