Beauvoir, Simone de

In the field of literary production, women's autobiographical writing has been one of the most powerful means of artistic expression. Life-writing is a genre of ambiguity and paradox intertwined with some of the most fundamental questions of literary studies. Within the domain o…

This dissertation will investigate the nature and meaning of the quest for the female self in Simone de Beauvoir's Les Belles Images, Toni Morrison's Sula and Nawal el Saadawi's Two Women in One. The main goal is to delineate a common experience intensely communicated by women w…

In the decade from 1939 to 1949, French society underwent extreme social and political upheaval. My project looks at this particular decade in which questions pertaining to fathers and fatherhood arose as a product of the war and the occupation, and argues that national anxiety …

In this dissertation I explain the transition from modernism to postmodernism through the study of the French existentialist novel. I follow theories that demonstrate that the latter owes its success to historiographic metafiction. By setting off the aporias that deeply penetrat…