Is there a feminine novel and, if there is, how would you define it? We do not pretend to give the complete answer but we hope that some light will be thrown on the subject in the course of the analysis of various novels written by ladies during the first hundred years (and more!) of feminine enterprises in the fields of literature. Women also wrote sentimental poetry and sentimental comedies, the latter being very close to many novels in inspiration. But, by and large, they struck their most frequent and forceful notes in fiction and this is the main reason for the undertaking of this work Exile in literature is not only a story but also a structure The post-colonial context is complex, complicated, and sometimes hostile. Movement is necessary in order to live, to think, or at the very least to write. Hélène Cixous makes a distinction based on gender (masculine or feminine); belonging (land or territory); parentage (their memory, their history, their authority); and language (first or second language, written or spoken). All things considered, in literature, exile post-colonial depends more on language than on location. That is why it is possible to compare Assia Djebar with Elias Canetti and Kateb Yacine, and Franz Kafka. Literature is not another language, another style: literature is the other language.