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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L'imagerie de l'Orient dans la littérature occidentale a été bien étudiée dans le monde universitaire anglophone et francophone : comment l'Occident voit-il l'Orient, ou bien « l'Orient vu par l'Occident ». Cependant, les études qui partent dans la direction opposée, c'est-à-dir…
This dissertation examines nineteenth century French and twentieth century Francophone texts in which the themes of colonization and adoption intersect. I first examine nineteenth century literary texts in which a mythological conception of French identity takes shape; this iden…
This dissertation explores embodiment in space through the narration of war, focusing on war novels written in French by authors from sub-Saharan Africa during the period from 1974 to 2001. This spatial approach comes from my finding that the majority of the texts focused on sit…
My dissertation, "A l'école du français: Politiques coloniales de la langue 1830-1944," confronts current debates surrounding multilingualism, the language of instruction, and the rewriting of history in former colonial sites. Applying historical, educational and socio-linguisti…
The Music of Voice examines the influence of music on twentieth-century literary theory and fiction. Bringing contemporary novels into dialogue with Said's notion of counterpoint, Bakhtin’s metaphorical polyphony, and other critical theories, this dissertation reevaluates author…
Starting with a contextual characterization of the concepts of "women", and "traditions", this dissertation examines the position of women facing African traditions, particularly through some of their practical manifestations: excision, polygamy and levirate. This dissertation f…
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 studies the critical contribution of Haitian social thought and literature to the field of French anthropology. Specifically, it looks at the works of a generation of Haitian intellectuals: Louis Joseph Janvier (1855-1911), Anténor Firmin (1850-1911), and Frédé…
This dissertation is a comparative study of selected novels by Francophone African and Caribbean women. The analysis draws its theoretical framework from Frantz Fanon's writings on violence and on sexual politics. Fanon, like his peers, undertook the issue of violence in the col…
In April 1960 the British daily The Manchester Guardian had accused Israel's prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, of “plunging the new nation into Levantinism.” Ben-Gurion himself promised his supporters during an election rally that he would “prevent the Levantinization of Israel!…
Twentieth-century French scholars have extensively studied postcolonial literature dealing with identity issues rooted in colonialism, yet these studies do not address the emergence of new definitions of Identity found in the controversial literature of today's Francophone women…
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 study focuses on the tactics used by minorities in Francophone cultures to articulate a relational self-definition, or identity, in their writings, and analyzes the ways such self-definition is for them both enabling and critical of power structures. It draws on feminist th…
The advent of the African woman to literary writing has provided sources of inspiration for black francophone literature. A characteristic trait of feminine francophone sub-saharan literature is the breaking of silence by women in order to affirm their self-liberation. This diss…
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…
Au Québec comme en Afrique subsaharienne francophone, la prise d'écriture tardive des femmes a constitué un événement subversif dans leurs champs littéraires, jusque-là dominés par les hommes. Du statut d'objet, ces femmes sont passées à celui de sujet. Mais comment appréhender …
This study focuses on postcolonial Francophone women's writing from Algeria and Vietnam. The four authors I examine, Yamina Mechakra, Ly Thu Ho, Malika Mokeddem, and Kim Lefévre, never give one definition of the postcolonial Francophone subject; yet, they pose similar questions …
This dissertation examines the use of mortuary tropes for the articulation of identities in seven Francophone Black narratives: Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosée, Jean-Claude Fignolé's Les possédés de la pleine lune and Maryse Condé's Traversée de la mangrove—for the Car…