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Journal articles on the topic "Mauritian literature"
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Vasilyeva, L. A. "Indo-Maritius Muslims: genesis of their Religious Identity." Minbar. Islamic Studies 12, no. 1 (June 4, 2019): 78–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.31162/2618-9569-2019-12-1-78-94.
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The paper focuses on the Indo-Mauritian Muslim Community, which plays an important role in the social and political life of the island state. The paper deals with the revival of the Urdu language spoken by the Indo-Mauritian Muslims who had almost lost the “ancestral tongue” in the process of adaptation to the Mauritius` multi-ethnic and multi- religious society through the eighteenth – nineteenth century. The study reconstructs a brief history of the Urdu-speaking Indian Muslims` migration to Mauritius and their partial assimilation with the local society. The Muslim migrants accepted the local Creole language and some elements of their culture but remained loyal to their religion and traditional Muslim values. The author makes a special emphasis upon the means of revival and development of Urdu language and the formation of the Mauritian Urdu Literature. The Urdu language today is a tool of self-identification of Indo-Mauritian Muslims and primary marker of their religious identity as well.
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Salverda, Tijo. "Embodied Signs of Elite Distinction:Franco-Mauritians’ White Skin-Colour in the Face of Change." Comparative Sociology 10, no. 4 (2011): 548–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156913311x590628.
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AbstractThis article examines the symbolic elite distinction of the Franco-Mauritians’ white skin colour, as a contribution to literature on symbols of elite distinction. The case study is set to analyse how Franco-Mauritians’ white skin colour works as a sign of elite distinction in addition to cultural differences between them and other Mauritians - which are influenced by labour division and reinforced by the structure of Mauritian society. The article underlines the intricacy of physical appearance in the transition from the colonial period (ending in 1968) to independence. It also shows how such embodied signs are persistent and ambiguous.
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Gungadeen, Sanjiv, Megan Paull, and David Holloway. "Partisanship and organisational change in Mauritius." Journal of Organizational Change Management 31, no. 3 (May 14, 2018): 656–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jocm-06-2016-0117.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report on a study of change management practices in private sector organisations in the small island economy of Mauritius. Design/methodology/approach Interviews were conducted with key decision makers and individuals who had experienced the organisational change process in three private organisations from different sectors in Mauritius: a bank, a hotel and a privatised state-owned enterprise. A grounded theory approach was employed to establish the key dimensions of organisational change in this setting. Findings Organisational change is a multi-dimensional, multi-directional and evolutionary process strongly influenced by the contextual and historical aspects of the country. The emerging key elements of change identified in the data confirmed a range of dimensions evident in the extant literature, but also identified a largely unacknowledged factor, considered to be central to the change process in Mauritian organisations. This emerging factor was identified as partisanship. Originality/value This study served to confirm six dimensions evident in the extant literature on organisational change: organisational structure, organisational culture, leadership processes, individuals, knowledge management and resistance to change. A seventh dimension, and heretofore largely unacknowledged factor, considered to be central to the change process in Mauritian organisations was also identified: partisanship. The study identified this emerging key dimension as having a pervasive influence. History, culture and context have served to embed this dimension in Mauritian organisations. Evidence is presented to illustrate how the process of organisational change is undertaken in Mauritius, and identify the role of partisanship. This has the potential to be applied to other small island economies with similar historical, cultural or contextual features.
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Mahadew, Roopanand. "The implementation of the SADC code on HIV/AIDS and employment in Mauritius: successes and prospects." International Journal of Law and Management 62, no. 4 (May 15, 2020): 355–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijlma-02-2018-0030.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive overview of the implementation of the Southern African Community Development (SADC) Code on HIV/AIDS and employment in Mauritius. It focusses on the existing normative framework on HIV/AIDS and employment in Mauritius and the ways in which adopting various aspects of the SADC Code could further bolster the framework for more effective protection of people with HIV/AIDS at the workplace. Design/methodology/approach The methodology used is based on a mix of the legal research method and case study analysis. The SADC Code is analysed, and its application and relevance to the Mauritian context are assessed. Findings The implementation of the SADC Code into the Mauritian legal framework is still at its infancy. Despite being a state party to it, Mauritius has not done much towards the domestication of the Code which explains the incomplete protection of employees with HIV/AIDS at the workplace from discrimination. Practical implications This paper serves as a tool for civil society organisations and other stakeholders to understand the SADC Code and also to engage in a debate related to its implementation in Mauritius. Originality/value There has been dearth of literature on the legal aspects of HIV/AIDS and employment in Mauritius. This paper serves as a platform on which this debate can be initiated and continued.
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Issur, Kumari. "Mapping ocean-state Mauritius and its unlaid ghosts: Hydropolitics and literature in the Indian Ocean." Cultural Dynamics 32, no. 1-2 (January 25, 2020): 117–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0921374019900703.
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In the wake of what has been termed “the scramble for the oceans,” the Republic of Mauritius lodged an application in 2012 with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to recognize its rights to an Exclusive Economic Zone that comprises a large expanse of the Indian Ocean, and subsequently redefined itself as an ocean-state. This new configuration raises as many issues as it answers. The Indian Ocean remains firmly central both to Mauritian history and to its imaginary. All at once, the endless fluidity of the ocean renders material traces and academic archeology harder, yet somehow it traps and sediments memory and meaning in some ways more profoundly than land. This article bores and drills into the historical, geopolitical, and ontological depths of ocean-state Mauritius with the figure of the ghost as motif, metaphor, and witness.
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Chummun, Bibi Zaheenah, and Mpho Mathithibane. "Challenges and Coping Strategies of Covid-2019 in the Tourism Industry in Mauritius." December 2020, no. 9(5) (December 31, 2020): 810–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.46222/ajhtl.19770720-53.
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The tourism industry of the Small Island Developing States (SIDS) where Mauritius is one of them has been heavily impacted by 2019-nCoV due to its high reliance on foreign tourism. The study seeks to measure the effect of 2019-nCoV on the Mauritian tourism industry as well as its coping mechanism. The study methodology employs secondary data which has been sourced from academic journal publications, literature, documents from the Ministry of Tourism, government papers and other research readings. Secondary data was analysed through literature reviews and findings among others reveal negative impacts on economic activity and employment as a good percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) comes from the Mauritian tourism industry. However, the small island of Mauritius has not given up in its struggle towards recovering its tourism industry to a certain extent. Although the small island has been declared a free zone of 2019-nCoV by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), the increase in the number of cases from other countries is likely to have a strong bearing on the tourism industry of Mauritius. It is imperative that the island adopts a rigorous recovery approach in responding to the pandemic before the inflows and outflows of tourists occur again. It is recommended that taking proactive measures through planning the strict health-related safety measures and guidelines, green-focused tourism interventions amongst others and implementation thereof, should be undertaken by both the employees in the hospitality sector and the visiting tourists while the small island awaits for the upliftment of quarantine restrictions.
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Ramdhony, Dineshwar. "Corporate Social Reporting By Mauritian Banks." International Journal of Accounting and Financial Reporting 5, no. 2 (July 28, 2015): 56. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijafr.v5i2.8067.
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The paper examines CSR disclosures by commercial banks operating in Mauritius. Annual reports for the year 2011 were scrutinized using content analysis. Five categories of disclosure were chosen in line with the Code of corporate governance and prior studies. Due to the small number (20) of banks operating in the country all banks were selected. Findings show that banks with higher visibility disclose more CSR information thus confirming that the legitimacy theory is an explanation for CSR disclosure by Mauritian banks. CSR reporting is prevalent among all banks but forty percent of banks disclose CSR information relating to one category only showing a narrow view of CSR. The primary area of disclosure is ‘Human resources’ which is at odds with previous studies. The paper contributes to the scarce literature on CSR disclosures by banks in a developing country.
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Amelot, Lydie Myriam Marcelle, Subadar Agathee Ushad, and Mattew Lamport. "Capital Structure and Political Risk in an Emerging Market: Evidence from Companies Listed on the Stock Exchange of Mauritius." Business and Economic Research 8, no. 3 (July 30, 2018): 104. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ber.v8i3.13367.
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Cashman, Harrison and Scheiler (2014) stated that companies with less political risk will use more debts than other organisations in other countries with more exposure to political risk. In particular, when there are low political risks, there will be more leverage and when there is high political uncertainty, there will be low debts indicating a negative relationship between financial leverage and political risk (Cashman, 2015). To this effect, this study will investigate the link between capital structure and political risk in an emerging market such as Mauritius. The data sample includes 30 financial and non- financial companies listed on the Stock exchange of Mauritius over a time frame ranging from 2011 to 2015 with a total number of 135 observations. The political risk was based on two World Bank indicators, namely political change index and corruption perceptions index. Based on a panel regression model, the empirical results show an insignificant relationship between financial leverage and political risk. In particular, it is implied that there is little evidence on the importance of political risk on firms’ decision in Mauritius due to the fact that Mauritian companies consider other types of risks to be more relevant when taking on more debts. The study adds to the existing literature on emerging markets and highlights the specificity of the Mauritian equity market relative to other developed markets.
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Tranquille, Danielle. "Inscriptions of dev/fiance: mtissage in Mauritian literature." International Journal of Francophone Studies 8, no. 2 (August 1, 2005): 199–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijfs.8.2.199/1.
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Toorawa, Shawkat M. "‘Strange bedfellows’? Mauritian writers and Shakespeare." Wasafiri 15, no. 30 (September 1999): 27–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02690059908589655.
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Rajkomar, Sraddha Shivani. "Vaishnavism and indentured labour in Mauritian literature." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.579537.
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This thesis addresses two key issues of postcolonial studies that remain under- represented in Anglophone academic circles: the history of Indian indentured labour in Mauritius that began in the nineteenth century and ended in the twentieth century; and the importance of religion in representations of histories of arbitrary colonial control and anti-colonialist struggle. Cross-disciplinary in scope, the thesis nevertheless adopts a literary methodological approach in the examination of poetic and prose texts written by four Mauritian authors from extremely diverse religious and social backgrounds who share a common interest in the fraught history of indenture. These authors are: Leoville L'Homme (1857-1928), Robert-Edward Hart (1891-1954), Marcel Cabon (1912-1972), and Abhimanyu Unnuth (1937- ). Each author's engagement with Vaishnavism, a Hindu tradition, shapes and reflects the visceral individual experiences of a chapter of Mauritian history that brought about one of the most important demographic, social and political changes in the island. In the Introduction, I provide extensive methodological, historical and conceptual contextualisation for the thesis, and establish indenture to be a traumatic phenomenon on a scale that is comparable to that of its predecessor, slavery. The subsequent chapters - which further contribute to postcolonial studies by participating in debates such as Orientalism, colonial desire and masculinity - are each devoted to one author and their relevant texts. In Chapters 1 and 2, I argue that using Vaishnavism, the religion of the colonised, by members of the colonial elite in representations of indenture inevitably consolidates colonialist control in a discursive manner. In Chapters 3 and 4, I look at how the same religion empowers the colonised subject in overcoming the trauma of indenture and in resistance to the sugar plantation system. To conclude, I reflect on the scope of the thesis and its contribution to postcolonial scholarship.
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Bhautoo-Dewnarain, Nandini. "Mauritian writing in English 1900-2000 : a critical survey." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.250083.
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This thesis is a critical survey of Mauritian literature written in English between 1900 and 2000. It covers the four different genres of the novel, the short story, poetry and drama. It aims to place the writing produced over this span of time within the social, historical and cultural context of production. Throughout, I have used the Structuralist construct that authors can only begin to shape themselves into being as authors within the existing discursive literary structures which exist at a specific point in time. It is argued therefore that the strong imitative bent of most of the writing here studied originates from this structuralist determination of authorial identity. However, the authors show their originality by hybridising these discursive genres with alternative cultural influences, emanating from their specific socio-cultural and temporal location In this context I trace the effect of British Colonial Literary pedagogy, as it was developed for India and implemented in British colonies. This substantially contributed to shape the sense of English Literature for the first generation of writers of the novel and for poets. In addition, writers in Mauritius were functioning within a local context where language use was associated with ethnic appurtenance, thus English was appropriated to counteract the elitist tendencies of French and Francophone culture on the island. Thus caught between the elitism of French and the bias of English pedagogy, Mauritian writers in English have remained fairly fixated in conventional notions of canonical genres. This is applicable for all the three major genres: the novel, poetry and drama. It has to be highlighted though, that in the case of drama the forms which have wielded the greatest influence on the dramatists is European and American drama. But, as in the case of the novel and poetry, these authors still function within the same schema of imitation as they reproduce the genres. Innovation can be traced to the new writing of short story writers who have published in a series of anthologies since 1990. This is the focus of my last chapter.
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Bertrand, Sandrine. "Représentations des subalternités, de la ligne de couleur et du genre dans les romans et récits mémoriels mauriciens et réunionnais." Thesis, La Réunion, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LARE0005/document.
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Les romans coloniaux tendaient à représenter les Autres de couleur de manière plus précise et réaliste que la littérature exotique. Comme dans un musée colonial, Ulysse cafre ou l'histoire dorée d'un Noir de Marius-Ary Leblond, Ameenah de Clément Charoux exposent la colonie, son fonctionnement et ses habitants. Les romanciers coloniaux mauriciens et réunionnais décrivent dans le détail, grâce au naturalisme l'intimité des races, autrement dit le génie de chaque race. Marius-Ary Leblond affirment qu'ils seraient plus aptes à décrire le réel insulaire. La représentation de l'Autre de couleur génère un conflit de légitimité. Les femmes de couleur, indiennes, noires, cafrines et métisses sont perçues dans les romans coloniaux comme des Autres à la fois racialisés et genrés. Elles sont subalternes des narrateurs et héros blancs qui parlent pour elles et les représentent. A contrario, dans les romans et les récits mémoriels postcoloniaux féminins, À l'autre bout de moi de Marie-Thérèse Humbert, Rouge Cafrine de Véronique Bourkoff et Femme sept peaux de Monique Séverin, les narratrices et les héroïnes critiquent la persistance de l'idéologie coloniale dans les sociétés anciennement colonisées. Elles donnent de nouvelles visions des femmes de couleur, capables de se représenter, de s'analyser et d'observer la société postcoloniale, car elles sont encore marquées par les stéréotypes et les discours colonialistes, orientalistes et phallocrate qui les détruisent. Paradoxalement, les identités complexes, hétérogènes et multiples des narratrices sont davantage présentes dans les fictions romanesques que dans les types autobiographiques, censés rendre compte de vérité identitaire. Ainsi, les autobiographies à Maurice et à La Réunion sont déconstruites dans les textes de notre corpus : Miettes et Morceaux d'Eileen Lohka, Letan lontan de Rada Gungaloo, Tête Haute de Mémona Hintermann et La Magie de Siva Desiles, une comédie musicale autobiograohique de Jasmine DesilesColonial novels try to represant more precisely the Colored people than exotic literature. As colonial museum, Ulysse cafre ou l’histoire dorée d’un Noir written by Marius-Ary Leblond and Ameenah written by Clément Charoux expose colony, its functioning and natives. These colonials mauritians and reunioneses novelists use naturalism style to describe the intimate of races, genius of races. Marius-Ary Leblond say that they are better able to teach insular world than exotic literature. Colored people representations provoke legitimate conflict. In colonial novels, colored women, (Indians, black, “cafrine” , metis) are regarded as racial Other and gendered Other. They are subaltern of white narrators and heros. Conversely, in postcolonial women mauritian and reunionese novels, (Á l’autre bout de moi written by Marie-Thérèse Humbert, Rouge Cafrine written by Véronique Bourkoff and Femme sept peaux written by Monique Séverin) female narrators and heroines criticize continued colonial ideology, which still goes on in societies that were colonized. They give different visions of colored women, enough to represent themselves, to analyze themselves and observe postcolonial society. They still filled with stereotypes and colonialist, phallocrate, orientalist discourses. These rhetorics destroy their identity. Paradoxaly, complex, heterogeneous and multiple identities of female narrators figure into more novelistic fiction than autobiography. However, autobiography is supposed to account for true female narrator’s identity. This way, mauritian autobiography and reunionese autobiography are deconstructed in the texts of our corpus: Miettes et Morceaux written by Eileen Lohka, Letan lontan written by Rada Gungaloo, Tête Haute written by Mémona Hintermann and La Magie de Siva Desiles an autobiographic music hall written by Jasmine Desiles
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Lavery, Charne. "Writing the Indian Ocean in selected fiction by Joseph Conrad, Amitav Ghosh, Abdulrazak Gurnah and Lindsey Collen." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bc0865da-1b17-47c6-8bb8-46a4fe0962bc.
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Tracked and inscribed across the centuries by traders, pilgrims and imperial competitors, the Indian Ocean is written into literature in English by Joseph Conrad, and later by selected novelists from the region. As this thesis suggests, the Indian Ocean is imagined as a space of littoral interconnections, nomadic cosmopolitanisms, ancient networks of trade and contemporary networks of cooperation and crime. This thesis considers selected fiction written in English from or about the Indian Ocean—from the particular culture around its shores, and about the interconnections among its port cities. It focuses on Conrad, alongside Amitav Ghosh, Abdulrazak Gurnah and Lindsey Collen, whose work in many ways captures the geographical scope of the Indian Ocean: India, East Africa and a mid-point, Mauritius. Conrad’s work is examined as a foundational text for writing of the space, while the later writers, in turn, proleptically suggest a rereading of Conrad’s oeuvre through an oceanic lens. Alongside their diverse interests and emphases, the authors considered in this thesis write the Indian Ocean as a space in and through which to represent and interrogate historical gaps, the ethics and aesthetics of heterogeneity, and alternative geographies. The Indian Ocean allows the authors to write with empire at a distance, to subvert Eurocentric narratives and to explore the space as paradigmatic of widely connected human relations. In turn, they provide a longer imaginative history and an alternative cognitive map to imposed imperial and national boundaries. The fiction in this way brings the Indian Ocean into being, not only its borders and networks, but also its vivid, sensuous, storied world. The authors considered invoke and evoke the Indian Ocean as a representational space—producing imaginative depth that feeds into and shapes wider cultural, including historical, figurations.
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Arnold, Markus. "Écritures de violence et d’interculturalité : enjeux identitaires dans le roman contemporain mauricien d’expression française et anglaise." Thesis, La Réunion, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LARE0002/document.
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Ce travail de recherche interroge un large corpus romanesque de l’île Maurice, produit en français et en anglais pendant les années 1990 et 2010, sur ses différentes inscriptions de la postcolonialité. Ces dernières années voient un mouvement d’innovation et de rupture esthétique, thématique et poétique parmi une jeune génération d’écrivains francophones tandis qu’un tel dynamisme, à quelques exceptions près, semble moins à l’œuvre dans la littérature mauricienne d’expression anglaise. Alors que les voix novatrices des uns se caractérisent par une écriture de la transgression, de la démystification, de l’anti-tropicalisation ainsi qu’une mise en scène complexe d’interrogations sur des questions identitaires, celles des autres restent confinées dans un certain immobilisme. Le constat d’un champ littéraire clivé à plusieurs égards est inévitable. Une lecture croisée, entre ces différentes scénographies, qui s’articule autour des leitmotivs de la violence et de l’interculturalité permettra d’analyser de façon critique un certain nombre de tendances scripturaires romanesques actuellement en coprésence à Maurice. Selon quelles modalités se fait la représentation et la négociation des espaces-temps insulaires ? Quelles logiques ethnoculturelles et dynamiques idéologiques sous-tendent ces textes ? Comment le roman met-il en scène les facteurs de l’ethnicité, de la classe, du genre ? En d’autres mots, comment pense-t-il – ou refuse de penser – la complexité de la nation multiculturelle ? Notre démarche comparatiste visera à comprendre les spécificités dominantes d’un espace littéraire éclaté et en déséquilibre et de problématiser dans quelle mesure le renouveau poétique offre des réflexions novatrices sur les enjeux identitaires contemporains de la société et la littérature mauriciennesThis research project explores the different inscriptions of postcolonial identities in an extensive corpus of Mauritian novels written in French and English between 1990 and 2010. Over these last few decades, aesthetic, thematic and poetic innovation can be observed in a young generation of Francophone Mauritian writers, whereas such tendencies are rare among their Anglophone counterparts. While the former can be characterized by their subversive, demystifying and anti-exoticising postures, as well as their complex ways of interrogating issues of identity, the latter rather seem artistically stagnant. The Mauritian literary field clearly reveals itself as unequal as far as quantity and quality are concerned. A postcolonial ‘cross-reading-against-the-grain’ of these different texts, which focuses on leitmotivs of violence and interculturality, allows us to interrogate critically a certain number of literary tendencies currently found in Mauritius. How do the novels negotiate the island’s topographies and temporalities? Which ethno-cultural logics and ideological dynamics can be found underlying these contemporary texts? How do the novels represent complex factors such as ethnicity, class, gender? In other words, how do the Mauritian writers reflect on – or refuse to do so – the complexity of their multicultural nation? This comparative endeavour aims at understanding the dominant characteristics of a very heterogeneous literary field and seeks to analyze to what extent the new aesthetic tendencies offer original perspectives on contemporary issues of identity in Mauritian society as well as its literary production
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Raparison, Randrianambahy Irène. "Anéantir l’Autre monstrueux : entreprise narrative et corporelle de disparition dans Moi, l’interdite d’Ananda Devi." Thèse, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/10698.
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Le récit Moi, l’interdite, se présente comme une exception parmi les œuvres d’Ananda Devi en ce qu’il n’aborde pas de front ni implicitement le thème de la dissidence féminine, comme nous pouvons l’observer dans la plus grande majorité des œuvres de l’auteure mauricienne. Au contraire, le récit s’évertue à mettre en place un processus singulier : celui d’une disparition, perpétré contre la narratrice et protagoniste principale, condamnée à être l’éternel Autre à cause de son physique monstrueux.
La présente étude se donne pour objectif d’exposer les rouages à la fois narratifs, thématiques, corporels et relationnels de cet anéantissement de l’Autre à travers une approche essentiellement narratologique. Dans un premier temps, l’entreprise de disparition est observée à travers plusieurs procédés narratifs : complexité chronologique, enchâssement de plusieurs niveaux de récit, abondance de narrataires. Dans un second temps, le thème de la disparition est questionné dans les relations aliénantes nouées par la narratrice, dont le corps difforme est le principal enjeu.
De cette volonté de destruction (re)nait et (re)meurt une narratrice, malade de folie, dont les séquelles incurables l’empêcheront de réaliser son désir d’appartenance à un Même fantasmé.The novel Moi, l’interdite, stands as an exception in Ananda Devi’s works due to the fact that it does not, directly or inherently, address the topic of feminine dissidence usually displayed in the majority of the works from the Mauritian author. The story, on the contrary, tries to set up a singular process: a disappearance affecting the narrator and main protagonist, forever condemned to be the Other because of her monstrous physical appearance. This study aims at exposing the inner machinery of the narrative, thematic, corporal and relational aspects of the destruction of this Other mainly through a narratological approach. Firstly the initiative of the disappearance can be observed through several narrative methods: chronological complexity, interlocking of several levels of discourses, abundance of narratees. Secondly the theme of disappearance is questioned in the alienating relationships developed by the main narrator, for whom her deformed body is mainly what is at stake. This will of destruction leads to the crazily sick narrator’s (re)birth and death, as the incurable after-effects will prevent her from fulfilling her dream to belong to a fantasised Same.
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Le, Bon Luc Sylvestre Yul Charles. "L'ile Maurice et Rodrigues dans l'oeuvre de J.-M.G. de Clézio: la quête d'une vérité et d'une nouvelle identité." Diss., 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2054.
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Wiehe, Elsa Marie. "Racialized Spaces In Teacher Discourse: A Critical Discourse Analysis Of Place-Based Identities In Roche Bois, Mauritius." 2013. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/712.
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This eleven-month ethnographic study puts critical discourse analysis in dialogue with postmodern conceptualizations of space and place to explore how eight educators talk about space and in the process, produce racialized spaces in Roche Bois, Mauritius. The macro-historical context of racialization of this urban marginalized community informs the discursive analysis of educators' talk at school. Drawing on theories of race that call for the non-deterministic exploration of race relations as they occur in different contexts and times (Hall, 2000; Pandian & Kosek, 2003; Essed & Goldberg, 2000), I explore the spatial racialization of children in Roche Bois as a process specific to this township and its history. Engaging with Lefebvre's three-dimensional theorization of space (Lefebre, 1991) as well as the Discourse Historical Approach developed by Wodak and colleagues (Wodak & Reisgl, 1999), I draw on the micro-macro concept of identity construction "strategy" to study 1) how meanings of race play out as an amalgam of various thematic dimensions of schooling, culture, bodies, and work that are spatialized; 2) how meanings of place perpetuate or transform long-standing historical constructions of Creole identity in Roche Bois. The findings show that repeated patterns of educators' spatial racialization produce and reproduce conceived spaces (Lefebvre, 1991) and yet my research also highlights that banal moments of lived space (Lefebvre, 1991) also exist, as ordinary disruptions of the spatial order produced by patterns of conceived space. While educator discourse for the most part negatively emplaces and racializes the children, one educator's representations of place and race both assimilates and differentiates marginal identities, encourages unity and essentialism at the same time as promotes hybridity. The analysis therefore shows that discourses of place are not totalizing and that moments of interruption can be the basis for thinking of teacher education and practice as a politics of "decolonization" and "reinhabitation" (Gruenewald, 2003). Specifically, the findings indicate the importance of reinvesting critical historical meanings into pedagogies of the local.
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Chelin, Véronique. "De l'intime au social : l'écriture de l'enfance dans le roman francophone contemporain de Maurice et de la Réunion." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/12024.
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Dans cette thèse, qui interroge la mise en écriture de l’enfance dans le roman contemporain de Maurice et de la Réunion, il s’agit d’analyser les dimensions suivantes : les modalités narratives, la construction, l’évolution et les fonctions du personnage enfant dans l’économie des textes, les rapports qu’il entretient avec les membres de sa famille et de son entourage immédiat, ainsi que la relation entre ces œuvres et leur contexte social et discursif.
Notre corpus inclut quatorze récits d’enfance fictionnels de dix écrivains et écrivaines des Mascareignes, publiés de 1987 à 2012 : du côté mauricien, Nathacha Appanah, Ananda Devi, Marie-Thérèse Humbert, Shenaz Patel, Amal Sewtohul et Carl de Souza; du côté réunionnais, Danielle Dambreville, François Dijoux, Axel Gauvin et Jean-François Samlong.
Dans ces romans, si la diversité et l’hybridité narratives, discursives et symboliques témoignent de l’imaginaire pluriel de ces sociétés hétérogènes, l’on retrouve néanmoins certaines grandes tendances, comme une écriture axée sur la mémoire du narrateur adulte ou sur l’expérience immédiate de l’enfant; des personnages enfants principalement souffrants, mal-aimés, subalternes et révoltés; ainsi que des familles et des sociétés dont le fonctionnement, les discours et les idéologies paraissent inappropriés, voire tout à fait néfastes.
Si certains de ces choix esthétiques reconduisent certaines conventions, d’autres incarnent une perspective tout à fait nouvelle, voire transgressive. Par exemple, les emprunts à d’autres formes génériques comme le conte ou le théâtre, certaines écritures tout à fait singulières, ainsi que le fréquent mélange des voix et des langages se distinguent clairement des normes établies. La maltraitance extrême des petites et jeunes filles et l’apparition de la figure de l’enfant violent semblent également inédites. Le point de vue et l’expérience de l’enfant jettent enfin un regard global, approfondi et foncièrement critique sur les sociétés mauricienne et réunionnaise du présent (surtout dans le cas mauricien) comme du passé (années 1930 à 1970), procédant ainsi à un contre-discours s’opposant aux images exotiques et bucoliques de l’île paradisiaque. Du statut de témoin à celui d’acteur, l’enfant permet à l’auteur d’aborder une série de motifs et de problématiques distinctifs de l’imaginaire et des littératures de l’océan Indien, tels que l’altérité, l’identité, l’histoire, la mémoire, etc.In this doctoral dissertation, which deals with childhood narratives in contemporary novels of Mauritius and Reunion Islands, we will examine the following dimensions: the narrative modalities, the construction, evolution and functions of the child protagonist within the texts, his relationship with different members of his family and the people around him, and the connection between these works and their social and discursive context. Our corpus includes fourteen works of fiction from ten different Mascareignes writers, published from 1987 to 2012 : from Mauritius, Nathacha Appanah, Ananda Devi, Marie-Thérèse Humbert, Shenaz Patel, Amal Sewtohul et Carl de Souza; and from Reunion, Danielle Dambreville, François Dijoux, Axel Gauvin et Jean-François Samlong. In these novels, if the narrative, discursive and symbolic diversity corresponds to the plural imaginative world of these heterogeneous societies, we can still find some significant trends, including narratives based on the adult’s memory or the child’s immediate experience; suffering, ill-treated, subaltern and rebellious child protagonists; families and societies whose general functioning, discourses and ideologies seem inappropriate, even harmful. If some of these aesthetic choices partake of certain conventions, others embody a new and even transgressive approach. For example, borrowings from other generic forms like tales, theatre, etc., particular styles of writing and the frequent mixing of different voices and languages distinguish those texts from established norms. The extreme abuse of little girls and the appearance of violent children also seem original. The child’s experience and perspective provides a global, profound and inherently critical view of present-day and past societies of Mauritius and Reunion Islands, therefore providing a counter-discourse to the exotic and bucolic images of a paradise island. From being a witness to an actor, the child allows the author to explore a series of motives and issues distinct to the imaginative world and literatures of the Indian Ocean, like otherness, identity, history, memory, etc.
Books on the topic "Mauritian literature"
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Rethinking global Mauritius: Critical essays on Mauritian literatures and cultures. La Pelouse, Trou d'Eau Douce, Île Maurice: L'Atelier d'écriture, 2013.
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Barry-Gasperment, Sonna. Je suis un vieux peau-rouge qui ne marchera jamais dans une file indienne. Trou d'Eau Douce, Ile Maurice: L'Atelier d'écriture, 2012.
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Rannoo, B. Hussein. Les ondulations des vagues. Port Louis, Mauritius[: [President's Fund for Creative Writing], 2019.
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Arjanee, Ameerah. Dodos and dragons: An anthology of Mauritian and Welsh writing. Trou d'Eau Douce, Ile Maurice: L'Atelier d'écriture, 2015.
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Khoyratty, Farhad. Mauritian impressions: An anthology of contemporary literature in English. Port Louis, Mauritius: President's Fund for Creative Writing in English, 2010.
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Abdelkader, Isselmou Ould. Le muezzin de Sarandougou. Nouakchott: Editions de la librairie 15/21, 2010.
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Noyau, René. René Noyau, l'œuvre. Port Louis (Île Maurice): Cellule Culture et Avenir, Bureau du Premier ministre, 2012.
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Ravi, Srilata. "Tropical Cyclones in Mauritian Literature." In Tracking the Literature of Tropical Weather, 25–44. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41516-1_2.
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Beebeejaun-Muslum, Zareen. "Preservation of Cultural Heritage: A Case Study of Asians in Mauritius." In Literature of Girmitiya, 127–43. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4621-9_8.
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Rimpau, Laetitia. "Le Clézio, Jean-Marie Gustave: Das Mauritius-Projekt." In Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 1–5. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05728-0_4188-1.
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Gusinge, Dhanraj. "Indentured Labour Migration from Bombay Presidency: A Study of Marathi-Speaking Community in Mauritius." In Literature of Girmitiya, 255–65. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-4621-9_14.
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Tomlinson, Maria Kathryn. "Multiculturalism and the legacy of colonialism." In From Menstruation to the Menopause, 141–80. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800348462.003.0005.
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Chapter Four examines women’s experiences of menstruation, childbirth, and the menopause, in women’s writing from Mauritius. It argues that in Mauritian literature, the female body is often framed within the tensions and inequalities that exist in the multicultural society of Mauritius. Through its portrayal of the female fertility cycle, Mauritian literature highlights the class divide between Indo-Mauritian Hindus and Creoles. Representations of the female body in Mauritian women’s writing expose the disaffection of the Creole class over whom hangs the legacy of colonialism. Issues of class, race, and poverty, are intertwined in the portrayal of Creole characters, thereby illustrating that female bodily experience can be shaped by a complex network of issues even within the same national context. Mauritian literature also considers the impact of religion and wider political issues on the female body. In addition, female corporeality is used to disrupt the touristic image of Mauritius as an island paradise. This chapter focuses on novels by Ananda Devi and Shenaz Patel.
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Szkonter-Bochniak, Anna. "La post-mémoire et le problème de l’identité nationale et individuelle présentés dans la littérature mauricienne contemporaine d’expression française." In L’art de vivre, de survivre, de revivre. Approches littéraires. Le 50e anniversaire des études romanes à l’Université de Łódź. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/8220-877-1.20.
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In the article the author analyses the influence of post-memory in the formation of national and individual identity among the inhabitants of the young Republic of Mauritius presented in contemporary Mauritian literature in French. Important and at the same time tragic historical events of Mauritius are: slavery, the arrival and labour of indentured workers from India and the tragedy of the Chagos Islanders. The author analyses some texts by Ananda Devi and Shenaz Patel in which both writers describe the impact of ancestral history on the lives of characters representing the next generation from different ethnic groups living on the island. In her analysis, the author refers to the works of Marianne Hirsch, Paul Ricoeur and Alex Mucchielli.
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Lukea-Bhiwajee, Soolakshna D., and Nitisha Purusram Dhondee. "Women Entrepreneurs in the Informal Food Production Sector During the COVID-19 Pandemic." In Sustainability and the Future of Work and Entrepreneurship for the Underserved, 169–98. IGI Global, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4322-4.ch009.
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This chapter focusses on women entrepreneurs in the informal food production sector in Mauritius. It seeks to explore the business practices of these women entrepreneurs and investigates the business and employment challenges they face, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study made use of the qualitative interpretive research paradigm, specifically using unstructured interviews, to identify the challenges and opportunities these women faced as entrepreneurs, during unprecedented times. Findings were categorized using thematic analysis and were discussed in the light of the literature review conducted. Interesting themes including support from family members, access to resources, and perception of respectable femininity and domesticity emerged for the Mauritian context. Accordingly, recommendations with respect to ensuring business continuity of women entrepreneurs in the informal food production sector in Mauritius have been made.
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"Carl de Souza’s La maison qui marchait vers le large and the Multicultural Mauritian city." In Style in African Literature, 147–62. Brill | Rodopi, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401207553_011.
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Jugnauth, Kobita Kumari. "English and Mauritian Creole: A Look at How the Vocabulary, Grammar, and Syntax of the Two Languages Make Learning Difficult." In Modern Perspectives in Language, Literature and Education Vol. 6, 19–24. Book Publisher International (a part of SCIENCEDOMAIN International), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.9734/bpi/mplle/v6/9447d.
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"Literatur." In Mauritius von Craûn, xxiii—xxviii. De Gruyter, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110935936.xxiii.
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Mohee, Romeela, Cheryl Desha, Rubina Devi Rampersad, Tomal Chadeea, Rubeena Doomun, and Kaviraj S. Sukon. "Pioneering MOOC in the Mauritius Context: Lessons Learnt and Observations: the Case of the Open University of Mauritius." In Tenth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning. Commonwealth of Learning, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56059/pcf10.4680.
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The Open University of Mauritius (OUM) pioneered the design and delivery of a MOOC, ‘Sustainable Development in Business’ in 2019, in collaboration with the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), as part of COL’s strategy for “increasing access to learners on environmental awareness”. This MOOC facilitated access to SDG materials to a global audience where participants would learn from each other: challenges, lessons and good practice. There were two intakes in 2020 and 2021 as the world was battling against Covid-19. With more than 13,000 registered participants in the four runs of the MOOC (May 2019, November 2019, June 2020, and April 2021), this highly successful MOOC has been a learning experience for the local team. This paper aims to explore the challenges and lessons learnt at the different stages: conception and design of the MOOC bearing in mind cultural diversity, marketing, managing multidisciplinary teams from different institutions, using the mooKIT platform and using feedback to review the MOOC. Being the first-ever Mauritian-led MOOC with predominantly Mauritian learners, this paper contributes to the literature on the lived experiences of the collaborators in developing and facilitating the MOOC. It is hoped that the lessons learnt will empower other institutions embarking on MOOCs to build impactful MOOCs.
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Morais, Tayane Costa. "REVISÃO DA LITERATURA SOBRE PLANTAS MEDICINAIS NO CONTEXTO DA PANDEMIA DE SARS-COV-2." In I Congresso Nacional On-line de Produtos Naturais. Revista Multidisciplinar em Saúde, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.51161/rems/2135.
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Introdução: COVID-19 é uma doença infecciosa causada pelo vírus SARS-CoV-2, que está causando crise sanitária e humanitária. Ainda não há medicamento e o modo de tratar tem sido principalmente de suporte. As comunidades científicas buscam encontrar agentes terapêuticos, como por exemplo, plantas tem sido alvo de estudos para o tratamento. Objetivo: Analisar os estudos recentes sobre plantas medicinais no contexto da pandemia de SARS-Cov-2. Materiais e Métodos: Revisão integrativa. Pergunta norteadora: quais os estudos recentes sobre as pesquisas envolvendo plantas medicinais no contexto da COVID-19? Critérios de inclusão: artigos, texto completo, recorte temporal de 2020 a junho de 2021. Idiomas: inglês, espanhol e português. Critérios de exclusão: fora da temática e não ser artigo científico. Bases de dados: BVS, SCIELO e LILACS. Descritores: Plantas Medicinais, COVID-19 e SARS-Cov-2. O instrumento para coleta de dados foi validado por Ursi (2005). Resultados: No BVS foram encontrados 526 estudos, Scielo 1 e LILACS 2. Critério de exclusão: 442 fora do tema, 15 fora do recorte temporal, 20 não eram artigo e 15 eram repetidos. Total de artigos estudados foram 36, sendo 72,2% de 2021. Foram estudos de 17 países, com 27,8% artigos da Índia e 8,34% do Brasil. As principais plantas estudadas foram: Allium sativum L.; Echinacea angustifolia D. C.; Echinacea pallida; Eucalyptus globulus Labill; Glycyrrhiza glabra L.; Mikania glomerata Spreng e Mauritia flexuosa L.. Os principais metabolitos estudados foram: Alicina, cistéina, Ácido chicórico, equinaceína, fitoesterois, Eucaliptol, hiperosídeo e Cumarinas, sesquiterpeno. Os estudos analisados demostram que essas espécies podem representar opções promissoras para o tratamento dos sintomas causados por agentes infecciosos. Um exemplo é a Mauritia flexuosa L. Ela possui 13-cis-β-caroteno, 9-cis -β-caroteno e α-caroteno e as análises da atividade anti-covid-19 se processaram utilizando métodos in silico de Docking Molecular, os resultados teóricos encorajam e permitem um direcionamento para estudos experimentais in vitro e in vivo. Conclusão: São pesquisas de revisão da literatura, estudos prospectivos, duplo cego, randomizado controlado por placebo. Auxiliam no combate a notícias falsas sobre profilaxia da COVID-19 utilizando plantas medicinais. É um campo de pesquisa importante, especialmente para o momento pandêmico, necessitando de investimento público e privado.
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CUNHA, ANTONIO JORGE GOMES DA. "ATIVIDADES IMUNOMODULADORAS DOS EXTRATOS DAS PLANTAS MEDICINAIS MAURITIA FLEXUOSA L. E CARYOCAR VILLOSUM." In II Congresso Brasileiro de Imunologia On-line. Revista Multidisciplinar em Saúde, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.51161/ii-conbrai/6869.
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Introdução: As plantas medicinais carregam grande potencial por achados farmacológicos. Estas são frequentemente destacadas por seu perfil para atividades antimicóticas, antibacterianas e antiparasitárias. Há, também, em menor escala, a busca por princípios ativos em fitoterápicos que modulem as respostas imunológicas, cujo princípio seja a recuperação da homeostase. Objetivo: Realizar levantamento na literatura das espécies naturais do bioma amazônico Mauritia Flexuosa L. e Caryocar villosum, quanto suas atividades imunomoduladoras e seus possíveis mecanismos. Metodologia: Revisão integrativa da literatura, de caráter exploratório, abrangendo estudos experimentais in vivo e monografias, através dos descritores DeCS/MeSH: \"Imunomodulador\" e “extratos vegetais\" com relação aos nomes científicos, por meio de buscas nas bases PubMED e Scielo. Resultados: Os agentes imunoestimulantes atuam através de vários mecanismos do sistema imune. O extrato de Piquiá (Caryocar brasiliense) contém em sua composição química alto teor de carotenoides, demonstrado em ensaio in vivo, redução de linfócitos T citotóxicos nos órgãos linfoides e redução da IL-17, no plasma. A planta promove uma redução de mediadores pró-inflamatórios pela ação dos carotenoides similares a vitamina E. O Buriti (Mauritia Flexuosa L.) aumentou a taxa de fagocitose celular em E. Escherichia coli, revelando sua capacidade imunomoduladora estar relacionada à grande presença do ácido palmítico na sua composição. Esse ácido graxo atua no aumento da produção de IL-1β e diminuição da IL-10, e nas infecções, contribui para uma menor taxa no recrutamento de neutrófilos durante a fase aguda, e grande aumento de células mononucleares durante a fase tardia. Conclusão: As atividades imunomoduladoras estão vinculadas à compostos com grande potencial antioxidante e anti-inflamatório, como a presença de carotenoides e ácidos graxos monoinsaturados. Estas substâncias tem impacto no sistema imune inato, interferindo com a diminuição da produção de citocinas, e por estarem mais relacionadas à uma resposta sem memória, o consumo regular desses produtos como nutracêuticos devem ser avaliados quanto aos riscos de toxidade.
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Carvalho, Braulio Fernandes de, Gustavo Nogueira Barreto, and Antônio Sérgio Farias Castro. "ÁRVORES NATIVAS RECOMENDADAS PARA COMPOSIÇÃO URBANA EM PARNAÍBA-PI." In I Congresso Brasileiro On-line de Estudos Ecológicos. Revista Multidisciplinar de Educação e Meio Ambiente, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.51189/rema/2696.
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Introdução: O município de Parnaíba-PI encontra-se em área ecotonal de Caatinga e Cerrado, sob influência pré-Amazônica e litorânea. Possui uma variedade geográfica com diversas fitofisionomias, como dunas, restingas, tabuleiros litorâneos inundáveis ou drenados, praias e manguezais. Apesar da rica biodiversidade, é comum encontrar árvores exóticas em detrimento de espécies nativas. Objetivos: Propor uma lista de palmeiras e árvores nativas adequadas para plantio em Parnaíba-PI. Material e métodos: Consultas à literatura, a bancos de dados eletrônicos (IPNI e REFLORA) e visitas de campo a ecossistemas diversos do Piauí e Ceará. Resultados: Xixá (Sterculia striata), Pau-d’arco-roxo (Handroanthus impetiginosus), Pau-d’arco-amarelo (Handroanthus ochraceus), Caraúba (Tabebuia aurea), Caroba (Jacaranda brasiliana), Tamboril (Enterolobium contortisiliquum), Sucupira-preta (Bowdichia virgilioides), Barriguda (Ceiba glaziovii), Angico (Anadenanthera colubrina), Fava-d’anta (Dimorphandra gardneriana), Tingui (Magonia pubescens), Cedro (Cedrela odorata), Cagaita (Eugenia dysenterica), Umburana-de-cambão (Commiphora leptophloeos), Umburana-de-cheiro (Amburana cearensis), Cajazeira (Spondias mombin),) Umbuzeiro (Spondias tuberosa), Sapucaia (Lecythis pisonis), Sapucaí (Lecythis lurida), Faveira (Parkia platycephala), Angico-branco (Albizia niopoides), Mororó (Bauhinia subclavata), Catingueira (Cenostigma pyramidale), Pitombeira (Talisia esculenta), Fígado-de-galinha (Martiodendron mediterraneum), Catingueiro (Chamaecrista eitenorum), Sambaíba (Curatella americana), Pau-marfim (Agonandra brasiliensis), Cajueiro (Anacardium occidentale), Oitizeiro (Moquilea tomentosa), Caneleiro (Cenostigma macrophyllum), Jenipapo (Genipa americana), Carnaúba (Copernicia prunifera), Coco-babão (Syagrus cearensis), Garampara (Dipteryx lacunifera), Macaúba (Acrocomia aculeata), Gameleira (Ficus pakkensis), Juazeiro (Sarcomphalus joazeiro), Janaguba (Himatanthus drasticus), Cauaçu (Coccoloba latifolia), Jatobá (Hymenaea courbaril), Miolo-roxo (Peltogyne confertiflora), Pau-d’óleo (Copaifera martii), Buritizeiro (Mauritia flexuosa), Trapiá (Crateva tapia), Torém (Cecropia palmata), Ingazeiro (Inga vera), Mangue-vermelho (Rhizophora mangle), Mangue-preto (Avicennia germinans), Mangue-de-botão (Conocarpus erectus), Tucum (Astrocaryum vulgare), Mangaba (Hancornia speciosa), Gonçalo-alves (Astronium fraxinifolium), Catanduva (Pityrocarpa moniliformis), Babaçu (Attalea speciosa), Maçaranduba (Manilkara cavalcantei), Jucá (Libidibia ferrea), Tatajuba (Maclura tinctoria), Pereiro (Aspidosperma pyrifolium), Puçá (Mouriri pusa) e Angelim (Andira fraxinifolia). Conclusão: Deve-se priorizar o uso de múltiplas espécies nativas, garantindo diversidade biológica e maximizando os serviços ambientais, como controle erosivo, aprisionamento de carbono, percolação de água pluvial, sombreamento, amortização de marés e produção de alimentos e de abrigos para fauna. Devem-se considerar as especificidades do local de plantio, de modo a incluir espécies adequadas às condições edáficas, e cujas características não interfiram na locomoção de veículos e pedestres, causem danos à rede elétrica ou destruam calçadas.