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…
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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…
Beginning with a contextual characterization of the concepts of ‘tragedy’ and ‘hero’, this dissertation examines the various ways black filmmakers represent historical and political leaders of Francophone sub Saharan Africa and the Caribbean in their narratives. Eight movies are…
My thesis centers on the concept of space in the Lebanese Francophone Novel (1942-2000). The introduction begins with an analysis of the concept of space from Albert Einstein to Georges Perec. I then examine the concept of space in Francophone Lebanese texts written in French, i…
In the field of literary production, women's autobiographical writing has been one of the most powerful means of artistic expression. Life-writing is a genre of ambiguity and paradox intertwined with some of the most fundamental questions of literary studies. Within the domain o…
The present research bases itself on a contrastive analysis of the news—political events in both Arabic- and French-language newspapers in Egypt, as much on the form thereof as on their content. More precisely, journalistic discourse in Egypt has historically been marked by cert…
The goal of this study is threefold. At first, it aims at describing the development of Francophone Negro-African Theater from a dynamic point of view by delineating the different phases of its development. Next, the study investigates the different functions assigned to the dra…
An examination of a Tunisian periodical in French, Leïla (1936-1941), published under French colonization reveals anxiety in a border zone, or middle terrain, where boundaries are tested and transgressed by Tunisian women and men in a search for new identities and a national cul…
Post independent African society is confronted with a wide variety of challenges, the most crucial of which include political struggles, economic crisis, growing poverty, cultural disintegration, societal contradictions, and responses to modernization and globalization. Individu…
This dissertation explores the Franco-Egyptian cultural and literary interactions in the mid-20th century, and examines the importance of these exchanges in the writings and intellectual journey of poet Georges Henein (1914–1973). This study is divided into three chapters. In a …
This study deals with the deconstruction of the representation of the Orient in the francophone contemporary novel and short story. It shows how francophone literary texts mirror carnivalesque praxis in their representation of the Orient. I adopt a comparative approach to examin…
This thesis, through an examination of literary texts, defines the political views and ideas of nearly a dozen francophone Algerian intellectuals and writers from the mid-1950's—during the early years of Algeria's war of independence against France—to the present. It gives an ac…
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…
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…