Sites of Struggle examines the representation of marginality in contemporary literature that strategizes its own ‘difference’, specifically ‘Beur’ literature, written in French by authors of North African origin and Hindi Dalit literature, written by members of the untouchable c…
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Starting from the basis that identity, individual or communal, is a narrative construct, the following study attempts to uncover the ways in which Jewish, Beur, and Antillean narrative is informing French national identity. Identity construction involves the positioning of bound…
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 …
This dissertation focuses on Beurs’ modes of identification in France as depicted in film. The term “Beur” is not used as an identity based on birth or citizenship but rather as a socio-cultural construct that serves as an analytical tool to dismantle the notion of Frenchness. T…
This dissertation focuses on a corpus of autobiographies and novels produced since 2002 by children, mainly daughters, of harkis (Algerian civilians who fought on the French side during the war of independence of Algeria between 1954 and 1962), including Dalila Kerchouche, Fatim…