Literary Criticism

Is this text (The Stranger) an example of Camus resisting French coloinalism or supporting it? How would Kulkarni answer? How would you answer?

According to Kulkarni, The Stranger is an example of him not resisting French colonialism. He believed that Camus wanted Algeria to be mixed between the Europeans and the Arabs.
However, as Kulkarni stated, "In the 1930's when LE was conceived, no great anomaly was involved in adopting such a position" (Kulkarni 1529). There would be no reason for him to write about this situation. According to Kulkarni, Camus did not support French colonalism, but he was not writing his novel to protest their ruling.

I would disagree. I think Camus was writing in protest of French colonialism. As Kulkarni stated, he was in favor of the two groups of people being mixed. However, there is evidence that there were still problems. One of them that he focused on was the laws focus on Europeans versus Arabs. In the literary criticism, "In practice, no French court in Algeria would have condemned a European to death for shooting an Arab who had drawn a knife on him and who had shortly before stabbed another European" (Kulkarni 1528). Camus writes directly against this, as Meursault is convicted for this same crime. In his perfect world, the two would be seen as equals. In this sence, LE was written to protest this difference in the two groups of people.