To investigate the reception of Classical motifs within the early medieval world, as well as show the multicultural connectivity between peoples, this work of creative fiction explores the tradition of Neoptolemus in the Ninth Century CE. Rather than telling the story from a sin…
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L’objectif de cette mini-thèse est d’étudier la vie de la femme dans Assèze l’Africaine de Calixthe Beyala. Dans ce roman, Beyala présente le tableau africain d’après les indépendances à travers les peines, les illusions et l’espoir de différents personnages féminins. Le lecteur…
This dissertation studies aesthetic, political and ethical dimensions of the representation of Holocaust perpetrators in Hebrew and Israeli fiction published since the mid-1940s. Drawing on recent scholarship by Holocaust historians, such as Christopher Browning and Daniel Goldh…
This work examines western characters at the intersection of coloniality, gender, and modernity in Arab contemporary novels. Westerners visiting the Arab world in Aswāt by Egyptian Suleiman Fayyād, I, the Divine: A novel in First Chapters by Lebanese Rabih Alameddine, Maryam al …
Ten Klicks South of Whiskey is a stage performance in three acts, consisting mostly of monologues from soldiers of various backgrounds. It follows the trials of 4th platoon, Delta Troop, 463rd Cavalry Squadron, a fictional unit that achieves a near-mythic reputation of heroism a…
Synopsis of linked short stories. It was 1948 and Manuel Souza was 15 years old when he left his family and the comfort of his village on Pico Island in the Portuguese Azores. With barely an eighth-grade education, Manuel arrived in the U.S., scared and unable to speak English. …
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…
This dissertation analyzes the coexistence of realist and modernist prose in early and mid-twentieth century Hebrew fictional texts. The first chapter focuses on Y. Ch. Brenner's 1911 novel, Mi-kan u-mi-kan (From Here and There). On the one hand, this novel engages the specific,…
In this dissertation, I study the depiction of female protagonists' aggressive behaviors in the fiction of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton, Nella Larsen, and Mary Austin written in the United States between 1892–1929. I examine culture, ideology, and feminis…
This dissertation seeks to avoid the common reading of postcolonial novels as embracing nationalism because they challenge empire. While recognizing that postcolonial novelists contest the imperialist construction of Africans and Asians as biologically, culturally, and intellect…
The literatures emerging from the postcolonial world bring new dimensions of linguistic heterogeneity to English literature, opening up rich possibilities for the heteroglossia and interanimation of languages celebrated by Mikhail Bakhtin. Two case studies illustrate the “breaki…
Edith Wharton's reputation rests upon her achievements in fiction. In comparison, her nonfiction writing remains relatively unknown. During her forty years as a writer, Wharton published nine nonfiction books on topics ranging from architecture, trench warfare, and travel. The i…
The dissertation investigates the relationship between Francophone African literature and film and the self-representations of four prominent artists of the region. While scholars have previously examined interviews, essays, and letters for their biographical value, my dissertat…
This work examines the ways in which imperialism operates on middle-class Victorian women in the mid-Victorian age. Focusing on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, and George Eliot's Adam Bede, I analyze the process of imperialism which functions on t…
Through a comparative analysis of Chen Kaige's film Yellow Earth , Amadou Saleem Seck's film Saaraba, Zhang Chengzhi's short fiction and Nurrudin Farah's novel Maps, this dissertation examines some of the contradictions inherent in the ideological premises of Third World revolut…
This dissertation examines the intertextual relations between classic literature of the Rabbis, the Talmud and Midrash, and the fiction of three early modernist Hebrew writers—Uri Nissan Gnessin, David Fogel, and Dvora Baron. My attempt is to show that intertextual strategies an…
This dissertation lays down the groundwork for understanding a new literary trend that re-engages the Eastern European Jewish past. It provides a critical reading of six works produced in Israel and the Diaspora by young Jewish authors who themselves did not grow up in Yiddish-s…
This dissertation examines the relationship between nation and class in a range of postcolonial fiction. The field of postcolonial studies, I suggest, is marked by an anti-nationalist trend that betrays an idealist and ahistorical approach to both politics and literature. In cha…
«Dans l'ombre des platanes» est une thèse de création littéraire qui comprend deux parties distinctes. La première partie, intitulée «Dans l'ombre des platanes» (p.17 à 177) et composée de récits et de poèmes, est divisée en douze épisodes qui relatent l'intériorité de deux femm…