Questions of Apprenticeship in African and Caribbean Narratives: Gender, Journey, and Development examines African and Caribbean narratives that follow the apprenticeships of young protagonists while simultaneously critiquing postcolonial development politics. The novels and fil…
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Les autres voleuses is a study about écriture : the textual construction of identity through writing, language and voice; more specifically, it is a study about a “feminine language”: a strategic concept used as a trope for writing against hegemonic and mainstream constructions …
This dissertation explores the significance of alterity in the works of Albert Camus and Assia Djebar. Using the philosophy of Emmanuel Lévinas as a theoretical foundation, I argue that both authors seek to establish a paradigm for the relationship with the other which preserves…
This dissertation analyzes the representation of space in six works of literature set in North Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. My readings purport to interpret the modalities of “cognitive mapping” elaborated by each text, generated by the authors' confront…
In my dissertation I propose a stylistic analysis of literary representations of hybrid identities in four postcolonial Francophone novels written by female authors: Georgette! by the French-Algerian author Farida Belghoul, En attendant le bonheur by Guadeloupean author Maryse C…
My dissertation addresses the autobiographical art and literature of postcolonial Francophone women from the Maghreb and Southeast Asia including Leila Sebbar, Assia Djebar, Marguerite Duras, Theresa Cha, and Hélène Cixous. Adopting a comparative approach, I consider how these a…
This dissertation foregrounds discursive strategies of empowerment with regard to language, colonization and female subjugation. I analyze two contemporary, post-colonial fictional responses to French colonialism in Algeria in order to reformulate the relationship between violen…
This dissertation analyzes the different ways in which Algeria and Algerian identity are imagined in the work of four Algerian authors: Louis Bertrand, Albert Camus, Kateb Yacine and Assia Djebar. Although the struggle for Algeria was fought on multiple terrains—militarily, poli…
This dissertation began with the question, “What do we learn about the status of national identity from our analysis of the works of postcolonial francophone women writers and filmmakers?” As I began reading the novels and seeing the films of Assia Djebar, Malika Mokeddem and Ya…
In the process of reading, modern literary texts often change shape. The myth of Proteus, the ancient sea-god whose disguises ware meant to deceive his followers, has offered me an analogy which has brought into focus the challenging task of the reader constantly provoked to dec…
The term “liminality” originated in the work of two socioanthropologists, Arnold van Gennep and Victor Turner; it is descriptive of the middle phase in a rite of passage. Whereas the “betwixt and between” transitional pattern is temporary in tribal societies, it often becomes a …
The works of Algerian author Assia Djebar and Litvak writer Icchokas Meras lie at the centre of this study. In it I consider the texts of Djebar and Meras as texts of minor literature, using Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature as my starting poin…
Assia Djebar has benefited from a rare set of circumstances in her native Algeria to gain access to a position of discursive freedom practically unknown to the vast majority of her sister citizens. However, her French-speaking narratives are not limited to a personal search for …
This dissertation examines feminine subjectivity and the relation of the feminine subject to “home” and “nation” in five late twentieth-century Francophone women's novels. The primary texts are: Simone Schwarz-Bart's Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle (1972), Maryse Condé's Trave…
This dissertation, entitled Beyond Postcolonial discourse: New problematics of Feminine identity in Contemporary Francophone Literature, focuses on contemporary Francophone texts written by authors from North Africa; notably Tahar Ben Jelloun, Assia Djebar and Leila Sebbar. Thes…
The aim of this study is to investigate identity politics as they are delineated in the Maghrebian Francophone novel. Maghrebian authors who have chosen to write in the language of the erstwhile colonizer are all the product of a bilingual and bicultural society. In the light of…
The main contribution of this dissertation is to assess the inhibition Maghrebian characters and writers (Assia Djebar and Leila Sebbar in this case) acquire which becomes self-censorship as they witness the voyeur turning them into "sex objects of consumption" and become defens…
This dissertation examines a selection of fictional texts by Marguerite Duras, Andre Gide, Assia Djebar and Tahar ben Jelloun. In my readings of these colonial and post-colonial narratives, I explore the textual strategies which transform marginalized positions based on colonial…
This dissertation, "Moving Pictures: Gender, Vision, and Travel from Colonial Algeria to Contemporary France," explores the construction of gender through visual representation in French colonial and postcolonial contexts. I examine a selection of texts spanning from nineteenth-…