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L’Aventure Ambiguë De Hamidou Kane : Modernités En Abyme, Elisabeth Mudimbe-Boyi

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The article seeks to revisit the interpretation of L’aventure ambiguë by proposing a reading that goes well beyond a simple binarism opposing tradition and modernity. The analysis emphasizes the philosophical dimension of the novel in order to show that African modernity is at the same time representation and critique of the Western modernity inscribed in abyme within the novel. Such approach allows the work to escape the prison house of contingency and to remain open and meaningful in different times and spaces.

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Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Les Lézardes Du Sens Dans Les Romans D’Ahmadou Kourouma, Justin K. Bisanswa

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The text illustrates that Kourouma’s novels act as an exemplary exteriorisation of a singular point of view on the world, while also acting as a space of transformation, touching both the anecdotes told and the process of narration. Through the general nature of their titles, the novels do not so much designate a décor, but rather an image of the human condition in which life governed by destiny fi nds, in the heart of social decay, a metaphor – both sombre and precise – for postcolonial Africa. Thus, the novels do not entirely absorb this philosophy of existence upheld by …

Henri Lopes : L’Écrivain Et Ses Doubles, Anthony Mangeon

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Henri Lopes’ novels display both a staging and a deep reflection on the African writer’s figure. His metatextual and metafictional practices reveal tensions inherent to the literary field as well as some literary postures available to African novelists. Different intertextual games (with existing literary works, with fictitious pieces of writing, between the different narratives imagined by Lopes himself) underscore the mimical and antagonist relationships between writers, characters and the symbolical figures of the author and the father. This allows the novelist to present himself as both a politically committed and a culturally hybrid writer.

Raharimanana : Écrire Pour Dégorger Le Cri Malgache, Françoise Simasotchi-Bronès

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Motivated by the need to be heard and to express a Madagascan cry suffocated by colonial and postcolonial history, the work of writer J.-L. Raharimanana fi ts remarkably well in the francophone literary landscape. It is characterised by writing in constant oxymoronic tension between violence and poetry. Once associated with humour and poetry, violence, portrayed as a residual component of colonial times, becomes energy to be recycled. This innovative force is at the origin of the author’s verbal and generic creativity. The aesthetic of violence in Rharimanana’s texts upholds a profoundly singular poetic and leads to the conclusion that the …

Dialogue Des Genres Et Écriture De L’Imaginaire Social Chez Tchicaya U Tam’Si Et Modibo Sounkalo Keita, Sylvère Mbondobari

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This article examines intertextual, intercultural and intergeneric relationships in the francophone crime novel. Always in dialogue with more conventional francophone fi ction, the crime novel is both a social reality and the refl ection of a collective imaginary. Marked by aesthetic renewal, it can be considered the expression of a world vision belonging to its target audience.

Espaces, Savoirs Et Historicité Dans Le Feu Des Origines D’Emmanuel Dongala, Kasereka Kavwahirehi

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This article demonstrates how, in Le feu des origines, the main character’s trajectory embodies the figuration of the history of African societies and the mutations of knowledge and belief systems that occurred during that very history. Thus, this text proposes a reflection on the manner in which a conflict plays out between old and new conceptions of the world, as well as the political and metaphysical implications of the replacement of old ways of thinking by new theories or scientific practices and techniques.

Le Peuple Des Terres Mêlées De René Philoctète : Au-Delà De La Spirale. Oraliture, Rupture(S) Et Convergence(S), Mamadou Wattara

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The relationship between Haiti and the Domincan Republic is often analyzed through the prism of the century-old rivalry which opposed the two countries at specifi c times during the course of their history. Le peuple des terres mêlées is about one of the darkest chapter of this troubled and turbulent past; the 1937 genocide of thousands of Haitians by the Dominican authorities. In the border town of Elias Piña, a Haitian, Adèle Benjamin and her Dominican husband, Pedro Alvarez Brito are caught up in the genocidal violence ordered by the dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo y Molina whose goal is to …

Odile Cazenave Et Patricia Célérier (2011). Contemporary Francophone African Writers And The Burden Of Commitment., Hervé Tchumkam

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Présence Francophone, Numéro 78 (2012)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Femmes Arabes Au Harem : La Magie Et Le Pouvoir De L’Oralité Dans L’Écriture De Fatima Mernissi, Samira Farhoud

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This article examines the polysemy of the word harem in several of Fatima Mernissi’s texts. Moreover, it considers the role of orality in the form of “oral archives” that were nurtured, maintained and passed on from mother to daughter. The related issue of Mernissi’s feminist activism is also analyzed. Women in Mernissi’s harem constructed complex narratives and “stories” that incorporated many fragments of “professional” or “national” histories, including the “official” history of Morocco’s attainment of independence in 1956. Accounts of femininist movements in the Middle East and Morocco, including the al-Safaa Akhwat or Sisters of Purity (1946) and the group’s …

Public And Private Space In Assia Djebar’S L 'Amour, La Fantasia And Ombre Sultane : Giving Voice To The Silenced History Of Algerian Women, Chedia Ayari

Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects

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La Littérature Des Enfants De Harkis : Mémoire Et Réconciliation, Vincent Jouane

All Theses and Dissertations (ETDs)

This dissertation focuses on a corpus of autobiographies and novels produced since 2002 by children, mainly daughters, of harkis: Algerian civilians who fought on the French side during the war of independence of Algeria between 1954 and 1962), including Dalila Kerchouche, Fatima Besnaci-Lancou and Zahia Rahmani. In this study, I have argued that this emerging literature differs from other "minor literatures," as defined by theorists Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, by the fact that these young authors withold the traditional discourse of victimization to emphasize dialogue and reconciliation. In the first chapter, I examine how the notion of historicity can …

Politique De La Traduction: Le Sous-Titrage De Références Liées À La Culture, Rebecca J. Marion

Scripps Senior Theses

Cette analyse examine la problématique du sous-titrage des références liées à la culture (RLC). On s’intéresse à une question fondamentale : Comment le sous-titrage des RLC oriente-t-il un film vers la culture cible et quelles sont les conséquences possibles de cette orientation? Dans le premier chapitre, je vais faire une étude de l’histoire de la traduction du cinéma. En analysant comment les distributeurs et les exploitants ont abordé la traduction audiovisuelle, je vais exposer l’influence importante des motivations nationalistes sur le développement des processus de traduction. Le deuxième chapitre traite des contraintes posées par le sous-titrage des références liées à …

Mme. De Pompadour: Self Promotion And Social Performance Through Architecture And The Decorative Arts, Kelly Elizabeth Boyd

Scripps Senior Theses

The structure of this thesis relies on the physical locations of Mme. de Pompadour. Although the chapters are roughly chronological, beginning with her arrival at Versailles in 1745 and ending with her death in 1764, this work makes no attempt to comprehensively chronicle the entirety of her involvement in the decorative arts. Rather, it focuses on several specific aspects of her patronage, with the goal of illuminating her social position and public image, and how she worked to control the two. Chapter One deals with the first rooms Mme. de Pompadour inhabited, from 1745-1750. These upper apartments characterize her early …

La Réconciliation De La Tradition Et De La Modernité Dans L’Adaptation Cinématographique Contemporaine Du Conte De Fées En France Et En Allemagne, Mirabelle Korn

Scripps Senior Theses

This thesis examines the adaptation of fairy tales in ten recent French and German films. It looks specifically at narrative structures, representations of magic, portrayals of childhood, and manifestations of good and evil. This thesis asks how and why contemporary French and German filmmakers choose, consciously or not, to update some of the central motifs of fairy tales for a modern audience and what attitudes toward the reconciliation of tradition and modernity those choices express.

The French Community At Uri: A Study Of Cultural And Linguistic Identity, Kayla L. Butts

Senior Honors Projects

The French Community at URI: A Study of Cultural and Linguistic Identity

Kayla Butts

Sponsor: Karen DeBruin, French

Growing up in a bi-racial family has always brought upon me the question of identity. To which culture do I belong and which values do I adopt? To make matters even more complex, I have fallen in love with the French culture and language and have chosen to major in it. Am I allowed to feel a part of this culture as well?

Whether it is part of ones ethnic background or not, human beings question if it is possible to truly …

Reviving The Surrealist Revolt: A Retracing Of Surrealism’S History And A Reimagining Of Its Future In Translation, Kyle Young

Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects

Although Surrealist writing has literary merit, Surrealist texts were written as revolutionary tracts meant to undermine the social order. Yet the politically radical aspects of the movement are no longer taken very seriously. At least one contributing factor to the current impotence of Surrealism is the approach taken in the translation of Surrealist texts. Many translators have presented Surrealist texts as they would traditionally present any literary document. However, Walter Benjamin’s writings on translation, in particular his essay “The Task of the Translator,” provide a novel conception of translation, one which can produce linguistically radical texts. I will argue that …

Répétez S’Il Vous Plaît !: L’Enseignement De La Compréhension Auditive Dans La Salle De Classe, Jordan M. Bessette

Senior Honors Projects

Foreign language acquisition is a subject of increasing importance in today’s world, acting as the backbone of international relations, trade and communication. In addition, through examination of a foreign culture and language, individuals can come to appreciate philosophies and values other than those pertaining to their own society. However, the difficulty and apparent uselessness of the subject material in the “here and now” dissuades many students from continuing language acquisition after obligatory general education requirements have been fulfilled. Through examining acquisition theories and factors which affect students’ motivation to continue second language acquisition; I developed a strategy in order to …

Âge D’Or Ou Déclin Avancé ? : Les Succès Et Les Échecs De La Iiie République En France, 1870-1940 (Golden Age Or Rusted Decline?: The Successes And Failures Of The Third Republic In France, 1870-1940), John R. Teevan Iii

Languages, Literatures & Cultures

After a crushing defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, the first durable manifestation of the principles of the 1789 French Revolution arose from the ashes of the defeated authoritarian Second Empire. The Third Republic is still today the longest-lasting regime in France after the fall of the Ancien Régime. However, the Third Republic is infamous for its inability to adjust to the devastating effects of World War One, the economic crisis during the Great Depression and the ideological polarization between Fascism and Communism. One of the main weaknesses of the regime is found in its ministerial instability. For example, between May …

Sous Le Macadam Deviancy, Abuse, And Underlying Hope In The Works Of Gisèle Pineau, Haley Bove

Honors Capstones

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L'Infirmière Française: Entre La Laïcité Et La Sentimentalité, Melanie R. Williams

Scripps Senior Theses

Le développement de la profession d’infirmière en France suivait un chemin nébuleux. L’infirmière en Angleterre et aux États-Unis venait facilement, mais la situation en France interdisait un processus similaire. L’avènement de l’infirmière française a eu lieu à travers des batailles idéologiques et physiques sous la Troisième République. Ces luttes montraient les conflits entre l’Église et la République, entre les femmes et les hommes, et celle de la Première Guerre mondiale. La manière dans laquelle chacun de ses batailles se passait se trouve en examinant les trois mouvements de la création de l’infirmière, les évènements de la guerre, et les images …

La Sociolinguistique Postcoloniale En Amérique Hispanophone Et En Afrique Francophone : Un Drame Linguistique En Deux Actes, Eva Valenti

Scripps Senior Theses

This thesis analyzes the sociolinguistic situations in postcolonial Latin America and francophone North Africa (the Maghreb) through a comparative lens. Specifically, it examines the ways in which Spain and France’s differing colonial agendas and language ideologies affected the relationships between colonizer and colonized, and, by extension, the role that Spanish and French play(ed) in these regions after decolonization. Finally, it explores how Spain and France’s contemporary discourses frame colonial participation in the two languages’ development, and the psychological effects these ideologies have had on the formerly colonized.

Pluralité Narrative Dans Les Liaisons Dangereuses De Choderlos De Laclos, Mélanie Gauchy

Syracuse University French Colloquium

No abstract provided.

Armed With A Smile Or A Dagger: Women In The French Resistance, Barbara Opar

Syracuse University French Colloquium

No abstract provided.

Manon Lescaut And Moral Relativism In 18th Century France, Nicole Harrison

Syracuse University French Colloquium

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15th Syracuse University French Colloquium Flyer, Department Of Languages, Literatures, And Linguistics, Syracuse University

Syracuse University French Colloquium

Quinzième colloque par les étudiants dans le programme de maîtrise en langue et littérature

Giraudoux At The Gates, Samantha Walker

Undergraduate Research Conference

An in-depth look at the original production of Jean Giraudoux's play Tiger at the Gates, how it had become such a famous performance, and how some of the intents of the playwright were not easily translated from French to English.