The focus on the different types of exiles results from the historical, religious, social, cultural, and political events that cause the departure of the North Africans from their country. The division into four sections emphasizes the specific aspects of the issues the exiles e…
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Since the mid-1980s, Francophone authors from both the Eastern and Western worlds have displayed a renewed interest in Scheherazade, the legendary storyteller of Les Mille et Une Nuits. This rediscovery of Scheherazade, particularly in the postcolonial context, serves as a vehic…
In this dissertation, I propose a new understanding of the relationship between the inhabitants of the metropole and the colonies, by showing how a number of major Twentieth-Century French and Francophone authors depict technology as a mediator, both productive and destructive, …
This dissertation examines the representation of complex mother figures presented in Francophone literature. I focus my analysis on literature from three distinct Francophone regions: the French Caribbean, North Africa, and Quebec. Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle (1972) by Sim…
Saisis par les violences d'actualité, les écrivains de la francophonie se penchent sur les questions de victimisation et de discours mystificateurs, pour éviter que ne sombre dans l'oubli l'être humain placé au centre des conflits, tel que le dirait Milan Kundera. L'être en rela…
This study explores the points of contact between Albert Memmi's literary production and four specific critical shifts: the crisis of the authorial subject, the interrogation of the form of the novel, the resistance to ocularcentrism, and the rejection of the colonial project. I…
This thesis presents two Maghrebian novels written in French that share aspects of the Bildungsroman tradition. This reading via the lens of the Bildungsroman underscores the importance of the choice of a young female central character. The novels are subjected to a close readin…
This dissertation offers a critique of photographic and verbal representations in a number of texts, particularly those by four contemporary French-language writers: Michel Tournier, J.M.G. Le Cezio, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Leila Sebbar. Despite their acute awareness of the twenti…
In this study, we undertake a socio-cultural analysis of female existence in narrative spaces produced by African francophone writers of Muslim cultural background. We begin this analysis with the premise that one of the fundamental components of any culture is a set of values r…
This study examines the relationship between ideas about decadence and the discourse of Orientalism in French and Arabic literature and society since the nineteenth century. By tracing the genealogy of French Orientalism in the Arab world, this dissertation shows how colonial mo…
The objective of this dissertation is to demonstrate the feminine theme of self-identity in a literary and social context, as evidenced in two contemporary Francophone texts by Lebanese authors Etel Adnan and Evelyne Accad. Writing in French rather than in their native language,…
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…
The study reviews the history of education in Francophone West Africa from the post-colonial era to the current period. It gives primary attention to the conflicting goals of formal and Islamic education, the place of nonformal education during colonial period and looks at the a…
This dissertation investigates patriarchy and the ideological role and narrative function of the father in the Maghrebian novel in French. Contrary to the predominant scholarship which has focused on the figure of the father as a site of patriarchal oppression and perennial forc…
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 literary and filmic representations of marriage in Francophone Africa and the Caribbean. Marriage is an important topos and serves as a crucial narrative device because it provides a space to address issues of identity on several levels: personal, reli…
My doctoral thesis examines the theme of wandering in contemporary French and Francophone literature as that theme is exemplified in the works of five authors: Marie Redonnet, Marie NDiaye, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Antoine Volodine, and Patrick Deville. My hypothesis is that each of t…
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 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…