Francophone

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…

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…