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Brun, Charline. "Réminiscences africaines et littérature coloniale en Italie au vingtième siècle." Paris 3, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1995PA030018.
Full textConsidering the limited number of italian and french studies on the subject, this work aims at showing what relationship the italian imagination has been keeping up with africa throughout the twentieth century, paying particular attention to colonial literature. Falling into two main parts, it focuses on texts published from the origins of the italian settlement to the fall of colonial empire, and from decolonization to the present. The third section ismade up of an historical index, a short biography of all the authors quoted, maps and original texts with their translation
Faelli, Nicolas. "Réception de l’Histoire des colonies grecques dans la littérature coloniale des XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/229355.
Full textDuring the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries were the first european colonal empires at their highest points. The colonial race ended with the French and Indian war and the American Independence war. That period saw the rediscovery of ancient mythologic or historic sources, that helped many writers to understand the colonial evolution.The purpose of this thesis will be to understand how ancient Greek colonization was percieved during Modern Times and how authors compared the ancient colonies to current situations in North America.
Doctorat en Histoire, histoire de l'art et archéologie
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Monnier, Pierre-Emmanuel. "Représentations post-coloniales de l'Afrique et des Africains dans les oeuvres de Urs Widmer et Hans Christoph Buch, à la lumière des hypotextes coloniaux de Joseph Conrad et de Richard Kandt." Paris 12, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA120035.
Full textThe following dissertation is an imagological, comparative and postcolonial research about the representations of Africa and Africans in different works of contemporary German literature, which are hypertextually connected to works of European colonial literature. By taking 1m Kongo by Urs Widmer and Kain und Abel in Afrika by Hans Christoph Buch, it scrutinizes, on an exemplary basis and in new ways, the relationship of these post-colonial hypertexts to their underlying colonial subtexts: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad and Caput Nili by Richard Kandt. It is focused on evaluating, with the help of criteria developed within the postcolonial criticism, whether the selected writings succeed in overcoming the ethnocentric tendencies that characterise the literary reflexes of the ethnographie encounter with the Other abroad, there by producing images that contribute to the renewal of the representations of otherness and foreignness within the contemporary German literature
Demougin, Laure. "Identités et exotisme : représentations de soi et des autres dans la presse coloniale française au dix-neuvième siècle (1830 - 1880)." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017MON30078.
Full textLocal newspapers were published in French colonial areas following the same evolution as the national newspapers: between 1830 and 1880, media-rich times, the press represents a significant publishing-platform for literary texts. Colonial newspapers contain texts adjusted to their respective geographic areas, but keep the same structure regardless, thereby allowing the comparison between the strategies leading to the building of colonial identities. The diversity and the different evolution pathways of these texts may then be considered as the missing link between the travel narratives and the early-20th century defined colonial literature. As such, they can undoubtedly be considered as a significant corpus of colonial times. These texts reflect the identity role this colonial-area adjusted media literature had: by adapting exoticism to the colonial conditions, by varying the criterion of alterity and by many other ways, local press founds, partially, a colonial attitude that can further be found, mutatis mutandis, in the French colonial empire. This is also the reason the 19th-century colonial-media corpus is at the crossroads of both colonial literature and postcolonial writing problematics: as a place for publication, novelty, identity essays, and literary genre essays, the colonial newspaper witnessed the creation, between 1830 and 1880, of writing mechanisms that would eventually develop later on
Pont, Carmen Ana. "Le regard intime : du souvenir privé à la mémoire collective, l'écriture autobiographique portoricaine." Paris 3, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003PA030082.
Full textFrom the 17th to the 20th century, the violent history of colonial relations has marked Puerto Rican autobiographical writing and made it the story of a nomadic I in search of an imaginary nation. The first chapter of this thesis analyses four autobiographical texts written during the Spanish rule of Puerto Rico: Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez (Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora), El jíbaro (Manuel Alonso), the memoirs of Alejandro Tapia y Rivera and the diary of Eugenio M. De Hostos. The second chapter studies the autobiographical memory of the Spanish-American War in Puerto Rico in relation to US imperial propaganda of the time. It concentrates on the autobiographical novel El niño de arcilla (E. R. Chevremont). The third chapter studies the autobiographical novel Litoral (Luis Palés Matos), its many rewritings, and its search for the Afro-Caribbean and mythical roots of Puerto Rican identity. Our last chapter is a comparative study of two memoirs - La luna no era de queso (José L. González) and The Ladies' Gallery (Irene Vilar) - in the context of Puerto Rican nationalism. Poetic art, art of remembrance and of forgetting, art of rewriting and of constructing a cultural identity, Puerto Rican autobiographical writing operates as a bilingual archive where self-knowledge is defined not only by historical inquiry, but also by the necessity to construct a self-portrait or a mask which enables the I to merge with, or to be distinguished from, that Other who is the colonizer
Cantet, Christèle. "Mythes et figures de la belle créole dans la littérature de langue française : France, Mascareignes, Antilles française." La Réunion, 2005. http://elgebar.univ-reunion.fr/login?url=http://thesesenligne.univ.run/05_17_Cantet_vol.pdf.
Full textExotic literature is rich with male and female figures who represent a newly- discovered world. They seem to convey both the dream and the reality of this world. Based on historical facts, authors build characters thanks to whom communication with the found land becomes possible. To investigate the myth of the Belle Creole in French literature helps us to understand what it stands for in this exotic imaginary world, but also what it means in the imaginary world of overseas French colonies. This research examines the timing and the details in which the myth emerged in literature as well as its evolution. Finally, we shall see how the myth persists in postcolonial literature
Frémeaux, France. "L'Afrique des royaumes : contribution à une étude de l'imaginaire colonial." Nice, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996NICE2037.
Full textIt seems easier to spot ideological view points than to study imaginary aspects in french colonial literature. This literature aims at bearing evidence but is ridden by eavy prejudices ; hence its shallowness, repetitions and cliches. Nevertheless, words weave recurrent images : images of a frightening, ungraspable otherness; images of places too distant to reach, such as Africa. These images organize around 3 figures. The figure of the child, who has always been a leader. The figure of the twin - faced, twin - skinned, black and white woman. And, last but not least, the figure of the king, in which contraries try to agree. Black kings or petty white kings provide a transition from myth to reality
Lancerotto, Maria. "Voyageurs français de l'entre-deux-guerres en Afrique Equatoriale Française." Paris 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA030029.
Full textBetween 1919 and 1939, the French Equatorial Africa, partly explored and pacified, becomes a popular holiday resort for french people, opening to tourism and journalism. As a result not only soldiers or explorers were able to write about the colony: journalists, writers, travellers and colonials also contributed with their stories to develop a certain idea of these territories. Reviewing on their account the themes of propaganda or anti-colonialism, these witnesses, tell us about different ways of thinking and judging the colonisation during its period of maximum stability. This study explores a number of written evidences of a sample of french society who travelled to FEA in- between the two wars. The intent of the author is to analyse this literature and to extrapolate some images in order to rise some points of the french colonisation in Africa
Cornu, François. "L'Afrique dans l'oeuvre d'Elspeth Huxley." Besançon, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000BESA1005.
Full textDemougin, Laure. "Identités et exotisme : représentations de soi et des autres dans la presse coloniale française au XIXe siècle (1830-1880)." Doctoral thesis, Université Laval, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/30584.
Full textIdentités et exotisme : représentations de soi et des autres dans la presse coloniale française au XIXe siècle (1830-1880) Sur les territoires colonisés par la France paraissent des journaux locaux qui suivent le développement national de la presse : entre 1830 et 1880, l’époque est médiatique et le journal est un support important des publications littéraires. Dans les colonies, les périodiques contiennent ainsi des textes adaptés à leurs territoires respectifs, mais publiés toujours selon la même structure, ce qui permet une comparaison entre les différentes stratégies conduisant à l’élaboration d’identités coloniales. Ces textes, par leur diversité et leurs évolutions, représentent une sorte de chaînon manquant entre la littérature des récits de voyage et la littérature coloniale qui se définit au tournant du XXe siècle : interrogés et étudiés sous cet angle, ils prennent valeur de corpus signifiant. Ils montrent en effet le rôle identitaire de cette littérature médiatique adaptée aux colonies : en adaptant l’exotisme aux conditions coloniale, en faisant varier le critère d’altérité et par bien d’autres moyens encore, la presse locale fonde en partie une attitude coloniale qui se retrouve, mutatis mutandis, dans l’empire colonial français. C’est également la raison pour laquelle le corpus médiatique colonial du XIXe siècle se trouve être au centre de connexions avec les textes de la littérature coloniale ainsi qu’avec les problématiques de l’écriture postcoloniale : lieu de publication, de nouveauté, de tentatives identitaires et d’essais génériques, le journal colonial a produit entre 1830 et 1880 des mécanismes d’écriture appelés à se développer par la suite.
Identities and exoticism : representations of self and others in the french colonial press in the 19th century (1830-1880) Local newspapers were published in French colonial areas following the same evolution as the national newspapers: between 1830 and 1880, media-rich times, the press represents a significant publishing-platform for literary texts. Colonial newspapers contain texts adjusted to their respective geographic areas, but keep the same structure regardless, thereby allowing the comparison between the strategies leading to the building of colonial identities. The diversity and the different evolution pathways of these texts may then be considered as the missing link between the travel narratives and the early-20th century defined colonial literature. As such, they can undoubtedly be considered as a significant corpus of colonial times. These texts reflect the identity role this colonial-area adjusted media literature had: by adapting exoticism to the colonial conditions, by varying the criterion of alterity and by many other ways, local press founds, partially, a colonial attitude that can further be found, mutatis mutandis, in the French colonial empire. This is also the reason the 19th-century colonial-media corpus is at the crossroads of both colonial literature and postcolonial writing problematics: as a place for publication, novelty, identity essays, and literary genre essays, the colonial newspaper witnessed the creation, between 1830 and 1880, of writing mechanisms that would eventually develop later on.
Boulafrad-Abudura, Fatiha. "Topique colonialiste et contre-topique dans la "trilogie Algérie" de Mohammed Dib." Montpellier 3, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004MON30031.
Full textIn this trilogie "ALGERIE", Mohammed DIB, french_speacking_Algerian writer invests the colonialist topics in order to assert a think as negate it. He asserts in order to use it and work it on again in bi-cultural language : Arabic and French. The colonialist topics are thus emptied then reloaded by a transversal rhethorical effect partaking together of a western irony and an Arabic stylistics called el adhad
Mathé, Jean-Gérard. "L'imaginaire français dans la littérature coloniale de la Tunisie (1881-1956)." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018MON30030.
Full textThe imaginary of the French people who emigrated in Tunisia during the colonial period called the French protectorate was particularly rich as indicated by the myriad of testimonies from many authors who dabbled in writing it down on paper. This thesis seeks to study the Tunisian colonial era from a literary perspective through a systematic approach of the texts and the vision of the authors on the assented exile of French Tunisia. An exile, but also a return to the main land. For many of them who lived the end of the French protectorate, the difficulty was to move to a country which was their own, but not entirely. The choice of the analytical method relies on an imagology study of this matter which will assess the complex notion of imaginary from the myth-analysis point of view. Then the different components will be verified and applied to the context of colonial Tunisia. Regarding the latter topic, literature seems to be the ideal approach to study and highlight the richness of the imaginary of the French Tunisians through the great diversity of texts available : memoirs, testimonies, novels, personal documents, photographes, etc. Finally, the personal experience of the author in the context of the French protectorate in Tunisia will allow to consider the topic via analytical objectivity and a subjective analysis
Santoro, Massimiliano. "Le Temps des maîtres : mythes, idéologies, mentalités, doctrines, pour une histoire de l'imaginaire colonial d'Ancien Régime." Paris, EHESS, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994EHES0016.
Full textMuch more the history of political imaginary than the history of the events this essai search out the relationship between fiction and reality political imaginary and social context even if an historical narration of french colonial and forces traced by lawyers defenders and landsowners is the obliged point of reference for any analysis of power's structures in colonies. The confronting of real white power on blaks and their imaginary power is obli ged. The difficulty to overcome the mass of slaves oblige colons to build up an ideological sophistry that will be dramatically paid during french revolution. Once more ancien regime and revolution will encounter each other in the case of frech caribbean slavery. This work wich cannot solve a question tries to analyse powers relations betwenn whites and blacks throught the image that the metropolis has of his colonies and the colons have of themselves. More than a conclusion,this research is an introduction to an history of colonial political imaginary of ancien regime france which has to be done
Lucas, Rémy. "Eloge du gris ? : Le mûlatre et ses représentations dans la littérature africaine lusographe à partir de la seconde moitié du XXème siècle." Rennes 2, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999REN20008.
Full textThe Portuguese’s miscegenation with the colonized people is the starting point of this work. From the postulate of the Portuguese’s particularity to the interbreeding (lusotropicalism) we wanted to question the different representations of the mulatto in the Portuguese Africa. The evolution of the notion of race, some historic indicators for each ex-colony in Africa permit understand the interbreeding in his geographical and linguistic particularity. The literature of lusophone Africa in the 50's develop the mulatto character. The novel and short stories of our corpus examine this changing and unsatisfied character, split into his black and white roots. A typology of the literary mulatto has been done and permit draw up an inventory of his representations. In order to refine the perception of the mulatto character, we analyse into details three novels : Llheu de Contenta de Teixera de Sousa, A Chaga de Castro Soromenho and Portagem from Orlando Mendes, as well as the narrative strategy (hal-breeding discourse). The literary mulatto turns out to be a character more in search of his whither father than a being divided in his double roots. The unrecognition of the father transforms him into a character cut off from the others and from himself
Rauwerda, Antje M. "Unsettling whiteness, Hulme, Ondaatje, Malouf and Carey." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/NQ63446.pdf.
Full textMoukodoumou, Midepani Eric. "Les indigènes évolués dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Tchicaya U Tam'Si." Paris 12, 2006. https://athena.u-pec.fr/primo-explore/search?query=any,exact,990002485580204611&vid=upec.
Full textHagiwara, Tomoko. "Children in fiction and reality, the British Colonies in North America and Canada in the nineteenth century." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ26919.pdf.
Full textBourguignon, Rougier Claude. "Stratégies romanesques et construction des identités nationales : essai sur l'imaginaire post-colonial dans quatre fictions de la foret." Grenoble, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010GRENL032.
Full textThe subject matter of this thesis is to explore the post-colonial imaginary in four fictional stories of the rainforest. It intends to bring out the colonial foundations of the images the Spanish-speaking authors convey in their works, such as: Canaima, La Voragine, Sangama, as well as the Portuguese -speaking one: Inferno Verde. The theory of the Imaginary by Gilbert Durand and that of the 'decoloniality' ( Dussel, Mignolo, Castro-Gomez, Quijano) are the scientific tools used in this demonstration. The combination of both approaches aims at displaying the colonial nature of the national imaginary which is underlying in the narratives of the forest. After studying the symbolism in the fictions and in the 'Chronicles of the Conquest', this work takes up the analysis of the imaginary in the colonial societies and in the national entities in the making. It will end with the study of the myth of Race which nurtures the imaginary of the fictions and that of society alike. The various discourses, whether they be scientific, literary, anthropological etc. . . Finally appear as many moments of a similar discursive formation: the Great National Story/Narrative
Babu, Frédérick. "La presse et le développement de la littérature écrite dans les anciennes colonies belges d'Afrique de 1945 à 1985 : cas du Congo-Zaïre." Paris 8, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA083199.
Full textThe links between press and literature are very tight. This statement is all the more obvious if one observes from an historical point of view both the Congolese literature, and the Congolese politics and society. From 1504 on, schools to teach how to read and write have been opened by Portuguese Catholic missionaries. Different kinds of publications, often related to religion, were printed during the following centuries. In 1926, the international Conference in Zoute, Belgium, states the necessity to promote the publication of literary works in African languages. The emergence of writing using French language results from three sociocultural facts: literature contests, organized by the Native Arts Friends, various publications in magazines, and the creation, in 1943, of the Star Library publishing house. But the colonial policy emphasizes above all elementary and practical teachings, unlikely to help literary talents stand out. It was not until the foundation of the monthly « Congolese Voice » (1945-1959), by the poet A. -R. Bolamba, that a literary platform became available to the « developed » ones. Another author, revealed in the press, deserves some attention: J. F. Lyeki, Regarding poetry, between 1960 and 1967, through literary circles and newspapers opinion columns, such as « Documents for Action » and « Academic Presence », authors managed to be published and were awarded literary prizes. During the Mobutu era, literature, at the start rather essay-oriented at his own initiative, ends up going back to a more artistic and cultural style in the 1970’s; yet after 1975, publications will come mainly from writers in exile. The first essays dealing with theater started in 1955 with A. Mongita, but this genre will not really flourish until the 1970’s. One name still stands out: M. Mikanza, whose most famous play is Trial in Makala (1977). As far as stories are concerned –novels, short-stories, tales-, one name prevailed during the 1970’s: B. Zamenga. Traditional values are then challenged in the face of modernism. Yet Zairian literature will not assert itself until references to authors - almost all from Lovanium University and mostly living abroad, such as V. Y. Mudimbe, G. Ngal, M. N. Kadima, P. Ngandu, M. Buabua wa Kayembe, S. Djungu, and Cl. Faïk Nzuji- were made in the press. Among literature critics, the work of A. Mbuyamba, in the review « Academic Presence », deserves to be praised
Leclercq, Sophie. "Les surréalistes face à la question coloniale : 1919-1962." Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006VERS024S.
Full textIn th 1920s and 1930s, as the colonial idea finally becomes consensual, the young surrealists are among the rare poets and writers to criticize imperialism, along with the French Communist Party who is elaborating its anticolonial programme. Fascinated by primitive arts, to which they try to identify, some of them elaborate a poetic of the "Savage" that echoes their criticism of colonialism and disrupts stereotypes. This cultural dimension given to their anticolonialism is quite unusual compared to the anticolonial positions of the time. In the 1940s, some of them discovered the Indian, Negro and revolutionary America, and get to meet the authors of the negritude and the indigenism movements who where denouncing the cultural alienation the surrealists condemned in the 1920s. With the independence movement and especially with the Algerian war, anticolonialism becam a shared position among left-wing intellectuals represented by Jean-Paul Sartre. But he "immediate evacuation of the colonies" these intellectuals were calling for had been requested by the surrealists in the 1920s already. Because of their radical and singular position condemning colonialism's principe and because of their avant-gardism lying at a crossroads between the political and the cultural realms, surrealists belong to the anticolonialist intellectuals' history
Merrien, Nathalie. "La comédie humaine dans les romans indiens de John Masters." Rennes 2, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994REN20020.
Full textJohn Masters (1914-1983), who was born in Calcutta, is of the fifth generation of his family to have served in India. Masters retired from the army in 1948 as a lieutenant-colonel. He went to America and turned to writing. He wrote an outstanding series of novels set in British India including Night runners of Bengal (1951), The deceivers (1952), The lotus and the wind (1953), Bhowani junction (1954), Coromandel | (1955), Far, Far the mountain peak (1957), To the coral strand (1962) and The Ravi lancers (1972). The first member of the Savage family to reach India stepped ashore on The coral strand of Coromandel in 1628. From that date for 319 years, the Savages were bound to India by an ever-strengthening chain of event and emotion, of incident and accident, of power and sacrifice. This work shows how john masters wrote about the complex period of colonialism and how he managed to write very exiting stories in a simple language. All his novels deals with the specific events of the British in India and therefore are irreplaceable
Raimbault, Elodie. "Figures de l'espace et de la frontière dans la fiction de Rudyard Kipling." Thesis, Paris 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA030128.
Full textRudyard Kipling was a traveller all his life and a champion of the British Empire at the time when its territorial stability was put at risk; he knew India, the U.S.A., South Africa and Sussex intimately. His direct and physical experience of the globe frames the thematic, narrative and stylistic characteristics of his novels and short story collections. Through the notion of borderline, relationships of differentiation, opposition, contact and exchange are built up thematically, in the narrative and in the style: the traveller is represented as a conqueror, an adventurer or a wanderer and global space is apprehended either politically or poetically. Imperial space is necessarily delineated and Kipling conceives of an Empire federating a mosaic of nations. Likewise, Kipling’s sentences stylistically patch up diverse languages, dialects and registers without endangering their textual unity and his narration hinges on the relation between separate elements and the whole text. The narrative authority creates converging lines between stories and networks appear between books, building up a coherent fictional world which suggests the possibility of an opening in this highly demarcated space. In their internal organisation, the books are at once composite and unified, the main narrative interacting with poems and illustrations in the short story collections and with micro narratives in the novels. Text becomes truly figurative in the annotated maps and when the typographical space is modern and significant. Kipling’s literary space dynamically confronts physical territories and a linguistic representative space, the textual organisation and the narrative world it depicts
Biboumi, Jean de Dieu. "Le roman de dictature : de la colonie au "macisme" à travers Las tinieblas de tu memoria negra et Los poderes de la tempestad de Donato Ndongo Bidyogo, journaliste et écrivain équato-guinéen." Perpignan, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PERP0899.
Full textBlack African literature written in French is present in a large range of works. Nevertheless we note that light has not been shed on Spanish-speaking African literature yet. This situation stems from the fact that Equatorial Guinea is the only African country where Spanish is spoken. As a result both Academic circles and literature critics fail to recognize this nation’s literature. We decide to study the latter not only to bring light on it but also to depict reality. As Equatorial Guinea was the only Spanish black settlement it is nurtured on Spanish tradition on the hand, and, on the other hand, on black African tradiction —this can explain this country’s particular feature. This paper tackles dictatorship as political regime in Equatorial Guinea. We aim at highlighting how Ndongo Bidyogo manages to render reality through fiction. Humanism and hope are part of his works and show how dictatorship influences people
Baneth-Nouailhetas, Emilienne L. "Le roman anglo-indien de Rudyard Kipling à Paul Scott : discours colonial et discours poétique." Paris 3, 1995. http://books.openedition.org/psn/3753.
Full textThis study seeks to underline the "generic" characteristics which evince the liberary unity of angloindian fiction. Through an investigation of novels by r. Kipling (kim), f. A. Steel (on the face of the waters), alice perrin (the woman in the bazaar), e. M. Forster (a passage to india), g. Orwell (burmese days), and paul scott (the raj quartet), this analysis underlines the dominance of ideological discourse as an essential element of colonial fiction, and more specifically, of the angloindian novel. The colonial discourse is absorbed by the narrative process and becomes the insturment of a poetic reflection on the modes of textual production. It thus breeds a poetic discourse which demonstrates, in its chronological evolution, the specificity and dynamism of anglo-indian fiction : the ideological discourse initiales a certain novelistic approach, and imposes itself upon narratives which inevitably refer to it. Indeed, whether it confirms or refutes colonial doctrines, the narrative cannot but acknowledge the existence of this discourse, as the colonial situation is the very context of its creation the anglo-indian narrative is therefore always predetermined by a hypotextual discourse, but this discourse becomes a vehicle of literary creation, as the anglo-indian novel constantly seeks to break free from its hold through innovative poetic techniques
Boucher, Rémi. "A comparative post-colonial reading of Kristjana Gunnars' The prowler and Robert Kroetsch's What the crow said." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ61717.pdf.
Full textFernandes, Martine. "Les Écrivaines francophones en liberté : une analyse cognitive de l'hybridité dans le roman post-colonial féminin." Paris 4, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA040070.
Full textSkocki, Tomasz. "Memoria delle colonie e postcolonialismo nella letteratura italiana contemporanea." Thesis, Paris 10, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA100056/document.
Full textChemmachery, Michaux Jaine. "Modernité et colonisation : les nouvelles sur l’empire de Rudyard Kipling et de Somerset Maugham." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013REN20026/document.
Full textKipling’s and Maugham’s short stories respectively stage Anglo-Indian society during the Raj and English and Dutch colonial societies in interwar South-East Asia. In spite of contextual differences and the two specific moments when the authors wrote their short stories, the latter invariably deal with a problematic colonisation seen as a crisis while the genre of the short story formally conveys the notion of crisis. By using the relation between modernity and colonisation as it was conceptualised by the Postcolonial studies as a paradigm, this dissertation shows how short stories can operate a specific take on this relation and be considered as a site of disturbance. In this reflection on the propensity of short stories to destabilise political and philosophical modernity and the various ideologies it is associated with – such as the promotion of reason, of knowledge, of progress – Kipling’s and Maugham’s colonial short fictions seem to operate in different ways. Kipling’s short stories poetically question the “political” and modernity as they appear in the colonial paradigm through awriting that operates from a marginal position moving away from the domestic novel. By focusing on colonial society, itself being located on the margins of English metropolitan society, the writers’ works practise a decentering form of writing. Maugham’s short stories partake more of a general feeling about the decline of European civilisation in the interwar period but also reflect on the location of the writer who faces various centres which produce knowledge and cultural authority. The destabilising effect of the short story is certainly linked to its position as a “lonely voice” but above all to its marginal position
Labourey, Marion. "Les écritures de l’histoire dans le récit magico-réaliste des Amériques." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL138.
Full textThe magical realistic narrative is deeply linked with the writing of history. Between the 1940’s and the 1980’s, throughout the entire America, has been developed and has evolved the magic realism which let the authors of such narratives to transcribe anthropological datas, coming from dominated populations of America (Natives, slaves or former slaves) in novels in which realism and magic can mix without tension. Then, by describing the past periods of the American continent, the authors of magic realism narratives have built a kind of fiction able to imitate, but not replace, the historical investigation : they can, with the help of the specific resources of fiction, give a voice to those who where kept in the dark for so long. We will study how the authors of magic realism narratives write history, et transcribe the representations of people who were not considered before. Such a literary phenomenon is fundamental in the building of an American literary filed. Our trilingual corpus gathers these nine authors : Miguel Ángel Asturias, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Toni Morrison, Wilson Harris, Toni Cade Bambara, Jean-Louis Baghio’o, Jacques Stephen Alexis et Maryse Condé
Grogan-Lynch, Molly. "Poétiques de résistance, littératures d'opposition : une mise en perspective de l'écriture oralisée dans les œuvres de Bernard Dadié et de Patrick Chamoiseau." Paris 4, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040051.
Full textNeves, João Manuel. "Soi-même comme un sujet impérial. Littérature coloniale des années 1920 : le cas du Mozambique." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://bibnum.univ-paris3.fr/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=257892.
Full textThis research proposes a very thorough examination of Portuguese colonial literature related to Mozambique in the 1920s. In the first part, contextual data is made available and concepts essential for carrying out the study of colonial texts in their historical time are defined. Biographical data about colonial authors and data about their works is presented. The analysis is then centred on the main cores, geographical and morphological, of the constitution and the division of the colonial subjects. The morphological perception of the other, based on a geographical reference, is directly related to the representations of Portuguese race‑thinking, developed to a large extent through Aryan Mythology and Social Darwinism. The texts studied show how the notions of the “struggle of the races” and of survival of the fittest among human communities contributed towards the elaboration of a “strategy of cruelty” and the unleashing of death flows of great intensity. The double process of deterritorialisation of populations through conquest and their reterritorialisation through the social transformation of space by colonial capitalism took place in a political context of totalitarianism. The installation of a racial dictatorship and the generalisation of terror forced the colonised into a position of economic and sexual servitude. The colonial desire also allowed the emergence of hybrid social or cultural forms and a questioning of discursive authority; those found an immediate opposition in the development of a politics of colonial domesticity
Vasconcelos, Machado Everton. "Christianisme, castes et colonialisme dans le roman "Les Brahmanes" (1886) du goannais Francisco Luís Gomes (1829-1869)." Thesis, Paris 4, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA040245/document.
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Este trabalho propõe-se a estudar a maneira como o escritor goês de língua portuguesa Francisco Luís Gomes (1829-1869) aborda em seu romance de tese Os Brahamanes (1866) o cristianismo, o sistema de castas hindu e o colonialismo. Liberal e católico convicto, Gomes foi bastante marcado pelos ideais da Revolução Francesa e teria podido ser inscrito na corrente do romantismo “reformador”, da qual faziam parte Lamartine, Lamennais e Hugo. Inspirado em um fato histórico (a Revolta dos Cipaios de 1857, primeiro movimento inssurrecional indiano de envergadura contra a dominação inglesa), Os Brahamanes poderia ser considerado como sendo não apenas a primeira obra de ficção a atacar as castas da Índia mas também o primeiro romance da literatura moderna a denunciar os abusos do colonialismo. O discurso de Gomes comporta entretanto alguns problemas, pois o autor acaba por legitimar em seu livro o fato colonial. A ação de Os Brahamanes não se passa na Índia portuguesa, de onde era o escritor, mas na Índia britânica, o verdadeiro alvo do romance. Ora, este contribui tanto para o mito segundo o qual Portugal teria agido, enquanto conquistador de povos, de uma maneira “doce” e igualitária, quanto para o “estilo ocidental de dominação, de reestruturação e de autoridade sobre o Oriente” chamado “orientalismo” (Edward Saïd)
Leno, Sâa. "L'épisode africain dans 'Voyage au bout de la nuit' de Céline." Besançon, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003BESA1008.
Full textThis study relates to the african episode of 'Voyage at the end of the night' of Céline. After a brief analysis of the african universe whe it lays a particular stress on nature, paludism and the space framework, il leads to the colonial society. It acts on this level, of an approach of the social strtification on Bambola-Bragamance. Shows that this colony was governed by a pyramidal structure energy of the Governon to the natives While passing through the soldiers, the civils servant and the tradesmen. Then, it puts forward the topic relating to colonialism, in particular the trade, approached in its forms official and cladestine, justicen the criticism of Catholic Church and the disintegration of the african traditions, before elucading the fiction and the reality in this episode. This study makes a bringing together between the experiments of Celine and the african adventure of the narrator and it leads to the report according to which it is about a transposition of the history lived by the author himself. The transposition is at the level of the references relatinf to the framwork of the account, with the route of the narrator, the african stay and onomastics used. Lastly, it makes a synthetic approach relating to the representation of Bambola-Bragamance, the human condition through this episode and the cincidence of the publication of 'Voyage at the end of the night' with the first steps of the movement of Negritude
Treiber, Nicolas. "Les structures de la déception : récits de migration et expériences colonisées dans la littérature africaine d'expression française (1953-1961)." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017AIXM0074.
Full textThe travels of African students in a colonial situation are a recurring subject in Frenchspeaking African literature of the 1950s. At the time of de-colonial, political and ideological struggles, some writers such as Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Camara Laye or Aké Loba have put the experience of cultural colonization at the heart of their literary work. Their writings, aboutthe study trips of the main characters to France, are based on a spatial and existential isotopy: a dead-end migration, based on many betrayed promises, dreams with broken perspectives, experiences of deathly dereliction. The study of the literary device of the progressive disenchantment of these characters – African, colonized students – allows to shed light on thesubjectivation process that shapes their barred horizons. Indeed, the ideological deceit of the colonial endeavor hides a movement of existential capture that grabs the character and makes them subjects of domination. Since the turning point of political independencies, the literary outlook on those failed adventures keeps interrogating our present times. These beings, stretched between spaces and universes of opposed values, question the negotiation of postcolonial identities. As if, by entering the mold of the colonized character, by going to meet its mechanisms and models, we had an appointment with the modern-day shapes of their globalized development
Marie, Joséphine. "Les Amériques caribéennes et hispano-américaines dans les narrations de Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda : de la vision romantique aux regards postcoloniaux." Thesis, Paris 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA030121.
Full textThis study focuses on the three pillars of narrative art in the romantic era in the works of Cuban writer Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda (1814-1873) dealing with Hispanic-American and Caribbean colonies (Memorias, Sab, Guatimozín, El Cacique de Turmequé, El aura blanca). The images and narrative devices traditionally mobilized in Hispanic-American Romanticism – a literature strongly inspired by European artistic ideals, and yet driven by a desire for political and cultural independence – make it a literature pervaded by paradoxes. Although they tend to share this common feature, the authors’ narratives stand out and surprise. In the light of the evolution of the novelistic forms that followed Romanticism, including modernist writings, and postmodern and postcolonial poetics, these texts appear as already “modern”. The (de)construction of the characters – particularly the “Metis” – and places, together with the polyphonic effect of a myriad of different discourses, challenge many traditional representations concerning the re-writing of the History of the Americas. What emerges is a desire to find a new way to express the various forms of the “real” and to capture the cultural complexity of this geographical area. Without clearly defining any particular literary method or ars poetica, the author explores space, temporality and the interplay of voices, thus laying the bases for an ontological, memory-oriented mode of writing that questions identities. This mode of writing goes through a process of Creolization, as it gathers and recomposes disparate elements, multiplies its literary or oral sources, and makes new linguistic territories, or characters who elude types, materialize
Sullivan, Maryse. "Entre fiction et histoire : la construction de la figure de la sorcière dans la littérature contemporaine." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/39386.
Full textHosoi, Ayame. "Le « Corps asiatique » De Yang Seog-il, Fils du Japon post-colonial : questions sur la subjectivité et le parricide dans la littérature zainichi contemporaine et intertexte avec la littérature maghrébine d’expression française." Thesis, Lyon 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011LYO30096/document.
Full textIn the context of post-Colonial Japan this dissertation attaches itself to explore the concept of a contemporary writer, a so-Called Zainichi: Yang Seog-Il’s “Asiatic body”. Having defined the field of interpretations covered by this term, our central question will be: in Yang Seog-Il’s literature how is the “Asiatic body” engaged in a process of overcoming this colonial and post-Colonial era? While reading Yang’s works, we shall use as an intertext and a mirror, some literary cases of contemporary francophone North African descendant writers (especially Azouz Begag’s texts). The first part shall map the socio-Historical context of these two diasporic populations (the Decolonized Zainichi in Japan and the Descendant from North African immigrants in France), that appeared in the last century, and in the same time, the birth of their so-Called post-Colonial literature. In the second part, we intend to make an in-Depth interpretation of our corpus, in taking up the manifestation of subjectivity of the (ex) colonized as the “Asiatic body”, using the Mikhaïl Bakhtine’s epistemology. The third part at last is devoted to a new reading of the literary works we are interested in: by establishing a link between the parricide as a literary theme and the “Asiatic body”, the wish of the son of post-Colonial Japan, Yang Seog-Il, to eliminate the father appears to renegotiate symbolical aspects that must be analysed. Hence, the feminization of the “Asiatic body” undertaken by Yang has to be read under the light of a feminist post-Colonial criticism that might uncover new themes of domination
Adjadji, Anani Guy. "L’enfant et la violence dans le roman africain de l’ère postcoloniale." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL047.
Full textViolence, war, poverty and precariousness are typical terms, which are repeatedly present in different discourses about the African continent, be it in the media or in the social sphere. In literature, these expressions also dominate the publications of both the colonial and the post-colonial era. Therefore, this work has the main objective of analysing the portrayal of postcolonial violence in selected works published by African French-speaking authors, but without taking into account the figure of the dictator. It emphasizes the issue of children, most especially child soldiers. Moreover it analyses the narrative methods used by the authors, by means of which a child or teenager becomes the main figure in the context of extreme violence. Two novel publications of Ahmadou Kourouma and one of Emmanuel Dongala form the basis of this dissertation. These are works of two authors who, starting in the year 2000, created new structures in the history of French African literature by their intensive writing about the military use of children. It turned out that in their novels, the voice of a child offers a particular view from the lower class of society on postcolonial violence. In addition, the dissertation establishes a causal relationship between postcolonial and colonial violence
Malmon, Isabelle. "Le tupapau et le génie à capuche : étude d'une figure entêtante dans l'oeuvre de Paul Gauguin." Thesis, La Réunion, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LARE0019.
Full textIn 1892, Paul Gauguin’s painting Manao tupapau shows, behind a naked Tahitian woman, a little hooded character. The artist explains that this is a tupapau, that is to say a ghost in the Polynesian traditions. In reality the pattern already appeared in France in 1888, without any reference to Oceania, and it will haunt the work of Gauguin until he died in 1903. This figure, invasive in a so-called exotic and erotic work, deserves special attention, especially as most critics often trivialised or deleted it. Does this character prove that the artist is yielding to fin-de-siècle fantasy ? Is it a way to feed exotism, like the Orientalists painters, by the coexistence between this shadowy ghost and the « belle des îles » ? Knowing that Gauguin hated the mercantilist and racialist Europe, does he have a real interest in the Polynesian occult world and beliefs as they were fought by Christian missions ? Our dissertation showed that Gauguin’s excursion in the Pacific islands went a downward spiral. When the Polynesian customs and religion are standardized by colonialism and Christianism, when guilt of damnation and mortality caused by the syphilis are spreading, the hooded genius represents death prevailing over pleasure, the demonization of sexual freedom. This figure expresses also a descent into the dark room that is Gauguin’s psyche, his being torn between will of enjoyment in the new Cythère and fear of a demonized and untamed female sexuality, between his desire to come back to the mother image and his avoidance of a stressful domination figure. At last the little genius helps to give the work an original esthetics, challenging artistic and ideological stereotypes
قطان, كريم. "Aspects de l’imaginaire littéraire du désert à l’ère post-coloniale." Thesis, Paris 10, 2020. http://faraway.parisnanterre.fr/login?url=http://bdr.parisnanterre.fr/theses/intranet/2020/2020PA100061/2020PA100061.pdf.
Full textThis dissertation aims to examine some aspects of the literary imagination of the desert in various texts in English, Arabic, and French, most of them novels set in the deserts of the Mediterranean area. The desert is a multifaceted and polymorphous object, and at the intersection of many fantasies. It is a unique landscape, one that materializes following a long, institutional and cultural sedimentation of images. Our imagination of this landscape is dependent on medieval images of the desert, as well as travel writing and religious texts. Moreover, as a colonial fantasy, it is often perceived as a space where paradoxes thrive, where the authentic and the artificial, the past and the future, reality and fiction, merge beyond recognition. As such, it is firmly set in the realm of post-colonial discourses. I will first attempt to understand how the desert and its recurring motifs are born, as literary objects, in the travel writings of the XIXth century. Subsequently, I will focus on how the desert of the XXth century, becomes a political space where postcolonial writers reclaim and rewrite their voices and histories. Consequently, the desert in literature, rather than a state, a landscape or a geological fact, appears to be a process of becoming. Thus, the aim of the research was not so much to formulate a definition of what the desert in literature is, but rather of what it can do. In fact, it enables the writers to create borderland spaces, where origins, history, and the future are recreated and, ultimately, where they can forge a desert speech, a hybrid, innovative language that attempts to voice that which has remained voiceless in the fringes of history
Sebraoui, Ahmed. "Le Maroc dans l'oeuvre de Jérôme et Jean Tharaud : 1919-1939, contribution à l'histoire littéraire de l'exotisme colonial." Bordeaux 3, 1987. http://www.theses.fr/1987BOR30025.
Full textTravel has an important role in the exoticisim. Lystey called tharaud's brothers in morocco in order to make known this country in france. They tried to penetrate moroccan's mentality. In the last party, we are tried to study the image of litterature
Nguyen, Thi Tuyet Trinh. "L'imaginaire colonial français de l'Indochine 1890-1935." Thesis, Tours, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014TOUR2001/document.
Full textThe diaries of French soldiers participated in Vietnam’s pacification (1885-1900) did not follow the colonial stereotype perception. . Textbooks of the Third Republic in contrast, exalt the Indochinese conquest and believe in future necessary developments. This is also found in young adult literature which puts more emphasis on Indochinese natural environment for all dreams and adventures. However, the French public opinion was properly primarily marked by numerous colonial expositions where presence of Indochinese countries was more and more important, at peak with the Great international colonial exposition in Paris 1931. Particularly, a new heritage perception on diversity and specificity of Indochinese Art emerges (Annamite, Cham, Khmer and Lao) where Khmer art was dominant for a long time. This perception, with helps of colony’s learning societies (Ecole Française d’Extrême Orient, Société des Amis du Vieux Hué) is one of the major contribution of colonial tourism. However, these representations of pacified Indochina, emberked on the path of civilization and developments, are undetermined quickly by the flow of information about Vietnamese uprising in 1930 and their repressions. The voices of increasing number of Vietnamese in france (students, workers, intellectuals and independant activits) and well-known reporters (Andrée Viollis) then converge and tremble together one coloniale image. Any work of Francophone literature (for essentially romances and considered authors 'Indochinese") for a long time, since Jules Boissière to Pouvourville and until Farrère, has been constrasted with colonial societies (Farrère, Les Civilisés, 1905), finding of an irrefutable attachement between Vietnameseand their independence (Jules Boissière)
Laure, Charlotte. "Tragédies de la décolonisation. Un théâtre écrit en français depuis l'Afrique, la Caraïbe et Madagascar (1942-1992)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 3, 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023PA030060.
Full textIt may seem paradoxical to choose the dramatic genre of tragedy to represent and support the struggles around the decolonization process of the French empire, as it is a symbol of western culture. However, we demonstrate in this thesis the relevance of this combination of a canonical genre with a protest topic. From the study of a diverse corpus of about thirty plays written in French by African, Caribbean, and Malagasy authors in the second half of the 20th century (1942-1992), we identify a theatrical phenomenon that we call "decolonization tragedies". On the one hand, the genre of tragedy allows to create myths, to celebrate precolonial societies and to highlight anti-colonial struggles. On the other hand, this genre allows to display defeats, which enables the indictment of Europe's self-proclaimed civilizing mission, and reveals the violence of the colonial and slavery system from the standpoint of those who suffer it. Moreover, the specific nature of tragedy encourages to examine its impact on gender. Finally, discussing some distortions in the reception of the plays allows us to show that the dramatic genre is being renewed through the affirmation of a destiny that is no longer transcendental, but historical, and from which one can emancipate oneself
Bedel, Marie. "La « matière troyenne » dans la littérature médiévale : Guido delle Colonne Historia destructionis Troiae : introduction, édition-traduction partielles et commentaire." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LYO20042.
Full textThis work proposes to explore one of the many medieval texts on the myth of the Trojan War. Transmitted to medieval Europe not through Homer but by the Latin classics and some authors of late Antiquity, this myth was a huge success in Europe during the middle Ages, despite the ignorance of the Greek and the Iliad. We chose to partially edit and comment on one of the most important monuments of the medieval Trojan material, almost unpublished text today because totally abandoned since the Renaissance and the return to the ancient texts. In an introduction, we exposed the principles of our editing work, that is to say, listed the various manuscripts used by the original publisher (Nathaniel Griffin) and especially presented our basic manuscript, Cod. Bodmer 78, absent from the list of manuscripts collated by Griffin. Then we have a chapter on the language of the text, a medieval Latin highly readable although full of "modernism", particularly in terms of vocabulary. Then, after introducing the text, the language and our editing method, we exposed the little things we had on our author, his life, his work and the intellectual context in which he evolved in thirteenth century Sicily, and the European craze for the Trojan material explains his choice to take this great myth in his Historia. Then, we had to mention the many sources used by Guido delle Colonne, its indirect or direct or unacknowledged sources. Lastly, we provided a summary of each book published and translated. Then follows a detailed bibliography on manuscripts and old editions of this text, textbooks, historical and cultural context in Europe and Sicily in the Middle Ages, the Greek texts, Latin and vernacular related to the Trojan War and that influenced our author near or far, the critical works on the treatment of this Trojan material in antiquity and the Middle Ages, and finally some bibliographic elements on Guido and his work. Then comes our edition-translation. The translation is accompanied by a double pageantry: one for the sources and reminiscences, and a critical apparatus that considers and compares the lessons contained in our manuscript with basic variants cited by the previous editor in some manuscripts that he used. At the bottom of the translation include scholarly notes for names or facts mentioned in the text and deserve an explanation. After this introduction and part philological edition, the second major part of this thesis consists of a comment and annexes. In our review, we wanted to examine our text in its narratological, thematically, linguistic, generic and ideological aspects. That is why we have devoted the first chapter to the narratological study of the text, its content, its layout, its narrative techniques, use of sources and its main themes. In a second part, we discussed the type and tone of the Historia, which intends to be a historical text while attending a fictional material since mythological, at a time when genres are not yet defined and less compartmentalized; we have also commented extensively and illustrated the choice of writing in prose and Latin at a time when fashion is to poetry and vernacular. In the end, our third chapter focuses on the scientific, political and ideological content of this text peppered with parentheses and moral scholars. Finally, we proposed a diplomatic edition of the unedited or translated part of the manuscript, as well as appendices on manuscripts and vocabulary, and of course the name index and a glossary of rare or surprising words
Corvaisier, Gaëlle. "Histoire coloniale, fiction féminine : Frictions en francophonies. Étude comparative d'oeuvres de Maryse Condé et d'Assia Djebar." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00978558.
Full textSoulhat, Delphine. "Poétique de la rencontre dans les nouvelles de Katherine Mansfield." Thesis, Paris 10, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA100129/document.
Full textModernity has been defined as a destabilizing time for both the institution and the subject. Katherine Mansfield’s short stories fit in this definition as they provide many examples of inter-subjective failure. It is thus fundamental to go back to the origins of the relationship in order to uncover the various types and modes of encounter and to interrogate their constructive potential. The encounter as Mansfield conceives of it addresses the question of otherness within three different spaces. The encounter displays ontological and existential stakes in the intimate space; it invites the reader to displace the critical perspective on colonial and global movements from the political to the cultural in the geographic space; and it unveils its countless variants in an artistic space, thus generating an original poetics shaped by the convergence of arts, genres, and styles. The poetics of the encounter manifests itself according to a definition that goes beyond the Aristotelian frame. What is at stake is artistic creation itself
Chavoz, Ninon. "La tentation encyclopédique dans l'espace francophone africain : des documentations coloniales aux glossaires contemporains." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA090.
Full textAs it induces a long-term study embracing both imperial literature and contemporary glossaries, the evocation of an encyclopaedic temptation aims to examine a heuristic continuum between colonial and postcolonial eras. It highlights the evolution of a specific scholarly discourse, characterized by an overarching position of classification as well as a predilection for the “cultural inventory” of the unknown. If encyclopaedism thus allows to nourish the epistemological analysis of "africanism" and to question the modalities of its “undisciplined” adaptations, we shall essentially consider it as a tool for the analysis of plastic and literary forms – especially as a point of entry to what Bernard Mouralis called “counter-literatures”. The attention paid to encyclopaedic temptations experienced by Paul Hazoumé, Georges Ngal and Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, but also by Théodore Monod, Alain Mabanckou or Hassan Musa, allows to re-read these works as the expression of a porosity between knowledge and creation. Combining the exercise of the scholarly quotation with a speculative impetus towards the future, the encyclopaedia sets the hypothesis of a flattening perspective allowing the free juxtaposition of heterogeneous elements. In a context of agonistic rivalry surrounding postcolonial knowledge, it offers a leveled and pacified encounter space, the painful setback of which is embodied by marginal and contested encyclopaedic figures. Staging a labile knowledge and a hypertrophied individual, encyclopaedism is indeed a phenomenon of our time and therefore offers a common ground for contemporary French and Francophone literatures
Bouaziz, Mansour. "Le bagne colonial dans le roman français, 1851-1938 : genèse et structure." Thesis, Université Côte d'Azur (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019AZUR2005.
Full textThe character of convict is omnipresent in French literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The representation of the world of hard labor in metropolitan and colonial prisons is at the crossroads of the broader representation of crime in the nineteenth century, according to a concomitant historical development with colonial expansion. The miscellaneous news, these little newsletters launched continually on the city, change the way of perceiving crime. Obeying a specific structure, this type of news will reshape the literary representation of crime. This is where the character of the convict comes in. Indeed, enjoying a special status (dead/alive/revenant), it offers novelists "conditions of possibility" unseen until then in the world of letters. Jean Valjean, Monte-Cristo and Chéri-Bibi, to name only the well known, have become models in what we can call the "novel of the convicts", literary (sub)-genre which develops in France from 1830 onwards. Thus, Valjean will give the archetype of the "innocent convict", the miraculous convert and the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. Monte-Cristo will be the Avenger par excellence, whose course will be the model of the genre - revenge being an inevitable topos of popular literature of the nineteenth century and until today. As for Chéri-Bibi, at the beginning of the twentieth century, embodies a turning point in the history of gender; it would be to the novel of the convict what Don Quixote was for the chivalric romance: a sum and a surpassing. The study we propose, oriented on the "genesis and structure" of the prison novel, is a reverse journey in history of this literary genre that does not say its name
Loriaux, Stéphanie. "Luid tussen twee stilten: vergeten vrouwenstemmen uit tempo doeloe. De Indisch-Nederlandse literatuur uit het negentiende-eeuwse damescompartiment." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/211227.
Full textFleming, Fiona. "La figure de l’étranger dans l’œuvre de D. H. Lawrence : la puissance créatrice et transformatrice de l’étrange." Thesis, Paris 10, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA100083/document.
Full textDrawing on Nordau and Spengler’s theories of “degeneration” in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lawrence posits the idea of a physical and moral decline of both individuals and collective social forms in Europe. He therefore sets out, through his personal travels and travel narratives, on a quest for the “regenerative” possibilities which he believes non-European places and cultures may have to offer.His travel writings examine the encounter between his European characters and the cultural otherness they experience abroad in the form of foreign individuals and societies, places and the sacred powers that inhabit those places. Lawrence postulates that the “regeneration” or revitalisation of the European subject is determined by the traveller’s ability to let himself or herself be altered by the power of otherness. Each of his works thus analyses the process of alteration undergone by the European subject, which is affected by various factors such as the latter’s relationship to the home country and the end sought through travel, his social status, education and gender.Lawrence’s works are primarily concerned with the revitalisation of the female subject and most of his travelling characters are in fact unaccompanied female travellers – an uncommon choice at the time. Yet Lawrence does not contemplate the possibility of the female subject’s self-emancipation since her revitalisation can only be brought about by the erotic encounter with a male other endowed with the power of otherness.Lawrence nonetheless experiments with several types of regeneration – individual and collective, political and spiritual – which may contribute to the renewal of western civilisation