"This volume explores and challenges the extensive possible meanings and semantic connotations of the stain, including dirt, blood, dye, clue, symptom, shadow, smudge, memory, crack, trace and blindspot. The roles, functions, workings and unworkings of stains are interrogated ac…
Un ouvrage pédagogique qui aide à comprendre les règles de la langue italienne. Explique les grandes catégories (noms, verbes, syntaxe, etc.), énonce les règles fondamentales, donne de nombreux exemples avec des encadrés sur les points essentiels à retenir. Comporte une centaine…
by Frenette, Yves, St-Hilaire, Marc, Rivard, Etienne
fromAtlas historique du Québéc
by Britton, Celia, Munro, Martin
fromOnline access: OAPEN Open Research Library (ORL)
The Francophone Caribbean and the American South are sites born of the plantation, the common matrix for the diverse nations and territories of the circum-Caribbean. This book takes as its premise that the basic configuration of the plantation, in terms of its physical layout an…
by Goussé, Jean-Louis, Jovanović, Dragoslav
fromAssimil évasion, Langues de poche
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…
The Maghreb Goes Abroad seeks to broaden and nuance our understanding of francophone North Africa by examining the ways in which some of its most well known literary and cultural works and figures have navigated a global market. This project analyzes the transnational movements …
Orality or Literature? That was the question that led to this dissertation. The central topic around which that project was generated is the epic stories sung by griots like Djéliba Badjé and Djado Sékou. Though this was just the tip of the iceberg, it became obvious from listen…
Since 1950, autobiographical fiction has been the preferred genre for many North African writers of French expression. Assia Djebar's and Abdelkebir Khatibi's autobiographical narratives distinguish themselves from the earlier examples of the genre in that they consciously chall…
A significant body of literature in Francophone North and West Africa, and the French Antilles describes the pain and pleasure of the indigenous child growing up under colonial rule or in postcolonial societies. In the dissertation, I propose that the literary project of remembe…
This dissertation considers the work of Driss Chraibi and Tahar Djaout, two Francophone writers from the Maghreb, in relation to the theme of rewriting. The Maghrebi literature from which the complex work of these writers emerges is a hybrid cultural context in which multiple la…
This work examines the role of nostalgia in texts by Judeo-Maghrebian women writers who write retrospectively about their lives in North Africa. I study authors from Algeria (Rachel Kahn, Myriam Ben, Hélène Cixous and Annie Cohen), Tunisia (Annie Goldmann and Nine Moati), and Mo…
Anthropologists, sociologists and students of culture study food, eating and cuisine because they can provide insight into gender, power and even economic relations that structure a society. The way that people react to, think about and write about this most basic form of consum…
I propose that literary cannibalism occurs when Aimé Césaire takes Shakespeare's The Tempest and gives us Une tempête ; when Boubacar Boris Diop takes on Prosper Mérimée by re-writing Tamango as Le temps de Tamango ; when Assia Djebar seeks to right history in L'amour, la fantas…
