French and Francophone Language and Literature Commons^™

Turn-Taking And Gaze Behavior Among Cajun French And Cajun English Speakers In Avoyelles Parish, Andrew Mandell Riviere

LSU Master's Theses

Languages are the verbal and non-verbal codes of a culture. A culture houses a language(s) and is comprised of the gaze and distance/use of personal sphere. Linguists and anthropologists have long since argued over which takes priority: culture or language. French and Louisiana are synonymous: it is unimaginable to picture Louisiana without French because French constitutes the culture in Louisiana. Since linguists have debated the priority of language or culture, looking at Louisiana within the confines of this debate proves informative.

The language shift forced upon the residents of South Louisiana by the 1921 State Legislature made English the sole …

La Socialité En Chaîne Et En Réseau Dans Les Egarements Du Cœur Et De L’Esprit De Crébillon Fils, Olivier M. Delers

Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications

L’importance politique de l’oeuvre de Sade n’est plus à démontrer – on peut citer en exemple les analyses d’Adorno et Horkheimer sur Justine ou plus récemment le travail de Frances Ferguson sur la nature de l’action chez Sade. Colette Cazenobe a quant à elle ouvert la voie d’une lecture politique de Crébillon dans son Crébillon fils ou la politique dans le boudoir. J’aimerai ici ouvrir un autre filon dans l’interprétation des textes de Crébillon en m’appuyant sur le travail critique effectué par Roland Barthes dans son Sade, Fourrier, Loyola. En fin lecteur des implications théoriques de la fiction …

Représentations De La Mort Dans La Chine De Claudel Et De Verne, Peter Schulman

World Languages and Cultures Faculty Publications

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The Edifying Spectacle Of A Drowned Woman: Sympathy And Irony In Indiana, Kate Bonin

Modern Languages and Cultures Faculty Work

Indiana (1832): escapist romance or early feminist roman à these? Issues of stylistic choice and social conscience are intertwined in the question of how George Sand positioned—and re-positioned—her first independent entry into the changing field of the novel. Although the novel treats such serious subjects as a wife’s socially-sanctioned abuse by her husband, and the corruption of the failing years of the Bourbon Restoration, both Indiana’s narrator and Sand herself repeatedly denied that the work was meant to convey any ulterior message or offer moral utility to its reader. These denials should not be dismissed as mere pro forma modesty, …

Ananda Devi's Narrative Strategies And Subversions., Ritu Tyagi

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation proposes a feminist narratological study of texts by Ananda Devi, a contemporary Francophone writer from Mauritius. I examine three principle narrative strategies that allow Devi to challenge the dominant androcentric discourses. These discourses ignore the feminine world of domesticity and impose images of submission on women, thereby curbing feminine expression and quest. Inspired by the efforts of critics such as Alison Case, Robyn Warhol, Susan Lanser to study narrative structures in the context of cultural constructions of gender, I argue that Devi employs narrative strategies that allow her marginalized narrators to intervene in dominant structures of narrative construction …

Review : The Yambo Ouologuem Reader : The Duty Of Violence, A Black Ghostwriter's Letter To France, And The Thousand And One Bibles Of Sex By Christopher Wise., Ann Elizabeth Willey

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

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