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Identité Féminine Et Amour Interculturel Dans Shérazade : 17 Ans, Brune, Frisée, Les Yeux Verts De Leila Sebbar, Mon Examen De Blanc De Jacqueline Manicom Et Le Baobab Fou De Ken Bugul, Eimma Chebinou
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This Master's Thesis examines what happens when African and Caribbean characters in France or in their own country meet the Other in Francophone literature. How do interracial relationships construct/deconstruct the concept of an intertwined identity? This comparative project explores three 20th century Francophone women writers from Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and the West Indies in order to show how their novels construct or deconstruct the identities of migrated female characters through their interracial erotic and amorous relationships. Starting with Plato's Banquet which describes the origin of love as a splitting of identity and the quest of love as a quest …
The Political Pilgrim: William Lithgow Of Lanark On God And Country, Philip Anthony Davis
The Political Pilgrim: William Lithgow Of Lanark On God And Country, Philip Anthony Davis
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Travel literature has been understood to comment on the expectations and impressions of the traveler as they encountered foreign spaces, customs, and people. There has been an unspoken understanding, at best, that travelers who wrote their tales used these foreign spaces to engage in debates that were meaningful to their domestic audience. However, the author has been central to much of the analysis, disconnecting travel literature from other linguistic exercises that more directly offered observations that were directly rooted in domestic culture. Author-centered analysis isolates the traveler from the wider world in which they engaged. It also ignores the other …
The Meaning Of Stories Without Meaning: A Post-Holocaust Experiment, Tori Chambers Lockler
The Meaning Of Stories Without Meaning: A Post-Holocaust Experiment, Tori Chambers Lockler
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Dissonance exists in efforts to communicate about suffering and despair. Showcasing common societal flawed reactions to despair begs for discourse to create a more communicatively healthy response. Attempting to communicate the suffering of others and feeling like I was failing at that goal led to my own suffering. Using writing as a method of personal healing created an intersection of personal narratives of suffering and victim’s narratives (which can arguable only allow for the co-opting of the story and narcissism). Grappling with the limits of writing to heal provided a lens to see the victim’s narratives in such a way …