This study focuses on three major Maghreb states (Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia) with distinct institutional, political and socioeconomic patterns. It essentially tackles the issue of technological development particularly investments, trade, human capital and patents in a social…
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Few world cities can claim to have had as much of an impact on American literature as the Moroccan city of Tangier. The writers who resided in or passed through the city in the 1950s and the works of literature produced there have re-charted the course of American letters. Tangi…
My dissertation offers an analysis of childhood writing in Moroccan literature. It explores narratives entirely or partially dedicated to childhood written by both male and female writers and published during the second half of the twentieth century. This includes early works su…
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…
Le Maghreb ne peut être assimilé à l'Orient parce que, contrairement à lui, il est géographiquement localisable et ne peut être nié dans son historicité. À son contact, les fantasmes romantiques, déjà confrontés à la naissance des principes réalistes, s'effondrent, heurtés à une…
This dissertation focuses on the dynamics of writing as it unfolds in three of Khatibi's works. The two questions of “otherness” and “thought”, central to all of Khatibi's writing, guide the development of the project. A discussion of the complex interactions between these two n…
The objective of this study is to interpret Tahar Ben Jelloun's oeuvre in terms of the cultural context of the Maghreb, a context which is itself located at an unstable juncture between East and West, colonialism and decolonization, taqlid (traditionalism) and hadatha (modernity…
This thesis examines a cluster of recent films that feature people of Maghrebi heritage and position corporeality as a site through which subjectivity and self-other relations are constituted and experienced. These films are set in and between the countries of the Maghreb, Franc…
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 is a study of the figure of the intruder in postcolonial francophone literature, film and graphic novels published and released in the second half of the 20th and early 21 st century which develop a discourse on the Maghreb or the Maghrebian dispora in France. …
An unresolved issue in African literary studies is whether North and sub-Saharan Africa are disconnected from one another, or whether they share elements that can further our understanding of the cultures from which they emerge. Since the mid-twentieth century, due to growing in…
From 1992 until 1995, Morocco and the European Union (EU) were in negotiations for an Association Agreement as part of a regional initiative, the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership (or “Barcelona process”). The free trade provisions of the agreement seemed unfavorable for Morocco: t…
Notre thèse, divisée en quatre chapitres, explore l'intersigne langagier féminin chez quatre romanciers maghrébins contemporains d'expression française que voici: Tahar Ben Jelloun, Assia Djebar, Malika Mokeddem et Abdelhak Serhane. Dans le chapitre premier, nous expliquons, en …
This dissertation explores alternative ways of representing memory and history in novels written by four authors with connection to the Maghreb. I examine how these texts question the necessity of basing memory on an unambiguous understanding of past events and instead function …
This dissertation considers the work of Driss Chraibi and Tahar Djaout, two Francophone writers from the Maghreb, in relation to the theme of rewriting. The Maghrebi literature from which the complex work of these writers emerges is a hybrid cultural context in which multiple la…
This dissertation examines the problematic location of home, the traditional female activity of homemaking, and the representation of female subjectivity in contemporary cinematic, (auto)biographical, and fictional texts by several contemporary French and Francophone women artis…
This thesis presents two Maghrebian novels written in French that share aspects of the Bildungsroman tradition. This reading via the lens of the Bildungsroman underscores the importance of the choice of a young female central character. The novels are subjected to a close readin…
This dissertation offers a critique of photographic and verbal representations in a number of texts, particularly those by four contemporary French-language writers: Michel Tournier, J.M.G. Le Cezio, Tahar Ben Jelloun and Leila Sebbar. Despite their acute awareness of the twenti…
Orientalist cultural translation remains immanent to the creation and reception of Maghrebi women's fiction. However, recent literary and cinematic texts from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia problematize and critique this dynamic. Reappropriating both the process of translation an…