Cardinal, Marie

Drawing upon three modern novels from various cultural contexts, (Marie Cardinal's The Words to Say It, J. M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians, and Toni Morrison's Beloved), Christ as Madwoman, Beggar, and Black Memory is an effort to speak about Christ in a manner that is r…

This dissertation explores literature from the Pied-Noir community from 1962 to present and examines the written recreation of Algeria in a postcolonial context. The majority of Pieds-Noirs, formerly the French citizens of Algeria or Français d Algérie, left Algeria upon its ind…

This thesis examines intersubjective and therapeutic processes of narrative self-construction as they emerge in three recent women's autobiographies of trauma and healing. Autobiographical narration, the thesis suggests, is an illocutionary act addressed to a reader with whom th…