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Henry, Beulah. "L'expression de l'indianité chez les écrivains de la diaspora indienne de la Caraïbe." Bordeaux 3, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998BOR30049.
Full textThis comparative study of french and english exile novels, written by the descendants of the indian indentures of the west indies, in search of their identity and their indianity, brings out some constants, such as the ravages of colonialism, its physical and psychological consequences, and the uneasiness felt in a plural and the island society of the west indies. The indian caught up between the blacks and whites, the ex-masters and slaves, only wants to get away, or mimic the whites representing superiority and materialism, when forced to stay. As for the writers in french, they consider the markers of indianity as a stronghold for indianity and describe the indian from the ethnological point of view. V. S. Naipaul, writing in english, destroys all these markers and refuses to let the indian be caught up in the security of indianity or in the dharma, which only will make him a passive fatalist, a mimic man begging to be colonised. Naipaul also tries to tie up hindou and literary principles. From the emptiness prevalent in his first novel, he reincarnates himself through his caracters and breaks away from all the protective layers of national, social, cultural, religious and racial identities, until he finds his inner-self and becomes more individual. Whereas the french writers hope for a harmonious synthesis of different cultures in a modern and plastic world
Girier, Jean-Philippe. "De la déconstruction du mythe de la femme soumise à la construction de la femme agent dans la littérature et le cinéma indiens contemporains." Thesis, Antilles, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019ANTI0382.
Full textContemporary Indian literature and cinema are part of a dynamic that goes hand in hand with the profound socio-economic changes that have affected India since the end of the nineteen eighties. Indeed, many novels and films are characterized by a freedom of expression that touches on many subjects that were once considered taboo. The wind of renewal sweeping India is also marked by the increase in the number of writers and directors who place women at the heart of their stories and intrigues. Thus, the objective of this study is to show, on the one hand, how the image of the passive and submissive Indian woman was constructed during the long process of colonization, on the other hand, how contemporary literature and cinema attempt to rehabilitate the place of women in history in order to build a new and dynamic representation which symbolizes the Indian woman of the 2000s. The respective novels of Anita Nair and Githa Hariharan, Ladies' Compartment and The Thousand Faces of the Night, as well as the films Fire, Water by Deepa Mehta as well as The Marriage of the monsoons by Mira Nair are part of a resistance movement. where the agency of the heroines testifies to the will and the difficulty of freeing oneself from three centuries of marginalization.In the first part, we propose to walk through the history, that which attributed to the man capacities superior to those of the woman, conferring upon him by extension an authority, a power of domination. This historical and sociological approach allows us to understand how the links which unite the human and the divine in India were built. Our gaze will also focus on the consequent upheavals engendered by British colonization. This period of Indian history will be analyzed in order to highlight the modus operandi by which the British Empire succeeded in imposing a lifestyle faithful to its vision of the world while excluding women from decision-making spheres in order to "consign" them in the domestic space.The second part of the thesis analyzes the family space, which has become the place par excellence for the reproduction of androcentric postulates. This private space will be closely observed and we will engage in an approach that combines psychoanalysis and sociology in order to demonstrate the importance of the construction of the feminine in the process of identity deconstruction. We will pay particular attention to the role played by the mother in the reproductive process. The ambivalent position it occupies often leads to a fragmentation between the physical being, the social being and the psychic being. The psyche then becomes a space inhabited by doubt and fear while being the ultimate refuge of comfort. This shift between body and mind will take us to the field of psychosomatics, where dreams are the privileged place for psychic reconstruction. We will also observe the strategies used by novelists and filmmakers to begin the process of rebuilding the identity of their heroines.The third part focuses on cinema and literature through their complementarity. First, we will retrace the history of cinema from the sidelines and highlight its committed character that sets it apart from some popular cinemas such as Bollywood. Subsequently, we make a connection between the novel and its adaptation to the cinema in order to highlight the complementarity of the works as well as the notion of solidarity which represents an essential point in this collaborative work. Indeed, diaspora filmmakers Deepa Mehta and Mira Nair have developed an activist and united approach that can be found both in the writing of the script and in the choice of actors and actresses. This activism will be illustrated by examples that highlight the many instances of agency staged in order to build a dynamic image of women in India
BALVANNANAOHAN, AIDA. "Tradition hindouiste, colonialisme et evolution de la conscience feminine chez quatre romanceires indo-anglaises (kamala markandaya, anita desai, shashi deshpande et githa hariharan)." Paris 12, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA120016.
Full textKwang-Heam, Jeang. "La mythologie indienne dans la littérature française du 19e siècle (Gérard de Nerval, Alphonse de Lamartine, Gustave Flaubert, Leconte de Lisle, Théophile Gautier, Victor Hugo)." Aix-Marseille 1, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992AIX10043.
Full textThe nineteenth century was a new literary one in which the authors recreated the human race under a reflection of indian mythology. I was also a new discovery of humanity in french literature. Making clear the fundamental origin of indian mythological theme was the purpose of the work in french literature at that time. People ascertained the vast scope of understanding the poets by means of investigating the origin of the words and the themes unknown in the century. According to the six of authors chosen, the definition of indian myths is understanding the value of the creation of the human race. For lifting up the mysterions veils from indian faces, we have to not only approache the mythological source in relation to etymological and thematic origin in their every originality with each authors view. Indian draw the attention of the oriental who want to introduce the oriental culture, history, language, religion and so on into europe ; and a number of discoveries by them. India furnishes our authors with the new conception of nature, the universe and people who are in indian mythology
Guilhamon, Lise. "Poétiques de la langue autre dans le roman indien d'expression anglaise." Rennes 2, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007REN20040.
Full textIndian English novelists frequently call attention, within their fiction, to the relation of otherness that links them to the language of their creative work. These authors write in a language inherited from the colonial process, and with a heterogeneous audience in view, whose references are further complicated by the contemporary phenomena of diaspora, migration and globalisation. This is why these novelists place at the heart of their literary creation the deeply intertwined questions of the Other's tongue, and of the other tongue. The question of the « other tongue » in the Indian English novel has given rise to several critical studies, but it has practically never been examined from the point of view of its poetic specificity: this is precisely what this work sets out to do. Indian English fiction examines the modalities of literary creation: in particular, it investigates the way in which literature invents language, and it explores the idea of literature as alterity at work within language
Magdelaine-Andrianjafitrimo, Valérie. "Les romans de la diaspora indienne à Trinidad et dans les Antilles françaises : mythe ou réalité d'une ethnicité littéraire ?" Aix-Marseille 1, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999AIX10060.
Full textMirza, Maryam. "L'Intimité inter-classes 5 : une étude de la littérature féminine anglophone contemporaine de l'Inde et du Pakistan." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012AIXM3048.
Full textThis dissertation is a detailed analysis of ten contemporary Anglophone novels by women writers from India and Pakistan. It explores and evaluates the politics as well as the poetics of the literary depiction of cross-class love and friendship in Anglophone literature of the Indian sub-continent, which is often considered ‘elitist'. The figure of the subaltern lies at the heart of our study and by focusing on the portrayal of the negotiation of class, caste and gender identities in the Indian sub-continent, this dissertation moves away from postcolonial studies' customary focus on the notion of hybridity, often conceived solely in East/West or North/South terms. The texts examined reveal not only the tenuousness of cross-class relationships but also underscore their subversive possibilities. The ethical ramifications of questions of form are also explored as are the ways in which the poetics of a text can both confirm and contradict its politics
Jagtiani-Naumann, Lalita. "Briser le moule de Sita : statut et libération de la femme indienne dans une sélection de romans d'Anita Desai, Shashi Deshpande et Githa Hariharan." Rennes 2, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002REN20047.
Full text@What is the image of Indian women that emerges in these writings? What are the literary techniques exploited by the writers to discuss the issues related to the status of women? By fusing an Indocentric methodology with Western approaches to narratology the thesis shows that the novels, selected on the basis of gender rather than their feminist concerns, reveal, through the use of allegory and myth, how centuries of patriarchal dominance in Indian women's lives are being challenged by women in the post-colonial era. The writers create new myths to replace male-oriented ones by narrating them from a woman's viewpoint. The protagonists of the novels reverse the position of power as they break out of the myth of the Sita-mould. A significant difference between the Indian and Western feminsit emerges : while the novels' Western-educated, middle-class protagonists are willing to negociate their liberation from the hold of tradition, they are unwilling to break the Indian social continuum in their quest for indivuation. The three sections of the thesis, order, disorder and reorder, reflect the upward spiral that gathers momentum in the progress that the female characters make in moving beyond the threshold of marginalizing limitations. The subsequent instability as they explore hitherto out-of-bound spaces becomes the impetus that deconstructs the stability within patriarchal norms
Vincent-Prabakar, Suhasini. "Écriture métafictionnelle et littératures post-coloniales : la fiction indo-anglaise non-mimétique des écrivains des communautés indiennes nationale et internationale." Paris 3, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA030134.
Full textThis thesis studies how the Indian writer in English “by experimenting with traditional narrative forms” and “by choosing modes that are unconformable to the European episteme” indulges in counterrealistic writing that defies traditional national, linguistic or generic classifications. Through the three phases of “figuration,” “configuration” and “reconfiguration,” the research aims at studying the counterrealistic artifice in the works of diasporic authors – Salman Rushdie and Suniti Namjoshi – as well as the non-diasporic fiction of Namita Gokhale who writes in English, and Tamil writing in English translation in the works of R. Krishnamurthy (Kalki) and C. S. Lakshmi (Ambai). The intermingling of ancient Eastern and Western figurations of myths, fables, legends and folklore, the dual configuration of Eastern and Western world views and the postmodern recycling of old narratives to suit the changing times reveal how postcolonial writers renew the spirit of the culture, revitalise language, renew literature and reconfigure inherited configurations by reframing other frames of reference. By deconstructing the grand narrative of Western history through an interrogation of its tropes and its content, the counterrealists structure a re-imagined mode of representation that encompasses both the historical past and the postcolonial present
Liotard, Corinne. "Les romans d'Anita Desai : une mosai͏̈que à l'image du monde." Rennes 2, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001REN20044.
Full textFar from having the negative vision that many critics reproach her with, Anita Desai endows her works with a more positive philosophy than one might think at first. Although it is true that her novels are based upon a fragmented and chaotic world which alienates the individual, this thesis nevertheless sets to prove that out of chaos and the desperate quest of the characters, there always emerges a unified and quasi-divine vision of the world -a macroscopic vision which, though short-lived, enables one to have an overall view of all the fragments that make up her world and thus to be able to appreciate its beauty and raison d'être through harmonies, parallelisms, contrasts and counterpoints. The apparent chaos in Anita Desai's novels is conveyed, among other things, by devices borrowed from other literary genres -theatre and poetry especially- and by a multiplicity of languages, wether western or eastern, which led us to draw a parallel with Anita Desai herself, on account of both her western and eastern origins, and her multilingualism. In our quest for the multiform and multicoloured unity that makes up Anita Desai's world, we studied the different facets of that seemingly fragmented universe, as well as the various devices which account for the writers' philosophy, bringing to the forefront Anita Desai's use of symbolism, an essential element in her writing by which means she conveys her vision of the world
Farkhondeh, Iris. "Représentations des femmes dans la littérature sanskrite du Cachemire (VIIIe-XIIe siècles)." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCA140.
Full textThis thesis presents an explanatory typology of the female characters who feature in the corpus of four Sanskrit literary works written in Kashmir between the 8th and 12th centuries : Dāmodaragupta’s Kuṭṭanī-mata, Kṣemendra’s Samaya-mātṛkā, Somadeva’s Kathā-sarit-sāgara, and Kalhaṇa’s Rāja-taraṅgiṇī. A large spectrum of female behaviors and status appears here in literary representation. While the behavior of some female characters corresponds to the expectations of the legal texts, that of others can seem surprising and atypical: risk-taking women, sometimes pittoresque, clearly deviate from the norm. Between these two extremes, the female characters are more or less prone to take the initiative and to various degrees to take advantage of whatever space they have to manoeuver in, and to take benefit of whatever decision-making power they might have. While the authors are men who subscribe to the essential core of Brahmanic social norms, their point of view on women is, however, ambiguous. Not only does the treatment of the female characters vary according to the authors, but it varies also within the same work, depending on context. Reading the works of this corpus helps to define what appears as essential concerning marriage and spouse relations in the legal texts. This study also allows for the evaluation of some of the legal texts’ assertions about women. In fact, the comparison of these sources shows how the legal texts integrated certain practices that the authors of these texts had to take into consideration. In the end, one has to ask the question of to what degree the Kashmirian literature of this time described contemporaneous society. The critical view of Tantric practices especially in the satirical works of Kṣemendra, but also in the Rāja-taraṅgiṇī, is indeed proof that contemporary reality has a place in this literature. It is of an immense advantage to study works from a well-defined region and time – something so rare in Indian Studies that it can be easily appreciated. This advantage allows us to emphasize the difference in treatment of female characters among different authors, and among different genres (satires, story collections, chronicles), as well as according to the different audiences, since we know that these differences cannot be explained as being simply regional
Wendling, Cathy-Anne. "Entre Orient et Occident : les romans malgudiens de R. K. Narayan : perspectives critiques." Nancy 2, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998NAN21023.
Full textThis dissertation deals with R. K. Narayan's novels that are between two civilizations. His work, which reflects the social and cultural aspects of India, is also cross-fertilized because of the use of the English language. However, further analysis shows that the malgudian novels implicitly reject British culture and put the emphasis on the past and on Vedic thought. The aesthetics of these novels match this aspect: R. K. Narayan's narrative techniques are rooted in the field of rasa theory which emphasizes reader's participation and empathy. This explains why it seems logical to use the tools of the modem reception theory to study his work since its tenets are very similar to rasa. Thus we can see that the cross-fertilization can also take place during the reading process which enables every reader to discover and appreciate an exogenous culture
Negers, Daniel. "Le Burrakatha d'Andhra Pradesh (Inde) : essai de description d'une forme narrative théâtralisée en langue télougoue : l'importance de l'expression littéraire dans la communication et la culture populaires." Paris 10, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA100160.
Full textRuiz, Virginie. "Rosario Castellanos et l'altérité indienne dans la "trilogie du Chiapas" : une vision ethnocentrique de l'Indien mexicain." Phd thesis, Université du Sud Toulon Var, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00596305.
Full textPousse, Michel. "La révolution indienne dans les années trente à travers les romans de M. R. Anand, de R. Rao et de R K. Narayan." Paris 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1996PA030028.
Full textPolitical events taking place in india in the thirties directly affect the works of indian novelists writing in english. These are the years when m. R. Anand, raja rao and r. K. Narayan publish their first novels. Today, it would seem that these novels, acclaimed at the time of publication as the first unbiased descriptions of india were exponents of the authors' political convictions. The presentation of each of the theree novelists, of the indoanglian literary movement and of the socio-political context of the day is followed by three main parts dealing with the literary presentation of the english in india, of the indian themselves and of the literary contribution of the novels under study to the revolutionary movement. It is shown in the conclusion that the seven novels studied in this work bear witness to the spirit of the time more than they prove the literary innovations they have too long been regarded as
Soukaï, Sandrine. "Les Ombres de la Partition dans les romans indiens et pakistanais de langue anglaise." Thesis, Paris 4, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA040138.
Full textPartition inhabits the Indian and the Pakistani novel in English through modernist tropes such as ellipsis and fragmentation, metaphors of mutilation, dislocation and exile, and the symbolic figure of the refugee. The unspeakable violence of this trauma is also embedded within the narrative through the visual and poetic trope of the shadows, which has not been examined yet. In the novel Twilight in Delhi (1940), the shadows are premonitions of the cataclysm of 1947 as they stage the devastating impacts of colonial modernity on the high Muslim culture of India. In four novels published after the division of the subcontinent – Sunlight on a Broken Column (1961), Clear Light of Day (1980), The Shadow Lines (1988), Burnt Shadows (2009) –, the shadows are indelible, porous and unstable memory-traces that permeate the regional cartography and individual psyches. Together with the dual motives of the ghost and the mirror, these shadows subvert the official historiography and open up a discursive space in which the memories of subaltern individuals and families, transmitted over several generations, connect Partition to other international traumas via knots of multidirectional memory. Through their visual dimension, the shadows shape a body memory which involves the reader in an empathic and reflexive semiotics of the gaze
Raza, Rosemary. "In their own words : British women writers and India, 1740-1857 /." Oxford : Oxford university press, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40989385w.
Full textMahatma, Maitryee. "Sitā et ses doubles : mythes et représentations dans les oeuvres d'Ananda Devi." Paris 13, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA131025.
Full textThe aim of this research is to study the quest of identity in the women characters in Ananda Devi’s novels. Devi is a Mauritian author of Indian origin. Our study reveals that the evolution of the women passes through three major stages : “l’identité-idem” or collective identification, the desire of identifying oneself to a particular group; “l’identité-ipsé” on the contrary is the desire to see oneself as unique within a certain group of individuals; l’”animus”, we define this term as the suppressed desires which are condemned by the society. Along with these three phases of identification, what characterises Devi’s women is that in their serge for emancipation they identify themselves with the Hindu mythical figures. In our study we have explored various images in Devi’s writings in order to reveal the existing links between Devi’s women and the following mythical figures : Sitā, Draupadi, Kālī. In fact, this experience of identification with the mythical figures is closed interlinked with the evolutionary phases defined above. In each of her evolutionary phase the woman identifies to one particular mythical figure : Sitā-identité-idem, Draupadi-identité-ipsé, and Kālī-animus
Tschannerl, Volker M. "Das Lachen in der altindischen Literatur /." Frankfurt am Main ; Berlin : P. Lang, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39207063j.
Full textFée, Armelle. "Canon littéraire et identité indienne : l'écriture métisse." Paris 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA030049.
Full textSchnakenbourg, Christian. "L'immigration indienne en Guadeloupe (1848-1923) : histoire d'un flux migratoire." Aix-Marseille 1, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005AIX10012.
Full textPonzanesi, Sandra. "Paradoxes of postcolonial culture : contemporary women writers of the Indian and Afro-Italian diaspora /." Albany : State university of New York press, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb400414161.
Full textMertens, Annemarie. "Der Daksamythus in der episch-purānischen Literatur : Beobachtungen zur religionsgeschichtlichen Entwicklung des Gottes Rudra-Śiva im Hinduismus /." Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38896827d.
Full textSaint-Mezard, Isabelle. "La Look East policy indienne ou La politique régionaliste de l'Inde à l'égard de l'Asie orientale." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001IEPP0014.
Full textSapowicz, Philippe. "Carl Gustav Jung et la pensée indienne." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040150.
Full textThe purpose of our thesis is to bring to light the various contributions of Indianphilosophies that have influenced the works of Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961).Oriental sources, and Indian classical philosophies in particular, found asignificant echo in Jung's thought. The Swiss psychiatrist takes a look at Indianspirituality that is at once critical and admiring, taking into account thecomplexities of the Indian philosophical world. Our questions will revolvearound Jung's method of interpretation of Indian texts from a psychoanalyticalperspective, showing in the process the closeness of Indian soteriologies and ofBuddhism to the Western healing practices of the soul
Sreenivasan, Ramya. "The many lives of a Rajput queen : heroic pasts in India c. 1500-1900 /." Seattle : University of Washington press, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb413226282.
Full textEgreteau, Renaud. "L'Inde, la Chine et l'enjeu birman : la rivalité sino-indienne en Birmanie et ses limites depuis 1988." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006IEPP0058.
Full textThe advent of a new military regime in Burma in 1988 changed the geopolitical configuration of the country. By getting closer to China, sole power embracing the new junta and opposing its diplomatic isolation, Burma chose to abandoned its traditional neutral position between India, China and the rest of Asia. Fearing a potential threat at its doorstep, India began to review its Burma policy and to establish a strategic partnership with the Burmese military regime so as to counterweight China and its thrust towards the Indian Ocean. By entering the game, India created the conditions of the birth of a rivalry between the two giants in Burma. Given the youth of the phenomenon, the theoretical approach of proto-rivalries configurations is the best suited. However, Burma offers many resistances to the recent Indian and Chinese expansion through its own territory. Strong and historical nationalist and xenophobic tendencies towards Indian and Chinese minorities in Burma, divisions and frustrations among India and China’s elite regarding the conduct of their own Burmese policy as well as the new management of the global sino-indian rivalry are as so many potential obstacles to the development of a an enduring rivalry between India and China around the Burmese issue
Ramsamy, Jean-Régis. "La galaxie des noms malbar : les débuts de l'intégration des engagés à la Réunion, 1828-1901 /." Sainte-Marie (Réunion) : Azalées éd, 2006. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb40207665r.
Full textLa couv. porte en plus : "histoire" ; "île de la Réunion" En appendice, choix de documents. Bibliogr. p. 247-250. Glossaire. Index.
Komalesha, H. S. "Issues of identity in Indian English fiction : a close reading of canonical Indian English novels /." Oxford : Peter Lang, 2008. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41328568g.
Full textAmrani, Ourida. "La valeur symbolique de l'Inde chez Rudyard Kipling." Paris 4, 1990. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA040032.
Full textIn the symbolism of India, the word "symbol" is considered as meaning an "image". It is the "image" of India herself. Kipling's India is suggested by the immediate object and the description that he gives us grows into a "vision", then becomes a "symbol". India is the symbol of the world and of life. And, as India is intimately linked to the stages and roots of Kipling’s life, she is not only an external symbol, but also an inner one. India is linked to what is innermost in the personal nature of the man Kipling, his life, his sentiments and his ideas. To explain this, we have used the psychological method associated with the sociological one in the first part entitled "India in Kipling’s life", the second part is about Kipling’s search for identity, a quest for the other self with a whole symbolic value inherited of the realities of the west as well as of the dreams of childhood. Finally, in the third part we have described the landscape of India herself as a symbolic universe. Thus, Kipling’s India has been described as a symbol of paradise, of nostalgia, of hell, a symbol of the British Empire and the world of action, a symbol of the religious quest and lastly a symbol of the world
Arp, Susmita. "Kālāpāni : zum Streit über die Zulässigkeit von Seereisen im kolonialzeitlichen Indien /." Stuttgart : F. Steiner, 2000. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb376445503.
Full textMuckensturm-Poulle, Claire. "Les gymnosophistes dans la littérature grecque de l'époque impériale." Paris 10, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA100156.
Full textHeydari-Malayeri, Mélanie. "La tentation du devenir-autre. L'oeuvre protéenne de Vikram Seth." Thesis, Paris 3, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA030145.
Full textBorn in Calcutta in 1952, Vikram Seth occupies a highly original place on the postcolonial literary scene, owing to the dazzling variety of his work. Indeed, his career has been one of restless reinvention: skipping from economist to poet, to travel writer, to novelist-in-verse, to librettist, to translator and to children’s writer, Vikram Seth even tried his hand at biography in Two Lives (2005). His writing displays a deep-seated abhorrence of uniformity: every new book by Seth creates a fresh departure in genre and theme, and moves seamlessly from one geographical and cultural location to another, revealing a distinct cosmopolitan sensibility that makes Seth’s affiliations and cultural moorings all but impossible to fathom. Seth’s protean opus thus proves miraculously immune to any definitive categorization. In fact, however, the generic heterogeneity of Seth’s work masks a hidden unity, which lies in a deliberate use of pastiche: Vikram Seth treats Western canonical texts as raw material, in an ostensibly unfashionable attempt to go back to earlier models of literary tradition. Why does Seth strive to preserve the European literary legacy so ostentatiously through the use of pastiche, a practice that is traditionally belittled in the West? Although current critiques of Vikram Seth’s writing berate him for evading the politics of his own cultural, historical and political location, I will argue that pastiche acquires a critical dimension in Seth’s work through the notion of "mimicry". Vikram Seth’s work sheds light on the radically enunciative quality of textuality, throwing into sharp relief the historicity of language
Gemme, Martin. "L'évolution du discours des intellectuels mexicains sur l'Indien au XXe siècle : une littérature au service de l'État." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/18092.
Full textGagnant, de Weck Anne. "Divan indien : pratiques de la psychanalyse et modes d'individualisation dans l'Inde urbaine contemporaine." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCB129.
Full textThis research focuses on the psychoanalytic practice today in Delhi. We outline the long history of Indian psychoanalysis and then we try to describe the various forms taken by the psychoanalytic practice in the Indian context in order to understand how these forms relate to the social tensions that surround the increasing appeal of individualistic values in the Middle Class of Delhi. Basing ourselves on interviews with about fourty therapists and patients and on participant observation in the psychoanalytic circles of Delhi, we show that the growing number of psychoanalysts and psychotherapists in Indian large cities is due to the far-reaching changes that have occurred in the Indian society since economic and social liberalization in the 1990s. The rich and detailed description of three women's life stories (one psychoanalyst and two patients) enables us to understand better how these changes have an impact on the subjective transformations of specific individuals. This work has two sides, intricately linked between themselves: on the one hand, I take the therapist's private practice as a place where people negotiate, give form and meaning to the social changes that are happening; on the other hand, I describe the way the social structures and collective perceptions of the Indian society shape the specificities of Indian therapy
Mächler, Tobar Ernesto. "Vision de l'Indien à travers le roman colombien du XXe siècle." Paris 3, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA030060.
Full textThe indigenous human being present in Latin American countries generates forcefully an ideological discourse from the point of view of the white man who detains political and ideological power. It is a discourse trough which the latter one attempts to justify and affirm his dominant position. This dissertation intends to understand the image this discourse conveys, as well as the concrete consequences it displays. Its first approach is analyzed through a study of colombian social thought from a historical point of view, that is, from the colombian access to political independence to present times. It traces the most important ideological influences, and, specifically, geographical determinism. It studies the indigenous collective action as a citizen belonging to the republic and to its life, its problems concerning the care of its soil as well as its cultural endeavours. A second approach is considered through an analysis of anthropological discourse, tracing its development specifically from the influence of french travellers to the new present scientific vision. It examines the catholic church's point of view and the changes it proposes concerning the indigenous problem. It takes into account the indian stand before colombian law and why this law is not applyed. It also takes into account four different readings taken from popular imagery. Its third and last approach focusses on the indigenous theme as it is treated in colombian twentieth century novel, its indigenous and indian tendencies, its antecedents, and its thematic manifestations. It concludes that the indigenous man is a despoliated, contemptible, and ignored human being, of which its most elemental realities are unknown. As such, he becomes invisible
Yves, Patrice. "De Kipling à Ghandi : le mouvement pour l'indépendance de l'Inde de 1885 à 1938." Lyon 3, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992LYO31010.
Full textThe subject of this work is to draw the basic circumstances for the developement of a structurated independance movement in india in light of the study of the colonial society weaknesses. The work include four parts. . Kipling's india : british india's society and colonial administration ; relationship and control of the states- study of three british authors : kipling (apogee of colonialism) - conan doyle (colonialism as a common notion) - forster (a critical view) a review of the main liberation movements in india from eighteen eighty five to nineteen ten four. The youth of three independance leaders : gandhy, nehru and bose. Three experiences of life under a colonial rule - three kind of revoltes. Influence of the western developpement pattern. . Political life and activism of gandhi, nehru and bose. Choice between a moral and spiritual conception of the indian society or a move toward a westernized, secular and socialist society- choice of a violent or non-violent struggle-taking port in the british-established institutions or not ?. Failure of bose and its modernist and outhoritarian views-gandhi and nehru prevail. The rise of the muslim league- the pattern of today india comes out as the eve of the second world war
Ponnou, Marcelle. "Évolution de l'image de l'Inde dans la littérature géographique de l'Antiquité à la Renaissance." Paris 12, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988PA120057.
Full textThe relations existing between india and europe during the period of antiquity disappeared almost completly during the middle age and revived during the renaissance period, thanks to the travels. The travellers brought up the knowledge about india. Researches are made in different type of geographical literatures, which are : travellers' tales, cosmographic studies and the missionaries' letters
Domoison, Patrice. "Insertions indiennes en sociétés créoles : Contribution à une approche anthropologique de groupes d'ascendance indienne de Martinique, de Guadeloupe et de Guyane." Antilles-Guyane, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010AGUY0328.
Full textMost ofthe experts agree to write that the Indian immigrants' contribution in the Caribbean French colonies has been a benefit on the whole in the economy ofthe welcoming countries. Indeed, these years of immigration have contributed to the improvement ofthe sugar cane culture an by extension to the increase of the sugar production. Nevertheless, the planters have used the engaged Indians to break up the legitimate claiming ofthe freed slaves. Today, the Indian participation to the Martinican, Guadeloupian and Guyanese economical development has kept on increasing contributing to the promotion ofnew generations. Conscuenthy, these Indians worked descents play an important part in the economical activity oftheir region mainly in the agricultural and transport fields. The effect ofthis social evolution is the increasing number ofthe workforce in the civil service, the marketing services and the liberal professions. The urbanization of people from India is original. The professional diversification has provoked a sharp improvement ofthe living environment, what corresponds to a remarkable increase on the west Indian socioeconomical scale. However, in spite ofa success full integration, these men have jealously conserved the elements oftheir cultural heritage, which testify their difference within the Indian and Guyanese melting-pot. The different rites, mainly tamij constitute an enrichment ofour plural society, locking for identity. The question ofthe renewal ofthe hindu religions practices in creoles lands is legitimate. The Indian social evolution and the fact that they acquired new knowledge naturally participate to the promotion ofthat millennial philosophy. As a conclusion, we may say that engaged Indians descents' contribution to the creoles society identification i undeniable
Osier-Laderman, Étienne. "La notion d'action (karman) dans l'Inde classique : étude de texte choisis." Paris 4, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040222.
Full textOrprayoon, Thipsuda. "Quelques aspects de la religion et de la philosophie de l'Inde dans la littérature du XIXe siècle français." Université Stendhal (Grenoble ; 1970-2015), 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992GRE39024.
Full textAs the 19e century in the french literature coincide with the orientalism, the romantiques and the parnassiens are among the first groups of writers to get in direct touch with the work of the indianists. Alfred de vigny found, in indian spiritualism, the idea of the ascension of spirit and the "silence" of the buddha. Victor hugo was interested in the indian exotisme, and in hindu aspects that the public. Lamartine and michelet try to find confirmations of their prejudice in favour of romantic thoughts. Leconte de lisle and jean lahor were tempted by the doctrine of nothingness, that they thought taught by the buddha. In sum, we can say that india had an important influence on french literature of 19e century, although her religion and philosophie were oftenly incorrectly interpreted by the authors, who used them to serve their ideas or feelings
Droit, Roger-Pol. "La découverte du bouddhisme et la philosophie européenne (1820-1890)." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040013.
Full textWhy were the Indian doctrines, considered to be philosophical when European orientalists were learning Sanskrit at the end of the XIIIth and at the beginning of the XIXth centuries, later left out of the philosophical arena? It gradually transpired that the particular moment when Buddhism was discovered and the development of a philosophical interpretation of its “nihilism” were an essential factor in this shelving of the Indian domain. Thus it was important to bring out certain specific features of the discovery of Buddhism by the European orientalists and a systematic analysis of the characteristics of the interpretation of Buddhism by German philosophers (from Hegel to Nietzsche) and French philosophers (from Cousin to Renouvier). The result of this research have been described in two works : L'oubli de l'Inde, une amnesie philosophique. (Forgetting India : a case of philosophical amnesia), Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1989, and a new, revised edition : Paris, le livre de poche, biblio-essais, 1992, 254 p. , et Le culte du néant (The cult of nothingness) Paris, editions du Seuil, 1997, 368 p. , as well as in several articles published between 1987 and 1997. The main conclusion is that the multi-layered notion of “nihilism”, essential to contemporary thought, was gradually reassessed through the discovery of a disconcerting “religion”, its various elements were rearranged and its different levels of meaning were given a new philosophical interpretation. The philosophical variations on Buddhism and the various forms of the “cult of nothingness” attributed to it can and should be considered as an unnoticed laboratory of European thought experimenting on the limits of its own identity
Bourdonneau, Éric. "Indianisation et formation de l'État en Asie du Sud-Est : retour sur trente ans d'historiographie : matériaux pour l'étude du Cambodge ancien." Paris 1, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA010706.
Full textZecchini, Laetitia. "Poétique de la relation et de la dissidence dans la poésie indienne contemporaine en anglais et en hindi." Paris 4, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA040204.
Full textThis research endeavours to make up for the lack of visibility and of academic attention given to contemporary Indian poetry in France. It is a comparative study between Indian poetry in English, focusing on the works of Arun Kolatkar (1932-2004) and Keki Daruwalla (born in 1937) and Indian poetry in Hindi, focusing on the works of Gagajan Madhav Muktibodh (1917-1964) and Kedarnath Singh (born in 1934). Their works illustrate the evolution of Indian poetry from a transitive protestpoetry, to a more indirect dissidence, which keeps away from ideology and from the pressure of outside events. These four poets respond to the dislocation and the fragmentation of the Indian cultural, political and social field in the middle of the twentieth century by giving shape to a « poetics of relation », to borrow a term from Edouard Glissant, which expresses the idea that without the other there is no language for the self. They claim a hybrid heritage, that of the immediate impact of modernity, but also that of a plural and often heterodox « non-literate sub-continent ». They challenge the purity and the closure of the monolithic text, by asserting overlapping, reflexive, dialogic identities and by creating an intertextual, multilingual fabric for their poetry. These plural belongings and plural identities subvert any kind of exclusive understanding of language, of meaning, of the sacred, of the past or of identity. The emphasis is on the conversion of the act of seeing, on revealing rather than on loudly demonstrating, and this poetic conversion is fundamentally political
Gopal, Priyamvada. "Literary radicalism in India : gender, nation and the transition to independence /." New York ; London : Routledge, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39928268p.
Full textFoulon, Jacqueline. "Représentation de l'Indien dans le roman américain de la première moitié du 19e siècle." Thesis, Paris Est, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PEST0049.
Full textThis work results from the close reading of nineteen American novels written in the first half of the 19th century, in a search of the various representations of the Indian they might display. Crossed investigations proved that the authors, well-informed about the violent past of their familiar areas and about their former inhabitants, mostly chose the forms of the historical romance and tale : either noble or ignoble, Indians were rejected out of the new nation. Yet, the ironical Paulding, the Christian Cooper and the humanist Strange styled their Indian characters in an open and human way. Following the gothic and romantic influences, C.B. Brown, Neal, Bird despite a more realistic tone, pictured Indians as the negative part of the self which is to be repelled. On the contrary, the woman's voices of Child and Sedgwick sketched them as ideal knights. Simms and Cooper sometimes set them in the violence of an epic drama out of which the new Adam will arise, sometimes in the sublime beauty of pristine American wilderness. So, no national destiny is left for the Indian but one buried in fancy
Lamour, Pierre-Yves. "La littérature contemporaine des indiens d'Amérique du Nord en quête d'une nouvelle identité." Paris 4, 1985. https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01098460.
Full textContemporary North-American Indians write to keep and revive their identity in a changing world. Their poems or novels highlight a spleen of their own: modern American Indian writers ride on, with Winter in the blood, but Spring in the heart
Veloupoulé, Aurélie. "Les mouvements de la "Réforme de la Vie" au contact de la culture et des traditions corporelles indiennes." Thesis, La Réunion, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LARE0043.
Full textFrom the end of the 19th century, the Lebensreform (Life reform) covers three aspects which are modernity (industrial era), crisis in values, and the emergence of new artistic, cultural and social practices in German-speaking countries. The Lebensreform is a response to the break with modernity; new collective lifestyles are born. Hosting places build their own lifestyle around a program of renewals and reconciliation with nature, adopting several reforms of life. At the same time, artistic and spriritual India evolved and influenced modern Western art from whence grew cross-cultural gateways and bridges. Artists from the Lebensreform adopted new corporal forms of expression inspired by Indian art (mudrâs, rythm, etc.). This thesis concerns itself with the « esthetic performative » with the knowledge that the art of modern dancing, viewed from the angle of the performative concept, may be said to have emerged as a global mode of communication, and a non verbal language. Modern art as developed in German-speaking community has also led to a new quest, a search for our own identity through an exploratory movement
Schneider, Pierre. "La confusion entre l'Inde et l'Ethiopie (VIIIème s. Av. J. -C. - VIème s. Ap. J. -C. )." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040254.
Full textThe ancient texts, either geographical or not, offer us many cases of confusions between India and Ethiopia i. E. Anything relating to Africa is often named Indian and inversely. These many confusions whose a systematic inventory has been established appear in different fields: geography, history, mythology, fauna, flora and mineralogy. A careful study of all these texts allows us to understand much better the nature of this phenomenon. There is not a simple kind of confusion and the confusion is rarely a simple error. Particularly, it seems that Greek and roman people, contrary to the moderns, did not feel the confusion between India and Ethiopia as a problem. In others respects, this is not an uniform phenomenon. It has developed during the antiquity different evolutions, but it has been never really flagged. This analysis is completed with a thorough study of the texts written by authors who were inclined, more than others, to make confusions. The research of the causes of this phenomenon leads us to several directions. The Mesopotamian influence (the two meluhha) does not seem to be proved, but the Greek and roman way of thinking has led an important part. The geographical knowledge during the antiquity is a cause of confusion as well as the Indian Ocean trade which has fostered it. Finally, in certain cases, this phenomenon does not find its explanation in general causes but in individual causes which originates often in literature
Ajit, Aarthi. "The transmission of Tharavad memory : histories in circulation via the remembrance of the ancestral House in Kerala." Thesis, Paris 10, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA100118.
Full textThis thesis is an intergenerational study of how and for what purposes French citizens of Malayali origin (from Kerala in south-west India) remember, identify and engage with their ancestral Houses in Kerala known as Tharavads. The memories of and actions taken towards Houses in Kerala are explored principally through multi-site ethnographic research of French citizens of Malayali origin in Île-de-France and French citizens living in Mahe, part of the Union Territory of Puducherry, South India, as well as other towns in Kerala. The work presented here is thus a reflection on the relation between memory and kinship through recollections of ancestral Houses. It also examines what occurs, consequently, in the absence of transmission of cultural memory from one generation to another. There are diverse actions taken by members of the Malayali diaspora and French citizens of Malayali origin toward enabling environments of Malayali identity, culture and Tharavad narrative for their children – actions which are significant for imparting Tharavad knowledge and history to the younger generation. A central point in this thesis is whether, how and why dispersed individuals and families of Malayali origin living in France renew their kinship links to one or several Tharavads. This thesis also examines what the Tharavad means for Tharavad members or descendants who grew up in and around these ancestral Houses, as well as the relevance of the Tharavad today