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Trop De Soleil Tue L'Amour : Une Expression De L'Écriture Du Mal-Être De Mongo Beti, Rodolphine Sylvie Wamba Dec 2004

Trop De Soleil Tue L'Amour : Une Expression De L'Écriture Du Mal-Être De Mongo Beti, Rodolphine Sylvie Wamba

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The classical and dissident African writer Mongo Beti perpetually uses the theme of man’s quest for freedom in everything he does. In fact, the philosophy of “Rubénism” is found in each of his works. Given that man must survive in the “ocean of shit” he lives in, the writer, using a popular language, freely chooses to add some humour to everyday life. Thus, the text we studied appeared as a genuine thriller, complete with comedy and tragedy, which presents a deviation from more formal writing. This is the main idea of this analysis, which consists of showing Trop de soleil …

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La Vie Et Demie Ou Les Corps Chaotiques Des Mots Et Des Êtres, Caroline Giguère Dec 2004

La Vie Et Demie Ou Les Corps Chaotiques Des Mots Et Des Êtres, Caroline Giguère

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Due to its polysemy, corporality has several functions in the works of Sony Labou Tansi. More than descriptive or thematic elements, the novelistic bodies in La vie et demie are at the same time meeting points for multiple meanings, objects and producers of discourse. This study aims to demonstrate how the writing of the body is symbolic of a disorder that characterizes the forms and contents of Sony Labou Tansi’s novels and invites the reader to reflect on language and its power.

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Face À La Meute – Narration Et Folie Dans Les Romans De Boubacar Boris Diop, Susanne Gehrmann Dec 2004

Face À La Meute – Narration Et Folie Dans Les Romans De Boubacar Boris Diop, Susanne Gehrmann

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The article analyses the narrative techniques and the theme of madness in three novels by the Senegalese writer Boubacar Boris Diop, caracterised by narrative polyphony and metatextual reflexion on the production of a story. The speech of protagonists affected by “intellectual madness” plays a strategic role in the structure of the novel which, as a hybrid genre, draws on oral and literary traditions in a still splintered aesthetic. The image of the pack represents an unreasonnable society condemning a so-called mad individual whose madness consists in bringing a counter-memory of the foundation myths.

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Folie Et Écriture Dans Calomnies De Linda Lê, Ching Selao Dec 2004

Folie Et Écriture Dans Calomnies De Linda Lê, Ching Selao

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This article proposes to explore the many faces of madness through a reading of Linda Lê’s Calomnies, in which two narrative voices are presented. The following shall demonstrate how this novel reproduces a “romantic” perception of madness as encountered in Michel Foucault’s work. Although this narrative text introduces a mad narrator speaking in the “I” persona, it nonetheless points out the difficulties of letting madness speak for itself. These difficulties are also examined in this study.

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Les Pouvoirs Du Récit : Un Remède Au Chaos Du Monde? En Attentant Le Vote Des Bêtes Sauvages, Madeleine Borgomano Dec 2004

Les Pouvoirs Du Récit : Un Remède Au Chaos Du Monde? En Attentant Le Vote Des Bêtes Sauvages, Madeleine Borgomano

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Right from his first novel, Les Soleils des Indépendances (1970), Kourouma introduced the theme of the reversed world, a baroque metaphor for the state of Africa after Independence. In Monnè (1990), telling the history of this reversal, he insisted on its linguistic roots. Consequently, En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages (1998) shows how this reversal in the context of Cold War, favoured the genesis and development of dictatorial powers leading to an actual apocalypse. This victory of Chaos is told as a donsomana, traditional song of expiation among the Malinke hunters. The forms and magic virtues of this song …

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The Catholic Church In Hungary Now, András Máté-Tóth Dec 2004

The Catholic Church In Hungary Now, András Máté-Tóth

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Shrader's "The Muslim-Croat Civil War In Central Bosnia – A Military History, 1992-1994" - Book Review, Tal Tovy Dec 2004

Shrader's "The Muslim-Croat Civil War In Central Bosnia – A Military History, 1992-1994" - Book Review, Tal Tovy

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Evanston After Fifty Years, Norman A. Hjelm Dec 2004

Evanston After Fifty Years, Norman A. Hjelm

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Modernist Hermeneutics In Ottokar Prohaszka, Leslie A. Muray Dec 2004

Modernist Hermeneutics In Ottokar Prohaszka, Leslie A. Muray

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Church And State Relations In Present-Day Serbia: Part I A Brief Historical Overview Of Serbia: Important Issues Of Religious Identity, Angela Ilić Dec 2004

Church And State Relations In Present-Day Serbia: Part I A Brief Historical Overview Of Serbia: Important Issues Of Religious Identity, Angela Ilić

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Hundert's "Jews In Poland-Lithuania In The Eighteenth Century" - Book Review, Stephen J. Chernoski Dec 2004

Hundert's "Jews In Poland-Lithuania In The Eighteenth Century" - Book Review, Stephen J. Chernoski

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Bönker, Müller, & Pickel's “Towards A New Paradigm In Transitology Postcommunist Transformation And The Social Sciences: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches" - Book Review, Boyka Stefanova Oct 2004

Bönker, Müller, & Pickel's “Towards A New Paradigm In Transitology Postcommunist Transformation And The Social Sciences: Cross-Disciplinary Approaches" - Book Review, Boyka Stefanova

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Advice From St. Maximos Confessor For Contemporary Macedonians, James R. Payton Jr. Oct 2004

Advice From St. Maximos Confessor For Contemporary Macedonians, James R. Payton Jr.

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

All three of our monotheistic religions rely on the divine Word, written for us: for Jews in the Tanakh, for Christians also in the New Testament, and for Muslims as well in the Qur’an. For all our disagreements with each other, we recognize a common rootedness in a tradition of faith finding its beginning in Abraham, for Jews carried forward by the patriarchs and Moses, for Christians fulfilled in Jesus Christ, and for Muslims culminating in Muhammed. Consequently, even in the midst of the tensions that have separated our faiths over the centuries and have contributed recently to the tensions …

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Eastern Europe: Osce Conference On Discrimination - A Regional Survey, Felix Corley Oct 2004

Eastern Europe: Osce Conference On Discrimination - A Regional Survey, Felix Corley

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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The Liberal Arts Academy - A Minority Report, W. John Coats Sep 2004

The Liberal Arts Academy - A Minority Report, W. John Coats

Convocation Addresses

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Fairbairn’S "Eastern Orthodoxy Through Western Eyes" - Book Review, Walter D. Ray Aug 2004

Fairbairn’S "Eastern Orthodoxy Through Western Eyes" - Book Review, Walter D. Ray

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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What Does It Mean To Be A Missionary Church Today?, Janos Pasztor Aug 2004

What Does It Mean To Be A Missionary Church Today?, Janos Pasztor

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Reflections On The Contemporary Religious "Revival" Religion, Secularization, Globalization, Nonka Bogomilova Aug 2004

Reflections On The Contemporary Religious "Revival" Religion, Secularization, Globalization, Nonka Bogomilova

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Queer Studies In Eastern Europe: Lgbtq Scholars Convene In Fifth Conference In Poland, Tomek Kitlinski, Pawel Leszkowicz Jul 2004

Queer Studies In Eastern Europe: Lgbtq Scholars Convene In Fifth Conference In Poland, Tomek Kitlinski, Pawel Leszkowicz

Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)

The International Conference of LGBTQ Studies was held in Poland from May 24-26, 2004. Themed as "Europe without Homophobia," the conference at Wroclaw University brought together an international group of scholars and activists to discuss homophobia, both in its global and East European forms.

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Werewere Liking Et La Poétique Du Jeu Pour Libérer L'Imaginaire Postcolonial Africain, Kasereka Kavwahirehi Jun 2004

Werewere Liking Et La Poétique Du Jeu Pour Libérer L'Imaginaire Postcolonial Africain, Kasereka Kavwahirehi

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This essay addresses the issue of poetics and political stakes in Werewere Liking's novel, Elle sera de jaspe et de corail. While this novel has been presented as illustrative of the Negro-African aesthetics rooted in orality, the present article argues that Liking's poetics of hybridity is a postcolonial strategy whose aim is the liberation of African imagination and creativity. The essay ends by suggesting some similarities between Liking's project and that of the Congolese philosopher, especially in his philosophical essay, L'Afrique va-t-elle mourir? Bouscu/er l'imaginaire africain. Through their works, Ka Mana and Werewere Liking are examining the conditions for a …

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Mango Beti Et Les Mythologies Postcoloniales : Héritier Et Inspirateur, Nathalie Etoke Jun 2004

Mango Beti Et Les Mythologies Postcoloniales : Héritier Et Inspirateur, Nathalie Etoke

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Mango Beti belongs to a nationalist tradition embodied by Ruben Um Nyobe, the Cameroonian revolutionary. This paper analyzes how the writer manages to rebuild the aborted Rubenist ideal through fictional devices. Charismatic leaders such as Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela, who have been able to bring about social change and improve the living conditions of their people, also nurture Beti's political commitment. What is the link between the writer and these inspiring men? Is Mongo Beti himself a similar inspiration for other African writers?

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L'Image Des Réfugiés Et Des Personnes Déplacées Dans La Fiction Africaine Francophone, Augustin H. Asaah Jun 2004

L'Image Des Réfugiés Et Des Personnes Déplacées Dans La Fiction Africaine Francophone, Augustin H. Asaah

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

In their capacity as moralists and committed intellectuals, African Francophone writers such as C.C. Sow, N.N. Ndjekery, M.S. Keita, F. Couao-Zotti, Ahmadou Kourouma, Nimrod and E. Dongala portray various images of refugees and internally displaced persons in their works. This depiction is driven by the perceived need to humanize these displaced members of society by establishing moral/affective bridges between unfortunate members of society and readers. It is also sustained by the desire to reduce the damage caused by wars and natural disasters, as well as the need to reveal the plural identities of humans to the world.

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Overcoming The Totalitarian Past, Sergey Averintsev Jun 2004

Overcoming The Totalitarian Past, Sergey Averintsev

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Orthodoxy In A New Europe: Problems And Perspectives, Bishop Hilarion Jun 2004

Orthodoxy In A New Europe: Problems And Perspectives, Bishop Hilarion

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Orthodoxy In America: Diaspora Or Church?, Reverend Leonid Kishkovsky Jun 2004

Orthodoxy In America: Diaspora Or Church?, Reverend Leonid Kishkovsky

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Czech Protestants Between Socialist Czechoslovakia And European Union, Petr Pokorný Jun 2004

Czech Protestants Between Socialist Czechoslovakia And European Union, Petr Pokorný

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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Slovak Lutheran Social Ethics, Past And Present, Vasil Gluchman Jun 2004

Slovak Lutheran Social Ethics, Past And Present, Vasil Gluchman

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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A Thematic Content Analysis Of National Anthems: Europe Vs. Members Of The Arab League, Ibpp Editor Apr 2004

A Thematic Content Analysis Of National Anthems: Europe Vs. Members Of The Arab League, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The authors conduct a political psychological analysis of national anthems from European, African, and Middle Eastern nations. Their results focus on the difference between anthems of European nations and members of the Arab League, and potential reasons behind those differences.

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Intelligence And Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Ibpp Editor Apr 2004

Intelligence And Weapons Of Mass Destruction, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the ramifications of the lack of epistemological underpinnings from which the rightness or wrongness regarding WMD in Iraq can be constructed and adjudicated.

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Aagaard & Bouteneff's "Beyond The East-West Divide: The World Council Of Churches And The Orthodox Problem" - Book Review, Paul L. Gavrilyuk Apr 2004

Aagaard & Bouteneff's "Beyond The East-West Divide: The World Council Of Churches And The Orthodox Problem" - Book Review, Paul L. Gavrilyuk

Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe

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