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In my dissertation I propose a stylistic analysis of literary representations of hybrid identities in four postcolonial Francophone novels written by female authors: Georgette! by the French-Algerian author Farida Belghoul, En attendant le bonheur by Guadeloupean author Maryse C…

This study uses expatriation as an analytical framework for exploring the works of African women who have left their African homelands and have relocated to the West. These five authors, Calixthe Beyala from Cameroon, Ken Bugul from Senegal, Assia Djebar from Algeria, Buchi Emec…

This dissertation is a comparative study of selected novels by Francophone African and Caribbean women. The analysis draws its theoretical framework from Frantz Fanon's writings on violence and on sexual politics. Fanon, like his peers, undertook the issue of violence in the col…

This dissertation analyzes black female sexual agency and communal patriarchal norms controlling female sexuality to maintain male domination in six Sub-Saharan Francophone novels: Daniel Biyaoula's L'Impasse, Calixthe Beyala's Amours sauvages and C'est le soleil qui m'a brûlée,…

Twentieth-century French scholars have extensively studied postcolonial literature dealing with identity issues rooted in colonialism, yet these studies do not address the emergence of new definitions of Identity found in the controversial literature of today's Francophone women…