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Pour Une Reconstitution De La Mémoire Du Paysage Naturel De La Ville D’Oujda (Maroc Oriental) À Partir De La Perception Des Voyageurs Français De La Fin Du XixÈme Et Du Début Du XxÈme Siècles, Bouchra Benbella
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
Objectifs de cette étude-- Oujda: ville à la frontière avec l’Algérie, cité oubliée où le peu d’espaces verts qui reste rétrécit comme peau de chagrin. - Montrer des paysages naturels disparus ou dépéris de la ville d’Oujda, décrits par des voyageurs français avant et après le Protectorat français (1912), parce que préserver et avant tout connaître. - Sensibiliser la génération Z marocaine à son patrimoine national (local) et les exhorter à agir.
Corpus:
BERNARD, A. Les confins Algéro-marocains, Paris : Emile Larose, 1911
CANAL, J. La frontière marocaine. Oudjda 1885, Oran : Paul Perrier, 1886 ;
ELABBASSI, Ali Bey. …
French Club, Brett Foster, Madisen Bell
French Club, Brett Foster, Madisen Bell
Honors Program: Expanded Learning Clubs
Afterschool club that introduces French Language and Culture to young elementary students. Through hands-on activities and discussions, students will learn the basics of French Language and complete a French Journal full of everything they learned that semester to take home.
Sylvain Tesson : La Consolation De La Forêt, Sylvie Blum-Reid
Sylvain Tesson : La Consolation De La Forêt, Sylvie Blum-Reid
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
Sylvain Tesson est né sous les constellations du blaireau et de la forêt.2 Cet écrivain-voyageur, géographe de formation, a passé six mois dans une cabane en Sibérie, à la suite desquels il a publié son journal Dans les Forêts de Sibérie traduit en anglais par The Consolation of the Forest en 2011 (prix Médicis 2011). En plus de ses écrits, il est l’auteur de plusieurs documentaires filmés Aral: Chronique d’une mer asséchée, 2002 (Aral, the Sea than Ran dry, dir. Nicolas Millet, 42 min. , CNC),3 qui dénonce la catastrophe écologique de la mer d’Aral, asséchée depuis …
Expropriation And Forced Migrations: The Displacement Of Colonial Agricultural Laborers In Mohammed Dib’S Algerian Trilogy, Benjamin Sparks
Expropriation And Forced Migrations: The Displacement Of Colonial Agricultural Laborers In Mohammed Dib’S Algerian Trilogy, Benjamin Sparks
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
Mohammed Dib, in his Algerian trilogy, demonstrates the effects of expropriation and mendicancy on the patterns of migration of agricultural laborers, illustrating the historical context of colonial Algeria through the act of storytelling. Mohammed Dib in 1949 devised the idea to write “un roman aux proportions assez vastes qui devait présenter une sorte de portrait divers de l’Algérie” (Déjeux 145) which would later become what constitutes the Algerian trilogy consisting of La Grande maison published in 1952, L’Incendie in 1954, and finally Le Métier à tisser in 1957. The trilogy tells the story of Omar’s upbringing in colonial Algeria surrounded …
“Traduit De L’Américain” As Text And Paratext, Mort Guiney
“Traduit De L’Américain” As Text And Paratext, Mort Guiney
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
The online translation forum Wordreference.com contains a thread that began in July of 2005, discussing the use and possible abuse of the expression “traduit de l’américain” as it often, though not always, appears in the front matter of French translations of American literature. The discussion contains 197 posts covering a period of more than eight years; clearly, the use of “américain” in this context elicits strong reactions among literary experts, both Anglophone and Francophone. Does it imply that “Américain” is a different language from “Anglais”? Or that it is an inferior version of English? Why are some American novels published …
Remembering And Experiencing The Land In Exile In Marie-Célie Agnant’S La Dot De Sara And Gisèle Pineau’S L’Exil Selon Julia, Marie Paillard
Remembering And Experiencing The Land In Exile In Marie-Célie Agnant’S La Dot De Sara And Gisèle Pineau’S L’Exil Selon Julia, Marie Paillard
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
In novels that stage migratory pathways, the exploring characters can perform circulation through different channels and processes, without necessarily operating a physical movement. A geographical and a corporeal process exist, but even when the concrete, physical exploration stops, it is somehow also both lived, experienced, reconstructed and imagined differently through the body and through corporeal exploration. In this paper, I argue that embodied memory can circulate through points of entanglement without any process of movement physically occurring, and these points of entanglement can all be observed interacting in the body of the migrant. For instance, sensations enable the characters to …
Claiming The Land: The Spanish Presence In Colonial Algeria, Lavinia Horner
Claiming The Land: The Spanish Presence In Colonial Algeria, Lavinia Horner
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
Emmanuel Roblès: Both parents – Spanish descent
Albert Camus: Father – French; Mother – Spanish descent
Roblès’ and Camus’ literary as well as epistolary testimonies disrupt the French-Arab/Berber dichotomous colonial narrative, thus expanding pied-noir legacies and unraveling little-known aspects of the mostly forgotten, yet indelible Spanish presence in colonial Algeria.
The theoretical framework follows a multidisciplinary approach drawing from literature, psychology and legal studies to investigate how assertive literary testimonies can switch perspectives on what will be remembered.
If the understanding of history is not finalized, but open, then bringing to light little-known testimonies extant in both Roblès’ and Camus’ …
L’Art Féminin, Un Cri D’Espoir Pour L’Humanité, Zohra Lhioui
L’Art Féminin, Un Cri D’Espoir Pour L’Humanité, Zohra Lhioui
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
A travers une étude réalisée au Maroc, dans la Région de Meknès-Tafilalet (Centre-Est du royaume), et qui a été couronnée par la publication d’un ouvrage d’art portant le titre Femmes artistes de Meknès- Tafilalet (voir couverture jointe à cette proposition de communication), il ressort que l’art chez les femmes de cette région n’est pas une simple question de créativité et de passion, il est aussi un moyen esthétique d’exprimer la richesse du patrimoine, la culture de leur société et leur attachement à la nature, à l’environnement, bref à la vie tout court. Que ce soit par la danse, le stylisme, …
Un Regard Écopoétique Sur La Terre: Évolutions Du Paysage Français Dans La Photographie Contemporaine, Anaïs Belchun
Un Regard Écopoétique Sur La Terre: Évolutions Du Paysage Français Dans La Photographie Contemporaine, Anaïs Belchun
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
Graphiste, artiste et doctorante en Arts plastiques, Anaïs Belchun prépare une thèse intitulée « Écopoétique paysagère : une pensée de l’écologie à l’oeuvre dans les arts du paysage » sous les directions de Patrick Barrès et Sophie Lécole Solnychkine, au sein du LARA-SEPPIA (Université Toulouse - Jaurès). Elle étudie les pensées et pratiques de l’écologie et du paysage selon une approche transdisciplinaire, avec un objectif pédagogique. Sa démarche associe recherche scientifique et création artistique, autour d’un travail de terrain (enquête paysagère, sentier paysager, ateliers d’écoformation) et hors site (photographie, carnets d’artistes, expositions). Elle a organisé plusieurs manifestations scientifiques et artistiques …
Représentation De La Médina Chez Namouss Dans Le Fond De La Jarre D’Abdellatif Laâbi, Khanssaa Canning
Représentation De La Médina Chez Namouss Dans Le Fond De La Jarre D’Abdellatif Laâbi, Khanssaa Canning
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
Le Fond de la jarre d’Abdellatif Laâbi projette la médina de Fès sous une mise en scène totalement différente des anciennes représentations de ce même lieu par l’auteur, qui, depuis son expérience de l’incarcération de 1972 à1980, a pris des allures d’un espace dénaturé et impur. Une angoisse existentielle, une crise du Moi avait désormais habité Laâbi, depuis les années quatre-vingt ; plus spécifiquement, deux ans après sa libération de huit ans et demi d’emprisonnement (1982). Son oeuvre Le chemin des ordalies en dévoile les instances et interroge les contours de l’identité et de l’appartenance par rapport aux discours politique, …
Really, Warren Motte
Really, Warren Motte
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
The contemporary French novel is striking in its diversity, its complexity, and its resistance to easy classification. This is not an utterly new phenomenon (one recalls both Gide and Queneau, in the 1920s and 1930s respectively, describing the novel as a fundamentally lawless genre), but it is legitimate to say that the novel's horizon of possibility has broadened during our time, allowing for new kinds of expression. Those latter may be based in formalist experimentation (I'm thinking of writers like Jacques Roubaud, or Paul Fournel, or Stéphane Vanderhaeghe), or personal confession (Édouard Louis, Camille Laurens, Philippe Forest, for instance), or …
Narrateur, Narration Et Roman À Thèse Dans Sérotonine, Gerald Prince
Narrateur, Narration Et Roman À Thèse Dans Sérotonine, Gerald Prince
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
Le narrateur autodiégétique de Sérotonine, on l'a déjà souvent remarqué, fait le portrait d'une dépression (la sienne) et oppose tradition et modernité, agriculture et industrie, campagne et ville, amour ou sexe (c'est, semble-t-il, un peu la même chose) et solitude ou séparation. Il souligne également les multiples formatages dont nous somme victimes, les nombreux mécanismes qui nous emprisonnent, tout en admettant que nous ne sommes pas entièrement déterminés et tout en détaillant une imposante série d'occasions perdues (qu'il s'agisse de proposer le mariage à la femme qu'on aime, de lui expliquer une infidélité ou de se tuer dans un …
Terre Brûlée : Une Éco-Poétique Du Vide, Pierre Taminiaux
Terre Brûlée : Une Éco-Poétique Du Vide, Pierre Taminiaux
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
Au XXIe siècle, les sociétés occidentales sont confrontées à de nouvelles formes de chaos. Celui-ci comporte plusieurs dimensions, à la fois sociales, culturelles et écologiques. L’art doit dès lors prendre en considération cette situation d’une manière ou d’une autre. C’est ce qui m’autorise à parler ici de mes images photographiques rassemblées sous le titre de Terre brûlée.
Celles-ci ont été prises à l’automne 2017, au Portugal, près de la ville de Leiria, dans une forêt de bord de mer (une pinède, plus exactement) qui fut longtemps considérée dans l’histoire de ce pays comme un domaine royal. Cette saison fut …
20th & 21st Century French And Francophone Studies International Colloquium, University Of Nebraska, March 26-28, 2020: Call For Papers, Program, And Plenary Speakers
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
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Plenary Speakers: Scholastique Mukasonga, Nicolas Kurtovitch, Marie-Célie Agnant, Stephanie Posthumus
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« Ceindre La Terre » : Sur Quelques Tours Du Monde, Jean-François Duclos
« Ceindre La Terre » : Sur Quelques Tours Du Monde, Jean-François Duclos
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
« La vie est ronde », écrit Joë Bousquet en 1946. Le constat, cela va sans dire, est le même s’agissant de la Terre et nourrit l’imaginaire depuis qu’on tient le fait pour acquis. « Métaphore du cercle » de Robert Poulet, « phénoménologie du rond » de Gaston Bachelard, et depuis quelque temps l’idée de « planétarité » : chaque époque offre le moyen de spéculer sur ce que, dans leur essai intitulé « The Planetary Condition », Elias et Moraru décrivent comme « a structure of awareness1 ». Se soumettre à l’évidence de cette géométrie constitue une manière …
Ce Que Le Mirage Doit À L’Oasis De Yasmina Khadra: Comment Devient-On Enfant Du Sahara ?, Brigitte Tsobgny
Ce Que Le Mirage Doit À L’Oasis De Yasmina Khadra: Comment Devient-On Enfant Du Sahara ?, Brigitte Tsobgny
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
Être un enfant du Sahara, est-ce seulement être capable d’escalader pieds nus les barkhanes brûlantes ? Dans Ce que le mirage doit à l’oasis, Yasmina Khadra invite le lecteur à découvrir son Sahara natal à travers différents personnages. Pour les uns, le Sahara c’est l’ennui, le silence, l’immobilité. Pour d’autres, c’est un lieu d’inspiration, de méditation, de prières ou d’apaisement. Pour d’autres encore, c’est un terrain vague juste bon pour les courses automobiles ou des essais nucléaires. Les narcissiques y voient une terre de conquête, les jihadistes ont fait de ses grottes des repaires d’assassins. La culture ou l’époque peuvent-elle …
The Returns Of The Roman De La Terre : Défricheurs And Their Migrant Others In The Canadien Imaginary, Alvin Y. Chuan
The Returns Of The Roman De La Terre : Défricheurs And Their Migrant Others In The Canadien Imaginary, Alvin Y. Chuan
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
The theme “parler la terre” presents an opportunity to reconsider Québec’s romans de la terre—farm novels from the turn of the Nineteenth Century into the Twentieth that are often considered to be the inaugural works of the province’s literary canon. Variously known as the “roman du territoire” or the “roman paysan”, this genre, with its idealized depictions of colonization and rural life, helped articulate what literary historian Dorothee Scholl would call the mythe du terroir—or in her own words, “the mythologizing of the soil as the site of French-Canadian national identity (103).” At the height of their popularity, these …
Reading Antelme With Levinas: Recreational Activities In Concentration Camps, Arwa Reda
Reading Antelme With Levinas: Recreational Activities In Concentration Camps, Arwa Reda
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
Whether humanities humanize or not has always been a question that gathered both its proponents and opponents. Between those who confirm the statement and those who adamantly repudiate it, history has provided instances that simultaneously bear out both positions. Rather than attempting to prove or to deny the humanizing aspect of language and literature, this article looks at the matter from a different angle. Instead of the either-or argument, I propose the how as a bedrock of understanding the way humanities can humanize. Many camp survivors extolled what could be qualified as a redemptive force of language and literature. A …
La Terre Natale : À La Source De L’Écriture, Chez Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Michèle Druon
La Terre Natale : À La Source De L’Écriture, Chez Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Michèle Druon
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
"Mais le pays natal est moins une étendue qu’une matière ; c’est un granit ou une terre, un vent ou une sécheresse, une eau ou une lumière ; c’est par lui que notre rêve prend sa juste substance ; c’est à lui que nous demandons notre couleur fondamentale." --Gaston Bachelard, L’Eau et les Rêves.
Tout au long de son oeuvre, Colette a cherché à ressusciter dans ses textes le « paradis terrestre » de son pays natal, la Bourgogne, et le rêve profond qui lui est attaché. Déjà évoquée dans les scènes campagnardes du premier Claudine (Claudine à l’Ecole, …
Reconceptualizing Time, Space And Social Relationships: Queer Acts Of Resistance By An Aids Patient In Hervė Guibert’S To The Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, Salvador Lopez-Rivera
Reconceptualizing Time, Space And Social Relationships: Queer Acts Of Resistance By An Aids Patient In Hervė Guibert’S To The Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, Salvador Lopez-Rivera
20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium
Although Hervé Guibert’s poignant account of his life as an AIDS patient in his 1990 novel with autobiographical elements To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life (original French title: À l’ami qui n’a pas sauvé ma vie ) earned him staggering critical and commercial success in his native France, the novel’s highly personal depiction of the AIDS crisis did not please French AIDS crisis activists, who criticized that it favored the author’s individual experiences with AIDS rather than documenting the sociopolitical processes that led to its development as a public health crisis disproportionately affecting sex and gender minorities …
Presénces Polyvalentes: Protean Polynesian Voices In The Works Of Rai Chaze And Titaua Peu, Julia Frengs
Presénces Polyvalentes: Protean Polynesian Voices In The Works Of Rai Chaze And Titaua Peu, Julia Frengs
French Language and Literature Papers
IN AN INTERVIEW conducted in May 2013, the same month in which French Polynesia was inscribed on the United Nations list of countries to be decolonized, the archipelago's best-known writer, Chantal Spitz, declared:
L'Océanie est une et multiple. Une parce qu'habitée par un méme peuple originel venue d'Asie du Sud-Est, notamment Taiwan, qui s'est installé au fil de voyages océaniques a bord de pirogues à double coque et en suivant les étoiles, sur les îles du Pacifique. Multiple par la variété des adaptations imposées à ce peuple par des environnements géographiques souvent très différents et des colonisations européennes diverses. (19) …
Untitled: Deconstruction And Reconstruction Of Identity In Le Chevalier De La Charrette And The Romance Of Tristran, Devin Louise Moulton
Untitled: Deconstruction And Reconstruction Of Identity In Le Chevalier De La Charrette And The Romance Of Tristran, Devin Louise Moulton
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Questions of identity are a central source of tension within the genre of the chivalric romances. Even among the large collective that is King Arthur’s court, innumerable romances recount the tales of individual knights in search of individual glory and of some way to distinguish their names among the masses of the court and the group of knights across chivalric traditions while simultaneously bound by the confines of that same group and its structures. For most, such a feat is impossible and many knights, though they may earn a name in the course of a single romance, never truly break …
Franish Club, Exploring The French And Spanish Language, Chloe Molnar, Daniela Asplin
Franish Club, Exploring The French And Spanish Language, Chloe Molnar, Daniela Asplin
Honors Program: Expanded Learning Clubs
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Fren 302: Representative Authors Ii-A Peer Review Of Teaching Benchmark Portfolio, Julia Frengs
Fren 302: Representative Authors Ii-A Peer Review Of Teaching Benchmark Portfolio, Julia Frengs
UNL Faculty Course Portfolios
This portfolio traces the process of the design, teaching methods, and assessment tools I used in my first time teaching a survey of French literature course, FREN 302, or “Representative Authors II.” The primary goal of the course is to introduce students to “masterpieces” of French literature spanning from the Middle Ages to the present. The course is certified for the ACE 5 outcome, which emphasizes the use of analysis and interpretation. My own principal objective for the course, developing student autonomy and critical thinking skills, which intersects with this ACE 5 outcome, is the main focus of this study. …
Cultivating Our Garden, Daniela Chavez
Cultivating Our Garden, Daniela Chavez
Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects
Candide by Voltaire promotes social reform in areas dealing with injustice and corrupt power–especially in religious organizations. One biographical book, one master of arts thesis, and two literary criticism essays were read to further expand the reader’s understanding of Candide. The impact religious organizations had on Voltaire and on European societies, their insincerity, and the abuse of their power sparked a fervent desire in Voltaire to criticize such institutions in order to reinvigorate the rights and freedoms of citizens and eliminate the abuses that societies continued to bear. The last phrase in the novel reflects Voltaire’s call to speak …
Voltaire The Feminist, Esdras Castaneda
Voltaire The Feminist, Esdras Castaneda
Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects
Voltaire was not the common Enlightened philosopher. No, he was one of the great ones. And especially critical in the fight for social justice and equality for women. Voltaire did not write about women. Typically, women were seen as weak, fragile, had pale skin, and were very thin. But Voltaire wrote about them in the exact opposite way. They were as strong, resilient, and brave as any man. And they were buxom, plump, and provocative. Voltaire purposefully writes this way to switch the gender roles; to show that women could be anything a man could be. That they could be …
Voltaire, A Modern-Day Realist, Sebastian Valdiviezo
Voltaire, A Modern-Day Realist, Sebastian Valdiviezo
Nebraska College Preparatory Academy: Senior Capstone Projects
Voltaire, arguably one of the most influential and crucial characters during the Enlightenment period. He was able to implement his ideologies while criticizing social norms in many of his literary works. Influenced by the many fortunes and tragedies of his time, he was able to transform these events and constitute them into a philosophy that changed the world forever. Challenging the ideas of his time, Voltaire writes Candide to criticize the optimistic ideologies held by many of the other philosophers of his time.
Many would agree in calling Candide a guideline into a small overview of Voltaire’s philosophy. He constantly …
What Women Know: The Power Of Savoir In Marguerite De Navarre’S Heptaméron, Nora Martin Peterson
What Women Know: The Power Of Savoir In Marguerite De Navarre’S Heptaméron, Nora Martin Peterson
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Faculty Publications
The verbs savoir and connaître appear in central moments in the Heptaméron. Knowledge—as it appears in the frame narrative and in the novellas—can be a way for men and women to debate, among many other things, the relationship between the sexes. When women use this word, or when they demonstrate that they know something, it creates the space to participate – not always unambiguously – in otherwise male-dominated conversations. How Marguerite writes about the acquisition, possession, fragmentation, or loss of knowledge, underscores her interest in exploring the role of women in communities of knowledge.
La Colonisation, L’Identité Et L’Ambition Dans Deux Romans Francophones, Abdulameer Waly
La Colonisation, L’Identité Et L’Ambition Dans Deux Romans Francophones, Abdulameer Waly
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Cette étude se focalise sur la crise d’identité dans deux textes africains, écrit en français, Une vie de boy, de Ferdinand Oyono, et L’ex-père de la nation d’Aminata Sow Fall. Les personnages principaux de ces deux romans se trouvent dans des situations compliquées à cause des traces laissés par l’époque coloniale. Ils se trouvent déchirés entre le désir de garder leurs modes de vie traditionnelles, et la nécessité de se modifier avec la nouvelle culture qui s’impose et change irrévocablement la vie de ces personnages. Ils n’arrivent pas à concilier leurs rêves, ou leurs ambitions, avec la réalité de leurs …
Penelope’S Daughters, Barbara Dell`Abate-Çelebi
Penelope’S Daughters, Barbara Dell`Abate-Çelebi
Zea E-Books Collection
A feminist perspective of the myth of Penelope in Annie Leclerc’s Toi, Pénélope, Margaret Atwood’s The Penelopiad and Silvana La Spina’s Penelope.
At the origin of Western literature stands Queen Penelope—faithfully waiting for her husband to come home: keeping house, holding on to the throne, keeping the suitors at arm’s length, preserving Odysseus’ place and memory, deserted for the pursuit of war and adventures, and bringing up a son alone, but always keeping the marriage intact. Yet recently the character of Penelope, long the archetype of abandoned, faithful, submissive, passive wife, has been reinterpreted by feminist criticism and re-envisioned by …