VOLUME 1(1) • 2011
Capitales et Métropoles du Machrek et du Maghreb. Pour une imagerie culturelle des villes en guerre
ABSTRACT. Being registered in full of colonialism, postcolonialism, or the American Expeditionary Force, the representation of the place (and city) in the North African Francophone literature and Middle Eastern becomes the issue of tension between political reality, nationalism and pluralism. We wil..
De l’autre côté de la souffrance
ABSTRACT. Numerous are the publications that have shaken the forgetting of memories through hard and truthful testimonies which relate prison experiments in Moroccan prisons during the dark period of Moroccan history called the “lead years.” However, a variable has been seriously overlooked in this ..
Écrivaines francophones du Maghreb: émergence d’un discours féministe
ABSTRACT. Since its inception, Francophone literature of the Maghreb has become a referent of the postcolonial discourse beyond the boundaries of the Francophonie. As for the writers, their journey, similar to that of male writers, reflecting the hope and disappointment post-independence that the di..
Image(s) de la femme marocaine dans l’ecriture viatique feminine française au debut du xxeme siecle
ABSTRACT. Morocco appears in French literary history at about the same time it enters the political history of France. The-first-trip-to-Morroco relations, male of course, are not necessarily reflected in the published literature in bookstores. They appear a little later in print. First, they are su..
A View of Ahlam Mustaganemi’s Memory of the Flesh
ABSTRACT. The present paper is an attempt to explore the thematic and technical achievement of the contemporary Algerian novelist (b. 1953) as seen in her influential novel, Memory of the Flesh (1993). Although there are casual references to her other novels, the main emphasis of this paper is laid ..
The “Headscarf Affairs”: French Universalism Put to the Test
ABSTRACT. This paper explores how the Muslim veil, a highly connoted gender marker and an international symbol of a certain form of womanhood, has called into question the foundations of French “laicité” or universalism, especially as concerns sex and gender. Over the past twenty years, rarely has t..
Power, Resistance, and the Writings of Female Illegitimacy: Eva Peron, Clare Boothe Luce, and Flora Tristan
ABSTRACT. Several critics have discussed victim dynamics in the stories of illegitimate women writers in Western cultures, but a significant group of extraordinarily powerful women (who were also writers) have been illegitimate. History offers few examples of women from any parentage who have gained..
Piety, Innocence, and Irishness in Alice McDermott’s Irish-American Novels
ABSTRACT. Alice McDermott’s novels of Irish American experience, At Weddings and Wakes and Charming Billy, establish death, loss, and innocence as both foreground and background for their characters. Innocence is associated in Roman Catholic and other theologies with childhood and lack of sexual kno..
‘Flee, Avoid, Ignore, Suppress’: Physical and Socio-moral Disgust in Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
ABSTRACT. Ever since 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days earned the Palme d’or at the Cannes Film Festival in May of 2007, film critics around the world have talked about the ‘Romanian Miracle’ – namely, the unlikely birth of a new cinematic wave coming from a former communist country in the Balkans (“The ..
Faces of Jane Eyre
ABSTRACT. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre is a nineteenth-century text which has inspired writers, filmmakers and audiences throughout the ages, as witnessed by the number of revisions which continue to be launched. The following paper examines four of the foremost cinematic representations. Specifical..
An Essay on British Comedy and Gender Discourses
ABSTRACT. In this paper I offer a survey of British mainstream comedy’s responses to shifts in gender discourses from the 1940s to the end of the twentieth century. An examination of the performances of mainly male comics recorded for television or radio reveals an engagement with gender discourses ..
Semiramis of Ionescoland: Facets of Womanhood and Gender Relations in Eugen Ionesco’s The Chairs
ABSTRACT. Traditionally, a vast majority of Ionesco’s scholars and critics focus on such topics as his depiction of the human condition, his political statements, his metaphysical approach of intellectual exile, and his philosophy of death. Since inception, the “ontological void” of Ionesco’s litera..