This study examines in Marlene Gorris' De Stilte Rond Christine M. (1982), Desiré Ecaré's Visages de femmes (1985) and Djibril Diop Mambety's La Petite vendeuse de soleil (1999) the western viewer's philosophical transformation into the domain of visionary and participatory spec…
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Postmodernism and postcolonialism are both offsprings of modernity. To be postmodern does not mean to totally obliterate modernity. In postmodernity, however, the illusions of progress, order, universalism, hegemony, are dissipated. Reason, the very foundation on which modernity…
A study of La Rue Cases-Negres--an autobiographical narrative written by Joseph Zobel, a black, French-speaking author born in Martinique,--revealed many of the same social problems encountered in Richard Wright's Black Boy. The decision was made to launch an investigation into …
The historically peaceful and prosperous West African nation of Côte d'Ivoire has been embroiled in an ongoing civil war for the last 12 years. Formerly a French colony, Côte d'Ivoire has a turbulent history of colonization, ethnic divisions, coup d'états, and faulty democratic …
My study examines a group of nine novels and films set in Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal, Cameroon and Gabon written and produced between 1973 and 2006 in which "the West" and its international finance network are depicted as the fundamental contemporary world power that wields a de…
Le présent mémoire a pour but d'illustrer à partir de données bibliographiques couvrant la période 1940–1996 la place faite aux femmes dans la littérature sur le secteur halieutique en Afrique de l'Ouest. Il vise à démontrer, sur une base comparative, comment la variable ethniqu…
Vers / Mouvements is a cross-cultural exploration of movement in contemporary French-language poetry and theater from the 1970-1982. The study focuses on poets Anne-Marie Albiach (France) and Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal), and playwrights Werewere Liking (Cameroon/Ivory Coast)…
In countries of conflict, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) often resort to humanitarian relief. A small number of peace and conflict resolution organizations (P/CROs) engage more directly, through grassroots mediation, elite negotiation and advocacy. This thesis observes th…
This dissertation takes as its point of departure recent work on Orientalism and Africanism which establishes that Europeans have constructed the African in literary and philosophical discourse as Other in opposition to a dominating Western self. It also uses the feminist topos …
Liberalization of West African cocoa markets, following structural adjustment reforms, resulted in the elimination of parastatal marketing boards to promote greater pass-though of world prices to farmers. Concerns about subsequent effects on farmgate prices, farmer income, and m…
Within the generally under-researched topic of civil war, research on the question of the causes of civil war is in a state of confusion. This is due primarily to the persistence of a false dichotomy between material and social-psychological theories, as well as to a tendency to…
In contemporary African literature, the theme of violence unfold in the context of the conflict opposing the Western world to Africa. It is mostly during the colonial and postcolonial periods that theme of blood became prominent in African literature. Since then, the novel has b…
A significant body of literature in Francophone North and West Africa, and the French Antilles describes the pain and pleasure of the indigenous child growing up under colonial rule or in postcolonial societies. In the dissertation, I propose that the literary project of remembe…
Socio-economic development of Africa's human resources is tied to language policies that are undergoing global pressures. Though the languages of colonization are the official and dominant languages of education and communication, African countries recognize the importance of pr…
Saisis par les violences d'actualité, les écrivains de la francophonie se penchent sur les questions de victimisation et de discours mystificateurs, pour éviter que ne sombre dans l'oubli l'être humain placé au centre des conflits, tel que le dirait Milan Kundera. L'être en rela…
This dissertation discussed the political movements which took place throughout Africa in the early 1990. Known diversely as the third liberation of Africa or the awakening of democracy, the movements started as students, political activists and opponents, members of the civil s…
Following the publication of his first novel in 1968. Ahmadou Kourouma was ranked among African's most prestigious authors. The prominence of his works on school and university syllabi, the array of literary awards to his credit, as well as the countless scholarly papers inspire…
The code model of communication theory, which nurtured Bible translation theory, perceived that meaning was encoded in the text. Context did not have a formal place in the theory. Relevance Theory shows that context plays as important a role in communication as the text, and goe…
This dissertation is a hermeneutic reading of four novels by the Ivorian writer, Ahmadou Kourouma: Les Soleils des indépendances , Monnè, outrages et défis, En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages, and Allah n'est pas obligé. The exegesis is based on the assumption that there is…