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Lucie Cousturier: The Female Voice And Travel Narratives In Colonial West Africa, Ashley Gushulak
Lucie Cousturier: The Female Voice And Travel Narratives In Colonial West Africa, Ashley Gushulak
Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs
In this thesis, I analyze Lucie Cousturier’s two major works, Des Inconnus chez eux (1920) and Mes Inconnus chez moi (1925) in which she navigates the discourses of imperialism, viewed as masculine, and of femininity. Through strategies of intimacy, Cousturier establishes her authority as a female travel writer. In her first work, Cousturier sets up an intimate relationship with the tirailleurs sénégalais by teaching them French and becoming a mother-figure to them. At the same time, Cousturier plays a role in France’s colonial agenda by teaching the soldiers French. In her second work, she establishes intimacy by adopting the local …