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L'Essentiel Ou Lagniappe: The Ideology Of French Revitalization In Louisiana, Albert Camp
L'Essentiel Ou Lagniappe: The Ideology Of French Revitalization In Louisiana, Albert Camp
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Louisiana’s French revitalization movement has received millions of dollars in taxpayer funding through its various initiatives such as music and cultural festivals, public school French immersion programs, and academic exchange programs, among others. Over forty years ago, the state of Louisiana created CODOFIL, a government agency dedicated to the promotion of Francophone language and culture in Louisiana, yet the number of Francophones in the state has continued to decline at an alarming rate according to the most reliable data available. My study investigates the ideology and demographics of those involved in French education programs in Louisiana’s public schools. Who decides …
Prelude To A Text : The Autobiography Of Abdelkebir Khatibi, Ruth Louise Gaertner
Prelude To A Text : The Autobiography Of Abdelkebir Khatibi, Ruth Louise Gaertner
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This study of Abdelkebir Khatibi’s autobiography, La Mémoire tatouée, addresses two specific questions with respect to autobiography: What does this autobiography tell us about autobiography in general and about its own status as autobiography? What is the relationship between Khatibi’s autobiography and his other more well-known texts? Chapter One focuses on questions of autobiography and how this text challenges generic classification and definition. The analysis in this chapter focuses on a consideration of form and innovation, the multiplicity of the autobiographical subject, and questions of completeness, accuracy and memory in the creation of autobiography. Chapter Two begins with the idea …