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…
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This dissertation examines the different ways in which Edouard Glissant, Kateb Yacine and William Faulkner combine landscape, history and identity in their work. The depiction of landscape in literature is not new, but the French Romantics in the 19th century, for instance, tend…
This dissertation examines the consequences of the (post)colonial experience in the Caribbean and nationhood in Israel as represented in the contemporary fiction and essays of Édouard Glissant and Aharon Appelfeld. The works of both Glissant and Appelfeld, I argue, represent a c…
The dissertation explores the relationship between European literary heritage and native experience in the poetry of Tagore, Yeats, Senghor, Césaire, and Neruda, and anticipates patterns in the development of postcolonial literatures during the twentieth century. The different n…
One of the major cultural differences in Third World Cinema from Western Cinema is the collective consciousness of heritage, values, moral and family solidarity this passed from mothers to children. Western Cinema often portrays ungrateful, spoiled children who have been lauded …
This dissertation demonstrates how Glissant's theory of Relation is imagined within the contemporary African novel. Particular attention has been paid to novels by Abdourahman A. Waberi and Fatou Diome which highlight themes of errantry, migration, identity and belonging. These …
This dissertation is predominantly an analysis of urban (and suburban or peripheral) representations in four francophone postcolonial fictional narratives: Xala (1973) by Ousmane Sembène, Texaco (1992) by Patrick Chamoiseau, Les honneurs perdus (1996) by Calixthe Beyala, and La …
This dissertation argues that within specific, historical, material conditions, a work of art can transform the configuration of conditions that make the world. It can do so by creating virtual alliances between images that wield real impact. From the premise that a work of art …
My dissertation explores civil violence in the postcolony and its representation in contemporary literature. Whether in the form of civil war in Algeria, genocide in Rwanda or religious riots in India, these events are a direct result of the political, legal and intellectual fou…
This dissertation, Postcards from the Edge-City: Mass-Media and Photographic Images in Contemporary Novels of the Black Diaspora , examines the use of photographic and mass-media images in literary representations of Black urban slums or "edge-cities." I explore four contemporar…
This dissertation traces the emergence of overlooked articulations of the megacity in contemporary postcolonial novels. Representations of non-Western cities and informal settlements or "slums" in global popular culture and Anglophone urban commentary enact a series of elisions …
This thesis addresses the topic of the movement of Negritude launched by Senghor and Cesaire, two French poets from Senegal and from Martinique, who participated in the political struggles of the period 1930 to 1960. For Senghor, Negritude, the sum of the cultural values of the …
This dissertation examines the theoretical and fictional works of four major postcolonial writers of French expression: Abdelkebir Khatibi (Morocco), Edouard Glissant (Martinique), Yves Valentin Mudimbe (Democratic Republic of Congo) and Assia Djebar (Algeria). These authors inv…