This dissertation examines the rhetorical articulation of home in the work of Mahmoud Darwish and Assia Djebar. In their attempt to reconstitute the trope of home differently from its inherited configurations, the two writers recall moments of interruption in their literary heri…
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The Maghreb Goes Abroad seeks to broaden and nuance our understanding of francophone North Africa by examining the ways in which some of its most well known literary and cultural works and figures have navigated a global market. This project analyzes the transnational movements …
Orality or Literature? That was the question that led to this dissertation. The central topic around which that project was generated is the epic stories sung by griots like Djéliba Badjé and Djado Sékou. Though this was just the tip of the iceberg, it became obvious from listen…
Since 1950, autobiographical fiction has been the preferred genre for many North African writers of French expression. Assia Djebar's and Abdelkebir Khatibi's autobiographical narratives distinguish themselves from the earlier examples of the genre in that they consciously chall…
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…
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…