This classic historical resource remains the most complete work on the establishment of Fort Caroline, which heralded the start of permanent settlement by Europeans in North America. America's history was shaped in part by the clash of cultures that took place in the southeaster…
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People have interpreted the numeration of the years of their life since Antiquity (when, for example, the Emperor Augustus did so). Ancient medical theories thus maintained that matter is renewed every seven or nine years. The product of these two numbers is sixty-three, and the…
Depuis l'Antiquité, les hommes ont interprété la numération des années de leur vie, tel l'empereur Auguste, autre manière de retenir le temps qui fuit. Des théories médicales ont ainsi avancé que la matière se renouvelait toutes les sept ou neuf années. Le produit de ces deux ch…
Depuis l'Antiquité, les hommes ont interprété la numération des années de leur vie, tel l'empereur Auguste, autre manière de retenir le temps qui fuit. Des théories médicales ont ainsi avancé que la matière se renouvelait toutes les sept ou neuf années. Le produit de ces deux ch…
This volume is an introduction to the linguistic structure of the French language. It looks at how the language is structured and varies depending on gender, medium, register, age, etc. It contains coverage of important topics in phonology, morphology, syntax, and lexis.
Michel Houellebecq is perhaps the single most successful and controversial of all contemporary novelists writing in French. Houellebecq has become a global publishing phenomenon: his books have been translated worldwide, three film adaptations of his work have been produced, and…
The adoption of French as mother tongue in Wallonia (southern portion of Belgium) is, as in the French regions, the final result of a situation that can be called ‘diglossia’ or ‘triglossia’ if we take into account Latin, which was still used by the Catholic church. That adoptio…
In this dissertation, I explore the texts of several writers from Haiti and Algeria to better understand how people live out their revolutions. I argue that in these two countries, revolution has been a cultural raison d'être since the fight for independence. This research perta…
This study examined the beliefs and opinions of U.S university students towards learning foreign languages. Four major areas were explored, including attitudes and motivations towards learning foreign languages, perceptions of foreign languages in the U.S., and favorability of A…
The Quality of the Blood: Race, Gender, and Empire in Revolutionary French Nationalism (1789-1815) examines the emergence of modern French nationalism in the Revolutionary period. This thesis argues that elites who had intimate contacts with empire and immigration policy played …
Between the two world wars, French-run schools in West Africa experienced a change in structure, purpose and curriculum. Reversing a decades old trend of a liberal arts education that aimed to assimilate all Africans into French culture and society, state-sponsored schools inste…
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…
This dissertation explores how medieval French romances of the twelfth through fourteenth centuries construct representations of Byzantium. I claim that the culture of contact that existed during the Crusades offers a unique context for understanding how Byzantium comes to signi…
In 1683, in Algiers, soldiers of the Dey loaded the French consul into a large cannon and shot him at the French fleet in retaliation for the French bombardment of the city. Many French consuls in the échelles of the Levant and North Africa suffered harassment, imprisonment, or …
In Algeria, the women situation parallels the language situation. In both cases, the allocation of space and therefore of power has changed resulting in tensions between the sexes and between the language users. Arabization, the language policy aiming at expanding the role of Mo…
The goal of this project is to show the overall function types of meta-discursive markers in language. I discuss marker function types as a process of marking up the context/co-text to signal or mark relations between components in the speech act: the speaker, the hearer, and ut…
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…
This study reveals how Enlightenment writers use exotic encounters, real and imagined, as a stage for criticizing their home culture and for examining the limitations on their ability—through literature—to step outside of that home culture. If self-critique is the ultimate goal …
The central assumption of this study is that the awareness of a historically constructed, culturally sanctioned condition of subalternity is at the heart of the fictional production of Francophone African women writers. Subalternity here is viewed as a narrative and spatial cont…