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…
"83" Result
Sort By:
The concept of the author has changed over time, along with the forms of media that have been used to circulate texts. In my dissertation, I examine assumptions about writers with roots on the African continent by looking at representations of their status and function as author…
My dissertation considers West African Francophone literature in its relationship with local traditional oral literature. This study examines the intertextual dialogue between the Zarma-Songhoï oral narrative, The Epic Of Askia Mohammed, and the modern fictional tale of Toula, b…
This dissertation examines the use of mortuary tropes for the articulation of identities in seven Francophone Black narratives: Jacques Roumain's Gouverneurs de la rosée, Jean-Claude Fignolé's Les possédés de la pleine lune and Maryse Condé's Traversée de la mangrove—for the Car…
This dissertation, titled “La représentation de 1'identité mandingue dans le roman africain francophone subsaharien,” examines the historical, socio-cultural, political and linguistic representations of Mandingo identity in three novels; namely, L'Étrange destin de Wangrin by Am…
Research in cognitive psychology has shown a particularly strong association between phonological working memory-usually indexed by some version of a nonword repetition task-and both first language (L1) and second language (L2) vocabulary acquisition in children (e.g., Gathercol…
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…
The goal of this thesis is twofold: (1) to analyze the ontology, function, and purpose of literary theory through a close reading of traditional aesthetics and the phenomenon known as post-coloniality in their African and diasporan dimensions; and (2) to propose a new theory. Th…
The central goal of this study is to present a literary interpretation of three rare Judeo-Maghrebi collections of poetry and thereby assess their aesthetic worth and importance to French, Jewish, and cultural studies. The chosen texts are a paradigm of a diverse culture which p…
This dissertation focuses on reactions to the French canon in four Francophone novels. The study examines the use of allusions to, quotations from, and parallels with French canonical works in an effort to determine how these canonical works are mobilized in the creation of a ne…
The publication of the manifesto Eloge de la Creolite in 1989 riveted our attention back to Francophone Caribbean literature and to issues of race, culture and identity which Francophone intellectuals have been grappling with since the beginning of the twentieth century. This is…
The subject of my dissertation is cinematic constructions of African immigrant and French identities. I analyze Vivre au Paradis (Bourlem Guerdjou), Soleil Ô (Med Hondo), La Noire de… (Ousmane Sembene), and Mémoires d'immigrés (Yamina Benguigui) from cultural, aesthetic, and pol…
Post independent African society is confronted with a wide variety of challenges, the most crucial of which include political struggles, economic crisis, growing poverty, cultural disintegration, societal contradictions, and responses to modernization and globalization. Individu…
This dissertation explores the Franco-Egyptian cultural and literary interactions in the mid-20th century, and examines the importance of these exchanges in the writings and intellectual journey of poet Georges Henein (1914–1973). This study is divided into three chapters. In a …
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…
This thesis, through an examination of literary texts, defines the political views and ideas of nearly a dozen francophone Algerian intellectuals and writers from the mid-1950's—during the early years of Algeria's war of independence against France—to the present. It gives an ac…
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…
The aim of this dissertation is to question the concept of orality as the natural expression of ancestors in African novels and press for a reading of West African writers, which values their fictional creation as autonomous from their cultural origins. The main purpose of this …