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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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…
This study considers the work of three francophone writers working in the cultural space between France and Algeria. Authors Assia Djebar, Leila Sebbar and Feriel Assima each explore what it means to belong to a particular community and how one defines identity in such a group a…
Sounding the Text proposes a methodology called sounding, an interpretative gesture of listening for sounds and measuring silences in cultural texts in a way that articulates an ethics of committed listening. Sounding counters the silencing of marginalized Francophone voices wit…
This dissertation analyzes the representation of space in six works of literature set in North Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. My readings purport to interpret the modalities of “cognitive mapping” elaborated by each text, generated by the authors' confront…
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…
The aim of this study is to investigate identity politics as they are delineated in the Maghrebian Francophone novel. Maghrebian authors who have chosen to write in the language of the erstwhile colonizer are all the product of a bilingual and bicultural society. In the light of…
This dissertation, entitled Beyond Postcolonial discourse: New problematics of Feminine identity in Contemporary Francophone Literature, focuses on contemporary Francophone texts written by authors from North Africa; notably Tahar Ben Jelloun, Assia Djebar and Leila Sebbar. Thes…
Les autres voleuses is a study about écriture : the textual construction of identity through writing, language and voice; more specifically, it is a study about a “feminine language”: a strategic concept used as a trope for writing against hegemonic and mainstream constructions …
This dissertation explores the significance of alterity in the works of Albert Camus and Assia Djebar. Using the philosophy of Emmanuel Lévinas as a theoretical foundation, I argue that both authors seek to establish a paradigm for the relationship with the other which preserves…
This dissertation foregrounds discursive strategies of empowerment with regard to language, colonization and female subjugation. I analyze two contemporary, post-colonial fictional responses to French colonialism in Algeria in order to reformulate the relationship between violen…
Based on a series of close textual readings inspired by the phenomenological approach and especially the poetic readings of Gaston Bachelard, the objective of this dissertation is to show how space allows three major contemporary Francophone writers to reveal their up-rooted and…
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…
My dissertation addresses the autobiographical art and literature of postcolonial Francophone women from the Maghreb and Southeast Asia including Leila Sebbar, Assia Djebar, Marguerite Duras, Theresa Cha, and Hélène Cixous. Adopting a comparative approach, I consider how these a…
This dissertation is both a theoretical proposal about exile and identity and an engaged reading of novels by Assia Djebar and Nabile Farès. The gist of my argument is that Djebar and Farès bring together the specificities of the Algerian—and more generally the francophone—write…
Through three written texts, L'amour, la fantasia, Vaste est la prison, and Le blanc de l'Algerie by Assia Djebar, and two films, Afrique, je te plumerai by Jean-Marie Teno and Lumumba: la mort du prophete by Raoul Peck, I examine a "post-colonial" pre-occupation with history. I…
Questions of Apprenticeship in African and Caribbean Narratives: Gender, Journey, and Development examines African and Caribbean narratives that follow the apprenticeships of young protagonists while simultaneously critiquing postcolonial development politics. The novels and fil…
The fiction of Algerian writer Assia Djebar, from La Soif (1957) to La Femme sans sepulture (2001) is set in cities, notably Algiers, the legendary White City which, like the blank page, provides space for Djebarian characters to inscribe their new history, but which also repres…
Cette thèse consiste en une anlyse de l'oeuvre de deux écrivaines francophones, Assia Djebar et Leïla Sebbar. Ces oeuvres sont examinées dans leur contexte culturel et historique, et la thèse souligne l'usage particulier de l'histoire propre à chacune de ces auteures qui réécriv…