The image of Algeria emerges as a female body dominated by Algerian patriarchs and French colonizers in The Words to Say It by Marie Cardinal and So Vast the Prison by Assia Djebar. Cardinal`s novel tells the story of an Algerian-born French woman undergoing psychotherapy for her madness, which derives from various wounds suppressed in her unconsciousness, wounds generated by the sociopolitical constraints on the female body sexualized in relation to men and particularly by the bloodshed during the Algerian War of Independence. Similar to pied-noir Marie Cardinal, native Algerian Assia Djebar focuses on the awakening of bodily responses in Muslim women to patriarchal domination in Islamic society. From exploring the female protagonist`s memory of her unfulfilled love affair to critically attacking the terror of Algerian civil unrest, Djebar highlights the significance of female corporeality as a counter- discourse against Islamist monolithic ideology, thus re-inscribing the life of women from the present and the past into Algerian realities. Both writers focus on the awakening of women`s bodily responses to male oppression in authoritarian culture. This study examines how their writings create a bodily discourse that creates a new female self- awareness related to language and history.