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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L'Étranger (1942) d'Albert Camus raconte l'histoire d'un homme qui, face à sa condamnation à mort, se découvre heureux. Si la première moitié du roman illustre un bonheur premier, c'est-à-dire une vie simple empreinte de petits plaisirs et d'amitiés sincères, la seconde donne à …
This project explains Polish non-violence and Algerian violence under martial law following peaceful protests against comparable material deprivation and authoritarian political exclusion. From narratives of state formation, institutional performance, and social movement evoluti…
This dissertation traces the competing forces of antisemitism and Jewish civic activism in French colonial Algeria from the 1870 Crémieux decree to the end of World War II. The dissertation centers on the experience of Algerian Jews and their evolving identity as citizens as the…
The cultural productions of Katherine Anne Porter, Anita Brenner, Tina Modotti, Maria Izquierdo, and Juanita Guccione represent a distinctive interweaving of gender and class consciousness, national identification and political resistance, as represented in their artistic work. …
In stark contrast to the city, rural spaces are often considered resistant to the novelistic impulse of narrative progress. Lives here are seemingly unchanged by time or human invention. The rural is often overlooked as an immobile reference point of beginning, way station or en…
The construction of the Musée Historique at Versailles and the colonial conquest of Algeria were two concurrent projects of national concern that spanned the July Monarchy (1830-1848), the period of Louis-Philippe d'Orléans's political administration. Louis-Philippe commissioned…
This dissertation examines the intersection of aesthetics and politics through the prism of the uneasy relationship between formal literary experimentation and the notion of engagement in French and Algerian novels written during the politically turbulent period framed by the Al…
Contemporary writers Albert Camus, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Elie Wiesel, and Sylvie Germain transpose the problem confronting the biblical Job in a century of total wars and genocides. Broadly influenced by a range of (a)theological perspectives, these authors grapple with existen…
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 dissertation explores the history of the French Algerian wine industry. The product of an ecological disaster in Europe the wine industry in French North Africa became the fourth largest producer of wine in the world by the mid-twentieth century. French Algeria played a lea…
The rise of religious politics throughout the world has called into question the assumption that political secularization would inevitably occur with modernization, and has created the impression that this political challenge represents a dichotomous conflict between the religio…
Most models of property rights assume they are supplied by the state on demand from society. Property rights are strong when state institutions enforce the law. The strength of state institutions in the provinces determines how well property rights will be enforced on the ground…
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 role of the literary in the contradictory political experiences of three authors. I argue that Albert Camus, Ignazio Silone, and Manès Sperber create a literary language that speaks about a type of political abuse and betrayal that the ideologies o…
In recent decades, French historical scholarship has begun to re-examine the Second Empire, revising a period once interpreted in terms of failure and national tragedy to reveal a moment in which the roots of France’s “modern” republican polity emerged. Yet in spite of this re-e…
Paul Fussell has remarked that our understanding of modernity throughout the last century; “is essentially ironic; and that it originates largely in the application of mind and memory to the events of the Great War.” What this dissertation demonstrates is that World War I, while…
Friedrich Nietzsche's theory of the Apollonian and Dionysian dichotomy can be seen at work in the texts of canonical modernist writers such as Virginia Woolf, Hermann Hesse, Albert Camus, Rainer Maria Rilke, William B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot, and it is in the balance of these two …