In this dissertation project I look at the politics of memory and mourning as read through the trope of the archive. In doing this, I use the navette or shuttle as a form of transit and as a reading methodology in order to travel on and between texts. The navette is also a weavi…
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The main contribution of this dissertation is to assess the inhibition Maghrebian characters and writers (Assia Djebar and Leila Sebbar in this case) acquire which becomes self-censorship as they witness the voyeur turning them into "sex objects of consumption" and become defens…
This thesis focuses on a body of cultural productions and, more specifically, on some texts that have emerged on the French and francophone literary scene in the early eighties. There are about thirty novels, a few testimonies and some movies, which all share the characteristic …
Notre thèse, divisée en quatre chapitres, explore l'intersigne langagier féminin chez quatre romanciers maghrébins contemporains d'expression française que voici: Tahar Ben Jelloun, Assia Djebar, Malika Mokeddem et Abdelhak Serhane. Dans le chapitre premier, nous expliquons, en …
From 1992 until 1995, Morocco and the European Union (EU) were in negotiations for an Association Agreement as part of a regional initiative, the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (or “Barcelona process”). The free trade provisions of the agreement seemed unfavorable for Morocco: t…
This dissertation is a study of the figure of the intruder in postcolonial francophone literature, film and graphic novels published and released in the second half of the 20th and early 21 st century which develop a discourse on the Maghreb or the Maghrebian dispora in France. …
An unresolved issue in African literary studies is whether North and sub-Saharan Africa are disconnected from one another, or whether they share elements that can further our understanding of the cultures from which they emerge. Since the mid-twentieth century, due to growing in…
This thesis presents two Maghrebian novels written in French that share aspects of the Bildungsroman tradition. This reading via the lens of the Bildungsroman underscores the importance of the choice of a young female central character. The novels are subjected to a close readin…
This dissertation offers a critique of photographic and verbal representations in a number of texts, particularly those by four contemporary French-language writers: Michel Tournier, J.M.G. Le Cezio, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Leila Sebbar. Despite their acute awareness of the twenti…
Entrenched between contradictory traditional and western values, francophone African Muslims have adopted opposing attitudes and customs. They take refuge in their secular practices that predate both Islam and the Coran, which they have misread, in order to justify polar interpr…
My dissertation, Authorizing Narrative: Negotiations of Belonging in North African Literature interrogates the ways that narrative shapes conceptions of space and identity as constituted through religious, gendered and transnational affiliations. The project foregrounds the nego…
My dissertation engages in a close study of the autobiographical writings of three contemporary Francophone writers from the Maghreb: Assia Djebar, Hélène Cixous, and Abdelkébir Khatibi. I focus on music not only as a "theme" pulsing throughout their fictional, poetic, and theor…
This thesis uses analytical and empirical methods to explore the relation between gender standards and democratic standards in the Maghreb, which includes Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia. The analytical approach consists of considering theories that link gender standards and democ…
Like its related repertoires in other parts of the urban Maghreb, what is sometimes called the Andalusi musical tradition of Algiers, Tlemcen, and several other western Algerian and Moroccan cities is considered a local, national, and transnational patrimony. Framed as a collect…
"This book traces religion and secularity in eleven countries not shaped by Western Christianity (Japan, China, Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, and Morocco), and how they parallel or diverge from Charles Taylor's grand narrative of the North Atla…
