This interdisciplinary study explores how Driss Chraïbi's L'Homme du Livre (1995), Assia Djebar's Loin de Médine (1991), and Anissa Boumediène's La fin d'un monde (1991) present accounts of particular historical moments in early Islam. This study explores the role of the imagina…
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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…
This dissertation examines the rhetorical articulation of home in the work of Mahmoud Darwish and Assia Djebar. In their attempt to reconstitute the trope of home differently from its inherited configurations, the two writers recall moments of interruption in their literary heri…
This dissertation examines the intersection of aesthetics and politics through the prism of the uneasy relationship between formal literary experimentation and the notion of engagement in French and Algerian novels written during the politically turbulent period framed by the Al…
Postcolonial migrants appear in European space as the figure of a paradox, continuously re-insinuating the problem of cultural multiplicity and of political borders between citizens and others. This work is an attempt to reformulate the terms of this encounter as played out in t…
The relationship existing between the state of exile and the establishment of identity based on gender and hybridity was investigated. Three contemporary Algerian female writers in exile, Assia Djebar, Leïla Sebbar, and Malika Mokeddem, were studied to determine if the state of …
This dissertation explores alternative ways of representing memory and history in novels written by four authors with connection to the Maghreb. I examine how these texts question the necessity of basing memory on an unambiguous understanding of past events and instead function …
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…
Dans la première partie (section création), je présente L'Aventure au pays des fenêtres, un ensemble de nouvelles de mode réaliste, se déroulant à notre époque, faisant appel à divers types de narrateurs et liées par une toile unificatrice qui est, me semble-t-il, l'âme humaine …
This study deals with the deconstruction of the representation of the Orient in the francophone contemporary novel and short story. It shows how francophone literary texts mirror carnivalesque praxis in their representation of the Orient. I adopt a comparative approach to examin…
Based on a series of close textual readings inspired by the phenomenological approach and especially the poetic readings of Gaston Bachelard, the objective of this dissertation is to show how space allows three major contemporary Francophone writers to reveal their up-rooted and…
This dissertation is both a theoretical proposal about exile and identity and an engaged reading of novels by Assia Djebar and Nabile Farès. The gist of my argument is that Djebar and Farès bring together the specificities of the Algerian—and more generally the francophone—write…
Sounding the Text proposes a methodology called sounding, an interpretative gesture of listening for sounds and measuring silences in cultural texts in a way that articulates an ethics of committed listening. Sounding counters the silencing of marginalized Francophone voices wit…
This study considers the work of three francophone writers working in the cultural space between France and Algeria. Authors Assia Djebar, Leila Sebbar and Feriel Assima each explore what it means to belong to a particular community and how one defines identity in such a group a…
In the wake of a twentieth century marked by the Occupation, the Algerian War, the AIDS crisis, and the aftermath of these events, the debates surrounding French identity have acquired particular urgency. French novelists, meanwhile, have increasingly turned to first person narr…
Through three written texts, L'amour, la fantasia, Vaste est la prison, and Le blanc de l'Algerie by Assia Djebar, and two films, Afrique, je te plumerai by Jean-Marie Teno and Lumumba: la mort du prophete by Raoul Peck, I examine a "post-colonial" pre-occupation with history. I…
The fiction of Algerian writer Assia Djebar, from La Soif (1957) to La Femme sans sepulture (2001) is set in cities, notably Algiers, the legendary White City which, like the blank page, provides space for Djebarian characters to inscribe their new history, but which also repres…