Maghreb

This study explores the eroticization of North Africa within the context of Orientalist discourse, colonial architecture, and visual representations of postcolonial North Africa. It compares and contrasts the contemporary Spanish novelist Juan Goytisolo's portrayal of (homo)sexu…

This thesis examines a cluster of recent films that feature people of Maghrebi heritage and position corporeality as a site through which subjectivity and self-other relations are constituted and experienced. These films are set in and between the countries of the Maghreb, Franc…

This dissertation examines three periods in Euro-American history that appear disparate but reflect the West’s changing relationship with the Islamic World and with Muslims, in particular with Muslim women, in Muslim-majority countries, the United States, and the United Kingdom.…

This study focuses on three major Maghreb states (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) with distinct institutional, political and socioeconomic patterns. It essentially tackles the issue of technological development particularly investments, trade, human capital and patents in a social…

This dissertation examines the problematic location of home, the traditional female activity of homemaking, and the representation of female subjectivity in contemporary cinematic, (auto)biographical, and fictional texts by several contemporary French and Francophone women artis…

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 dissertation explores alternative ways of representing memory and history in novels written by four authors with connection to the Maghreb. I examine how these texts question the necessity of basing memory on an unambiguous understanding of past events and instead function …

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…

Few world cities can claim to have had as much of an impact on American literature as the Moroccan city of Tangier. The writers who resided in or passed through the city in the 1950s and the works of literature produced there have re-charted the course of American letters. Tangi…

My dissertation offers an analysis of childhood writing in Moroccan literature. It explores narratives entirely or partially dedicated to childhood written by both male and female writers and published during the second half of the twentieth century. This includes early works su…

Vernacular Optics: Phantasms of National Culture in the Postcolonial Maghreb, generates a critical methodology for excavating an archive of erased signs in the postcolonial Maghreb. Focusing on the novels of Rachid Boudjedra and Tahar Ben Jelloun, the poetry of Abdellatif Laâbi,…

Orientalist cultural translation remains immanent to the creation and reception of Maghrebi women's fiction. However, recent literary and cinematic texts from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia problematize and critique this dynamic. Reappropriating both the process of translation an…

This thesis examines recent academic literature about Libya and media reports on the 2011 Libyan revolution to uncover the ways in which reductionist, stereotypical, and Orientalizing language is prevalent in the construction of Western knowledge about Libya. I borrow post-struc…

The objective of this study is to interpret Tahar Ben Jelloun's oeuvre in terms of the cultural context of the Maghreb, a context which is itself located at an unstable juncture between East and West, colonialism and decolonization, taqlid (traditionalism) and hadatha (modernity…

Le Maghreb ne peut être assimilé à l'Orient parce que, contrairement à lui, il est géographiquement localisable et ne peut être nié dans son historicité. À son contact, les fantasmes romantiques, déjà confrontés à la naissance des principes réalistes, s'effondrent, heurtés à une…

This dissertation focuses on the dynamics of writing as it unfolds in three of Khatibi's works. The two questions of “otherness” and “thought”, central to all of Khatibi's writing, guide the development of the project. A discussion of the complex interactions between these two n…