This dissertation examines the way in which four female writers negotiate between “I” and “we” within their autobiographical writing. Recent scholarship on women's autobiography has suggested that women do not write “I” as a purely individual, unitary concept. Critics such as Fr…
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My dissertation explores rewritings of orientalism in contemporary Algerian Francophone literature. Examining nineteenth-century French and contemporary Algerian texts, I argue that Assia Djebar and Kateb Yacine's respective references to Eugène Fromentin and Gustave Flaubert ar…
Multidiscipline has definitely marked the journey of Assia Djebar. The Algerian French writer has devoted interest in literature as well as the arts. Her infatuation with the arts hasn’t been without influence towards her writing. The fact is above all remarkable in the level of…
This dissertation analyzes selected works by Assia Djebar (L'Amour, la fantasia; Oran, Langue morte; Femmes d'Alger dans leur appartement and Ces Voix qui m'assiègent), Leïla Sebbar ( Lettres parisiennes; Shérazade: 17 ans, brune, frisée, les yeux verts) and Malika Mokeddem (Les…
This dissertation examines how the novels of Mary Shelley, Samuel Beckett, and Assia Djebar explore the complicity of Enlightenment humanism and imperialism in different models of modernity. The paradox of Enlightenment humanism was that, in positing a universal, human subject a…
This project focuses on differences in nationalist discourse regarding women and the way female writers conceptualized the experience of women in three contexts. These three contexts are: the middle class Muslim reform movement, the Algerian revolution, and the Partition of Indi…
From its beginnings in the 1920s, literature in French from Africa has been set against a backdrop of struggle and indelibly marked by conflict. Indeed, over the course of these last 80 years, whether striving for the creation of new independent nations or participating in natio…
This dissertation considers the role of Tamazight (Berber), the language of the original inhabitants of North Africa, especially how it figures into the literary landscape of the Maghreb, particularly Morocco and Algeria. These two countries are the focus since recognition of Ta…
This dissertation examines the works of three North African women writers and their use and reworking of the French exotic tradition. Because "la femme orientate" is one of the most powerful and enduring creations of French exoticism, I explore how Assia Djebar, Leïla Sebbar and…
Ma thèse de doctorat porte sur l'oeuvre littéraire de l'écrivaine algérienne de langue française Assia Djebar. Le format de la thèse n'est pas conventionnel car il se veut une sorte d'écho, de diapason à l'oeuvre djebarienne dans une perspective esthétique et poétique. Le titre …
My dissertation engages in a close study of the autobiographical writings of three contemporary Francophone writers from the Maghreb: Assia Djebar, Hélène Cixous, and Abdelkébir Khatibi. I focus on music not only as a "theme" pulsing throughout their fictional, poetic, and theor…
Qur'anic Invocations: Narrative Temporalities in Twentieth Century Maghrebi Literature investigates the dialogic relationship between literary and theological discourse in modern Arabophone and Francophone literature of the Maghreb. The novels of al-Tahir Wattar, Assia Djebar, D…
While Francophone North-African literature and more specifically the work of Assia Djebar have been studied in depth both internationally and nationally (i.e. France) as falling into the definition of Post-colonial studies, my work will focus on the use of music as a technique o…
My project examines how Nawal El Saadawi of Egypt and Assia Djebar of Algeria treat the national allegory that makes use of images of nation as woman and land as woman as well as woman as land and woman as nation. My question is what these two women do with this Arab narrative t…
This study examines the works of five non-western writers whose fiction is primarily concerned with the relationship between Islam and the West, and historical and cultural constructions of Muslim and western identities. The works of Tariq Ali, Assia Djebar, Amin Maalouf, Kanan …