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…
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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…
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…
Notre thèse, divisée en quatre chapitres, explore l'intersigne langagier féminin chez quatre romanciers maghrébins contemporains d'expression française que voici: Tahar Ben Jelloun, Assia Djebar, Malika Mokeddem et Abdelhak Serhane. Dans le chapitre premier, nous expliquons, en …
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…
An unresolved issue in African literary studies is whether North and sub-Saharan Africa are disconnected from one another, or whether they share elements that can further our understanding of the cultures from which they emerge. Since the mid-twentieth century, due to growing in…
This dissertation investigates the authorial persona of two prominent French women writers from different ethnic backgrounds---Nathalie Sarraute from Russia and Assia Djebar from Algeria---in a selection of autobiographical texts: Enfance and L'amour, la fantasia . Overcoming th…
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 …
Islamic references and allusions inform the tests of Maghrebian writers from a Muslim background. This study shows how this Islamic intertext (which consists mainly of the Koran and Hadiths, and includes Sufism as well) bear on the overall significance of the works of prominent …
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…
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…