The subject of my dissertation is cinematic constructions of African immigrant and French identities. I analyze Vivre au Paradis (Bourlem Guerdjou), Soleil Ô (Med Hondo), La Noire de… (Ousmane Sembene), and Mémoires d'immigrés (Yamina Benguigui) from cultural, aesthetic, and pol…
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The dissertation investigates the relationship between Francophone African literature and film and the self-representations of four prominent artists of the region. While scholars have previously examined interviews, essays, and letters for their biographical value, my dissertat…
The concept of the author has changed over time, along with the forms of media that have been used to circulate texts. In my dissertation, I examine assumptions about writers with roots on the African continent by looking at representations of their status and function as author…
My dissertation considers West African Francophone literature in its relationship with local traditional oral literature. This study examines the intertextual dialogue between the Zarma-Songhoï oral narrative, The Epic Of Askia Mohammed, and the modern fictional tale of Toula, b…
This study examines works ranging from illustrated books and lyres d'artiste(s) to book-objects in order to show how book art as a genre has contributed to contemporary Francophone literatures. Adopting an approach at the intersection of aesthetic philosophy, cultural sociology …
The publication of the manifesto Eloge de la Creolite in 1989 riveted our attention back to Francophone Caribbean literature and to issues of race, culture and identity which Francophone intellectuals have been grappling with since the beginning of the twentieth century. This is…
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 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!…
The goal of this thesis is twofold: (1) to analyze the ontology, function, and purpose of literary theory through a close reading of traditional aesthetics and the phenomenon known as post-coloniality in their African and diasporan dimensions; and (2) to propose a new theory. Th…
Research in cognitive psychology has shown a particularly strong association between phonological working memory-usually indexed by some version of a nonword repetition task-and both first language (L1) and second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition in children (e.g., Gathercol…
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…
The central goal of this study is to present a literary interpretation of three rare Judeo-Maghrebi collections of poetry and thereby assess their aesthetic worth and importance to French, Jewish, and cultural studies. The chosen texts are a paradigm of a diverse culture which p…
This dissertation focuses on reactions to the French canon in four Francophone novels. The study examines the use of allusions to, quotations from, and parallels with French canonical works in an effort to determine how these canonical works are mobilized in the creation of a ne…
The aim of this dissertation is to question the concept of orality as the natural expression of ancestors in African novels and press for a reading of West African writers, which values their fictional creation as autonomous from their cultural origins. The main purpose of this …
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…
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…