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Index (N° 55)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Front Matter And Table Of Contents (N° 55)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Présentation, Patricia-Pia Célérier

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Le Portrait Sociologique De La Femme Benjellounienne Dans Le Premier Amour Est Toujours Le Dernier, Ana Soler

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

An analysis of the female characters in this collection of short stories reveals two contradictory images of Woman: on the one hand, the discreet presence of Woman as an oppressed being, subjugated by Islamic dogma and, on the other, the much more salient emancipated woman who transgresses canonical principles. Hence, the appearance of two kinds of couples, both of which are shown to be the site of power struggles that ultimately veer towards a masters/ ave relationship. Pledged to defeat, love is thus presented as no more than a utopic quest.

Madame Arnoul De Jean-Noël Pancrazi : Algérie, Attachements, Arrachements, Anne-Marie Obajtek-Kirkwood

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This work narrates the childhood of a young Pied-Nair in colonial French Algeria, the first twelve years of his love for this colonized country. Yet these years were even more marked by the war which was to tear apart all the inhabitants, natives and colonizers alike, and lead the narrator and his family to exile. The text is therefore deeply structured by the two opposing poles of attachment and wrenching.

Rafika Merini, Two Major Francophone Women Writers, Assia Djebar And Leila Sebbar: A Thematic Study Of Their Works. New York : Peter Lang, 1999, 159 P., Mary Mccullough

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Parties Annexes (N° 55)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Présence Francophone, Numéro 55

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Déchirures De V. Y. Mudimbe Ou Le Cri Pour Un Renouveau Poétique En Afrique Centrale, Kavwahirehi Kasereka

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

V.Y. Mudimbe's Dechirures (1971) has been widely analyzed. Some critics have emphasized the poet's hermetism or intellectualism; others, his themes; still others attempt to reveal the moral lesson that emerges from his poetry. In this article, by focussing on the meaning of the poet's opening declaration ('I would like to cry out against poems''), by weighing quotations from Jean de la Croix, Rembrandt and Mallarme in the text, and by situating this collection in the context of African literature, the author is seeking to demonstrate that Dechirures can be considered as a manifesto for a postnegritude poetry. This new poet …

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Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Présence Francophone, Numéro 54

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Josias Semujanga, Dynamique Des Genres Dans Le Roman Africain: Éléments De Poétique Transculturelle, Paris, L'Harmattan, 1999, 208 P., André Djiffack

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Front Matter And Table Of Contents (N° 54)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Crosta, Suzanne (1998), Recits D'Enfance Antil/Aise, Saintefoy, Grelca, Coll. «Essais», N° 15; Crosta, Suzanne (Dir.) (1998), Recits De Vie De L'Afrique Et Des Antilles: Exil, Errance, Enracinement, Sainte-Foy, Grelca, Coll. «Essais», N° 16., Dennis F. Essar

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Index (N° 54)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Abstracts (N° 54)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Parties Annexes (N° 54)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Livres Reçus (N° 55)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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He Said, She Said: A Feminist Approach To Teaching The Twentieth-Century Novel In The Twenty-First Century, Elizabeth Richardson Viti

French Faculty Publications

The question of women's relationship to the literary canon is still pertinent today and is particularly significant for those of us who are both guided by feminist pedagogy and constrained by departmental limitations. How do we give an overview of the novel without either diminishing the importance of certain male novelists or eliminating female writers altogether? The author suggest that a thematic approach in which pairs of texts make explicit two different gender perspectives is useful. This approach underscores the notion that gender informs writing as well as reading and, equally significant, introduces feminist theory as a tool for literary …

Discours Préfaciel Et Poétique Africaine, Andre-Patient Bokiba

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The rather common use of a preface in African literature raises the question of the poetic value of such a practice. A preface written for the author by an older or recognized writer usually seeks to legitimate or consecrate that work. The author who writes his own preface, however, has other goals in mind and his preface is marked by a certain number of properties which, on a practical level, lend themselves to ambiguous interpretation. The present study is based on an analysis of some 100 introductory texts of all types. It concludes that, in writing his own preface, an …

Albert Cohen Et Les Enjeux De La Francophonie, Véronique Maisier

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The Swiss writer Albert Cohen learned very early to consider French his native language as opposed to the Greco-Venetian dialect spoken by his parents. The dilemma arising from conflicting forces between his Eastern Judaic heritage and his success as a Western Francophone writer caused a great deal of inner turmoil which manifested itself in his writings. This article examines the author's struggles in choosing the French language and underlines the consequences of his decisions.

Grand-Duché De Luxembourg: Les Raisons Et Les Modes D'Une Pratique Francophone, Frank Wilhelm

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Less well known because of its size, despite its political integration in the European Union, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is set apart by a practice of spoken French operating within the framework of a complex literary field marked by its national language, a dialect of Germanic origin. The first part of this article deals with socioeconomic and sociolinguistic aspects, relations with France, the teaching of French and questions that relate to writing. The second part details the specifics of a literary production in French that is amazingly varied.

Les Minorités Postcoloniales Face À La Francophonie, Alec C. Hargreaves

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The migratory flows from the former colonial territories have encountered in France a settling process of non-native populations, a growing proportion of whom, born of immigrant parents, have obtained French nationality. Literature, film and music reveal that, with respect to Francophonie, the current situation of these frequently stigmatized minorities overturns the traditional categories and demarcation lines between French and Francophones.

Crosscurrents And Confluences: Echoes Of Religion In Twentieth-Century Fiction, Eamon Maher

Books/Chapters

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L'Universalisation Actantielle Dans La Trilogie Tellurique De Driss Chraïbi, Violeta Ma Baena Gallé

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

In addition to following a similar argumental strand, the three books at which this story is aimed (Une enquete au pays, La Mere du printemps and Naissance a l'aube) bring forward in a constant way a set of formal, structural and thematic repetitions which allow us to consider them a trilogy. This work will be based on a study of these different constants which induce us to be aware of the fact that the three novels operate as a trilogy, especially if we look at the structure of the character system. Unlike the position of some critics who are content …

L'Histoire Et La Perception Du Temps: La Non-Linéarité Chez Assia Djebar, Deborah Hess

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

In Algeria, conflicts between Western and Arab-Muslim models have led to symbolically non-linear structures recalling mathematical and scientific principles. Assia Djebar seeks possible explanations for the violence of the nineties in the repression of certain political events that occurred during the struggle for independence. The gaps in the historical memory parallel Le Blanc de l'Algerie's fragmented a-chronological text.

Littérature Naturelle: Point De Passage De La Littérature «Beur», Habiba Sebkhi

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The literary works by so-called Beur writers have gained little recognition in most critical studies. It is as if these works have been confined to the space which produced them, the suburbs, symbol of marginality and illegitimacy. The present article proposes a new concept, «litterature naturelle», in an effort to define Beur literature as well as other writings presenting similar characteristics.

La Nouvelle En Haïti, Correspondance Du Nouveau Monde: Les Recueils De Yanick Lahens Et De Pascale Blanchard-Glass, Kathleen Gyssels

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The short story is very much alive in Haitian literature, most especially among women writers. As a favorite genre for describing insecurity on the sociocultural, political and identity level, it reflects the difficult circumstances in which short story writers labor and the obstacles that they encounter in finding a publisher, an audience, in a word, a place in the disporic field of Haitian literature. In particular, the short story genre allows for a formal, stylistic and structural hybridity that suits the writers' desire to experiment with narration even as they seek an appropriate voice.

Dany Laferrière, L'Identité Culturelle Et L'Intertexte Afro-Américain, Anne Marie Miraglia

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This study examines two novels by Dany Laferriere, Comment faire /'amour avec un negre sans se fatiguer (1985) and Cette grenade dans la main du jeune negre est-elle une bombe ou un fruit? (1993) in light

of their «Americanness» and their relations to the writings of the Afro- American writers Chester Himes and James Baldwin. The «Americanness»

of Laferriere's novels is apparent in the recurrence of typical American themes and characters and in the exploitation of proper nouns, myths and cliches that are specific to North America. Although Chester Himes' popular fiction appears to influence some of the stylistic and …

Arabo-Francophonie Et Enjeux Géolinguistiques En Méditerranée, Ahmed Moatassime

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The recently evolved notion of Arab-Francophonie refers to the geolinguistic, geopolitical synergy between the French-speaking communities in the North and the Arabic-speaking communities in the Maghreb and Machrek. In fact this synergy involves an uneven exchange in which French dominates. The French language, however, is facing its own challenge from globalization and information superhighways, where English overwhelmingly prevails. What are the implications of this struggle for Francophonie, in the North as well as the South?