This dissertation focuses on reactions to the French canon in four Francophone novels. The study examines the use of allusions to, quotations from, and parallels with French canonical works in an effort to determine how these canonical works are mobilized in the creation of a ne…
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This document will undertake a comparison of the urban spaces and the narrative subjects that inhabit them in Maghrebian autobiographical narratives of childhood of the latter half of the twentieth century. The postcolonial theorist Homi K. Bhabha has suggested that one of the m…
A large richly embroidered eighteenth-century silk textile belonging to the Graduate Study Collection at the Fashion Institute of Technology was selected for a conservation treatment. Many of these early textiles impose similar concerns for conservators and collections managers …
This dissertation explores the relationship between political identity and conflict in French-ruled Algeria. It combines structural and relational models of political identity formation and highlights the role of social movements and state actors in that process. It examines a p…
This dissertation explores the modern history of the Jewish community of Algeria by placing it in the context of a colonial triangle, which is formed by the French colonial power, the Algerian Jews, and the Algerian Muslims. Within the framework of those tumultuous trilateral re…
This dissertation analyzes the participation of Senegalese men in the Second World War, their perceptions of France as the “motherland,” and of themselves as members of the French colonial army. The narrative framework for the work is the chronology of Senegalese participation i…
This study, which examines the French experience of captivity in the Barbary States of Algiers, Tunis, Tripoli and Morocco, considers both the mechanics and perceptions of an often forgotten phenomenon that pitted Crescent against Cross and implicated tens of thousands of subjec…
This dissertation and the grouping of the texts (Jean Genet, Marguerite Duras, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Rachid O.) performs and foretells an evolution in gay and lesbian studies where ideally an “integration” would be as manifold as there are people. My discussion aims at conceptualiz…
This thesis examines how medieval Byzantium is represented in French epics, romances, and chronicles of the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries within a discursive triangle formed by Exoticism/Orientalism/Otherness. Despite their geographical proximity with the Muslim world, …
African literature written in French in the 1970s and 1980s is charged with recurring instances of graphic violence: some have argued that the excess of motifs pertaining to violence is detrimental to the narrative's credibility. In my work, I propose to explore the extent of th…
My dissertation compares British, German, and French Romantic drama, emphasizing women writers' plays about female combatants in the French Revolution. The term French Revolutionary Theater denotes an extended metaphor for examining the drama of death, war, and political protest…
From 1900, and especially during the inter-war period, French colonial governments in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia experimented with initiatives aimed at “renovating” or reviving the production of North African arts and crafts. This dissertation charts the history of this “nativ…
Recent scholarship has suggested that French artist Théodore Chassériau (1819–1856), born in Santo Domingo to a French diplomat and a Creole woman, was in fact a sang-mélé, whose racial identity is reflected in his pictures. Unsettling notions of a direct correlation between bio…
My dissertation, "A l'école du français: Politiques coloniales de la langue 1830-1944," confronts current debates surrounding multilingualism, the language of instruction, and the rewriting of history in former colonial sites. Applying historical, educational and socio-linguisti…
This dissertation analyzes the debates that preceded and followed the "Crémieux Decree"' of 1870, which granted full French citizenship rights to the Jews of Algeria, taking the Decree as an example of how core ideologies of colonizing societies could be transformed in fundament…
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, …
Cartographic sources tell us 18th century Gorée was a rural colonial outpost with few military structures and three distinct villages of African settlement: Gourmettes (free merchants), Habitants (free persons associated with Company headquarters), and captives. The last group a…
From the late 1920s to the mid-1940s, France became home for many Armenian intellectuals and writers who survived the genocide. During this period, Paris served as the center of intellectual life for dispersed Armenians, producing an explosion of literary groups, journals, and a…
This dissertation examines the construction of national identity, as revealed through France's relationship with the Ottoman Empire from 1660 to 1789. I reinterpret early modern France's cultural engagement with the Ottoman Empire and the image of the Turk, by arguing that fasci…