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Bourse, Alexandra. "Le personnage métis, une figure hybride ? Identité sexuelle et identité raciale dans la littérature des Amériques." Thesis, Paris 4, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA040257.
Full textThe theory of intersectionnality - resulting from « Black feminism » - is a precious concept to analyze the domination experienced by the « métis » characters as intersectionnal experiments in which power struggles based on race, sex and class are inextricably mixed. Incarnating interracial relations perceived as essentially violent the mestizo/mulatto characters are interpreted by a society which tries to subsume them into preset racial and sexual categories. This crispation of the thought is what we are interested in.Key words: postcolonial studies; genre/gender; sexualities; queer theory; mestizaje/ miscegenation; identity; intersectional analysis
El, Majdoubi Ilham. "Désir, genre et identités dans les premières œuvres de Tennessee Williams." Toulouse 2, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007TOU20018.
Full textThe theatre of Tennessee Williams covering the period from 1940-1960, most significantly the plays written and produced under McCarthyism, arouses interest through its suggestive force. Desire and sexuality, considered as largely taboo subjects for the stage, are only obliquely and allusively approached. Their potentiality remains nevertheless subversive. Williams, a committed but not sectarian writer, gives voice to those who are voiceless in the normative and binary structured heteropatriarcal society. He raises very disturbing questions about gender (sexually determined social relations) in his works, where the boundaries between masculinity and femininity, between homosexuality and heterosexuality, are not always clear-cut. Far from reasserting sex/gender differences, the playwright defends a rather hybrid view of identity in which subjects appear as a sum of the different identities they hold. His creation offers a wide range of possible identifications and introduces the queer idea claiming that identity is a socially and culturally constructed site of multiplicity and permanent becoming
Gray, Sadran Jane. "A small country with blurry boundaries : genre et identités sexuelles dans la littérature écossaise contemporaine." Grenoble 3, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005GRE39041.
Full textHung, Shiau-Ting. "Identité en suspens et Métamorphose dans Garçons de cristal de Bai Xian-Yong, Espèces de Ying Chen et Middlesex de Jeffrey Eugenides." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA168.
Full textThe subject of this thesis is the question of identity in the following novels: Bai Xian-Yong’s Cristal Boys, Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex, and Ying Chen’s Espèces. This research interrogates the opposition between the initial identity and that in rupture concerning the familial, social, and political norm in three different contexts. Such opposition seems to be the place proper to the identity in suspense and constitutes the issues about metamorphosis. What are the factors constraining the characters to metamorphosis and exile? How does the connection to self confront the crisis of identity, is it evoked in these novels in the first-person narrative?In these three novels, the homosexuality, the hermaphrodisme, and the transformation to animal provoke the suspense of identity and the exile of the characters. The effective or metaphoric metamorphosis proves the sense of the identity, the connection of the self and the other. Meanwhile, the metamorphosis establishes the bridges upon which the characters in the three novels could join each other to varying extents
Gonneaud, Justine. "L'androgyne dans la littérature britannique contemporaine : évolution et métamorphoses d'une figure." Thesis, Montpellier 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013MON30048.
Full textThis study tackles the aesthetics, politics and ethics of androgyny, focusing on five novels of contemporary British writers: Brigid Brophy’s In Transit, Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve, Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body, Peter Ackroyd’s Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem and Will Self’s Cock and Bull. The first part examines the aestheticdimension of androgyny, a myth of metamorphic value that destabilizes notions of space, time, bodily constraints and gendered identity. The second part analyses the interplay between the grotesque and hybrid dimensions of the hermaphroditic body in reclaiming the monstrous as a means to renegotiate identity in terms of a multiplicity and to redefine the relationship of the individual to Otherness. This finally allows to examine the political and ethical values ofthe hermaphrodite that articulates the non-foundational Levinasian ethics of alterity with the more practical approach to otherness of the ethics of care
Allen-Terry, Sherman Virginia. "Diaspora et déplacement : L’évocation des traditions, des origines et de l’identité dans les mémoires culinaires, un genre littéraire émergent." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes, 2020. https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-02861616.
Full textBearing semantic elements of family myths and feminine discourse, culinary memoirs invite questions about their literary pertinence as a contemporary genre. This study considers their narrational ambitions, their poetic quality, the genre(s) from which they emerge, and also that which they define. We hypothesise that they have a literary relevance at the intersection of several genres. The examination of an extensive corpus allows us to observe its diversity and intertextuality, as well as the historical perspective of precursory texts, offering a new reading of earlier works.Rooted in autobiography and food writing, with traits of travel literature, culinary memoirs are a hybrid genre that explores identity, the quest for which is often motivated by the diasporic loss of homelands, or family trauma. We analyse the narrative and the emerging genre to understand how it represents self-writing and food within the travel narrative genre. As well as weaving culinary traditions with recipes, memoirs reveal a spiritual dimension, synonymous with an inward journey. Appraising culinary memoirs from the perspective of foodways, as culturally-defined consumption, and travel literature, elucidates the central questions of identity and origins within the context of inner and outward displacement.The genre’s multiple paradoxes are symptomatic of its resourcefulness, drawing from diverse elements to create an overarching food narrative, as a corpus of recipes that embodies a universal truth, to which nourishment, both physical and symbolic, holds the key
Larrieu, Gérald. "Genre et transgression dans trois romans de Manuel Puig : La traición de Rita Hayworth (1968), The Buenos Aires affair (1973) et El beso de la mujer araña (1976)." Paris 4, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA040137.
Full textCan the psychosexual gender provide texts with a distinctive generic character? This work sets out to move from a sexual identity to a textual identity by studying the double transgression of the writer and of his works. The idea of gender (género in Spanish) cannot be separated from the pattern it is woven into with specific ties starting from the symptom leading to Manuel Puig's distinctive artistic creation. The remarkable feat of this “woman's voice” (phrase coined by Borges) is to interweave the criticism of the sign which transgresses -by its heterogeneousness and its creative act of enjoyment (not of reproduction)- the androcentered sociocultural order to be found in the Bourgeois novel with the "Name-of- the-Father"; the political censorship aimed at the three novels analysed herein: La traición de Rita Hayworth, The Buenos Aires Affair and El beso de la mujer araña points to it
Martinek, Claudia. "Les identités de genre dans la littérature camerounaise et française contemporaine : Images du "Soi", images de l'"Autre"." Cergy-Pontoise, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004CERG0226.
Full textAlmost half a century after the official decolonization of the largest part of Africa, the number of representations of Africa and Africans is increasing in Europe today. Along with other forms of representation, African literature is becoming more and more popular among European readers. What are the reasons for this renewal of interest? This thesis investigates the literary images of Africans which are transmitted via contemporary African literature: How do the characters presented by African writers relate to the European “Self” as it is depicted in contemporary European literature? From a European point of view, is the “Other” really so different? Focusing on gender identities presented by Cameroonian and French novelists, our analysis shows that the images of the “Self” and of the “Other” overlap in gender-related issues. Moreover, all characters suffer from a painful discontent and engage in actual quests in order to fight it. In a progressively “globalized” world, French readers seem to recognize some of their own preoccupations in Cameroonian literature, which is a possible explanation for the increasing success of African literature in Europe today. The novels analyzed are: Philomène M. Bassek, La tache de sang (1990) ; Calixthe Beyala, Tu t'appelleras Tanga (1988), Maman a un amant (1993) ; Yodi Karone, À la recherche du cannibale amour (1988) ; Evelyne Mpoudi Ngolle, Sous la cendre le feu (1990) ; Patrice Nganang, La promesse des fleurs (1997) ; Simon Njami, African Gigolo (1989) ; Frédéric Beigbeder, Vacances dans le coma (1994) ; Marie Darrieussecq, Truismes (1996) ; Virginie Despentes, Baise-moi (1994), Les Jolies Choses (1998) ; Michel Houellebecq, Plateforme (2001)
Bisinger, Lena. "Rencontre interculturelle dans le roman franco-chinois. Invitation au voyage d'un genre émergent." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCA092.
Full textIntercultural relations between China and the Occident have become a vital phenomenon of our age. They range from dealings in major areas of economy and politics to interactions in the visual arts, literature and philosophy. Since the Opening of China during the 1980s, France, in particular, has become the primary destination for dissident intellectuals and students of Chinese origin, a fact which has facilitated a new direct exchange of ideas. This thesis deals with the interculturalism of those very intellectuals in the literary context of the Franco-Chinese novel, hence addressing a key area of this new interculturalism: the authors generate a substantial cultural contact by publishing their works in France, thus linking their Chinese world of thoughts to French culture.The methodological approach is based on the notion of culture as an entity undergoing permanent development caused by human beings who are perceived as participants in the process. Defining culture as ‘text’, Clifford Geertz assigns textual status to all cultural phenomena, thereby emphasizing the interpretative nature of culture as a network of practices and discourses being permanently changed and refined. Literary texts are on the one hand partial elements of this network themselves; on the other hand, they also participate in the productive process by representing and interpreting the bigger text of culture. The thesis accounts for those properties of literary texts by first investigating them as results of a cultural development and subsequently comprehending them as a form of intercultural representation and interpretation.The text corpus of the analysis has been built on the basis of the works of five exemplary writers: François Cheng, Gao Xingjian, Dai Sijie, Ya Ding and Shan Sa. Showing particular pertinence with respect to the subject matter, their intercultural dimension is shaped by three major contextual phenomena: the shared memory of China, the exile experience and the confrontation with the French world of publishing
Guiheneuf, Lucie. "Identité, espace, écriture dans les récits autobiographiques et les fictions de Bryher." Phd thesis, Université Paris-Sorbonne - Paris IV, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00984633.
Full textDumont, Catherine. "Du masculin au féminin: identités trans et intersexuelle dans quatre œuvres littéraires et cinématographiques contemporaines (Canada, 1987- 2012)." Mémoire, Université de Sherbrooke, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11143/7555.
Full textRemes, Sirkka. "Métamorphoses des genres : l'oeuvre littéraire de Gilles Zenou." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030157.
Full textThe author and philosopher Gilles Zenou (1957-1989), born in a Jewish Moroccan family and emigrated in France, treats in his texts the problematic of identity and otherness. In this study, the focus is in his literary production that includes three novels and two tale collections. However, the philosophical texts of the author, especially his two doctor’s theses, are used as a support in analysing his fictional texts. The term “genre” is used assuming its polysemy in the French language; the method of analysis associates the study of the interaction between different literary genres to the gender studies. In the work of Zenou, the research of beauty goes together with a spiritual and ethical research. The analysis of the metamorphoses of genre and gender shows how the writing resists and contours the power relationships by transforming itself
Marques, Karina Carvalho de Matos. "De l'écriture personnelle à l'écriture de l'histoire : questions d'identité dans l'oeuvre d'Ilse Losa et de Samuel Rawet." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030103.
Full textOur compared study deals with the literary work of Ilse Losa (1913-2006), a German exiled in Portugal, and Samuel Rawet (1929-1984), a Polish immigrant in Brazil, which have adopted Portuguese as writing language. Having arrived in these lusophone countries a few years before the declaration of the Second World War, both share a jewish origin which is expressed in their characters in the form of conflicts between memory and forgetfulness, communitarianism and integration, tradition and cultural performativity. Moreover, their conditions of women and homosexual acted as an inspiration for the construction of a work opposing gender duality in a context of oppression in these host countries : The Salazarist New State (1933-1974) and the military dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985). This way, through their personal writings in which the jewish identity and the gender identity are key elements, we can consider the exclusion in a broader way. These authors give us a picture of the brazilian and portuguese societies between the end of the 30’s and beginning of the 80’s, highlighting the power relations between elites and masses. During a period in which the national identity is being built on the basis of the myth of the great empire in Portugal and of multiculturalism in Brazil, Ilse Losa and Samuel Rawet show that the nation is always a narrative
Champagnat, Pauline. "Littérature et identités minorisées dans les œuvres de Conceição Evaristo (Brésil) et Paulina Chiziane (Mozambique)." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019REN20042.
Full textThe aim of this thesis is to analyse the connection between literature and the portrayal of ethnic minorities based on the novels of Ponciá Vicêncio (2003) and Becos da memória, (2006) from Conceição Evaristo, and Niketche : uma história de poligamia (2002), and O Alegre Canto da Perdiz, (2008) from Paulina Chiziane.The research is underpinned by a decolonial approach and a scientific comparison that allows an examination beyond national boundaries, as it draws a parallel between backgrounds that influence the evolution of the work of these authors. These works seek to give a voice to historically silenced communities by a hegemonic power and shed light on minority cultural identities related to post-colonialism, racism, gender, orality, the safeguarding of “underground memories” (Pollak, 1993), and the “position of speech” (Ribeiro, 2019). These works examine the emergence of ethnic minority identities and the contribution of literature therein, referencing the narratives of black women in societies evolving from slavery and colonisation. This thesis highlights the ability of literature to contribute to the empowerment of minorities and challenge sexist and racial bias in modern society
Doussot, Audrey. "A la croisée des genres : masculin et féminin dans la littérature et l'iconographie féériques victoriennes et édouardiennes." Thesis, Dijon, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011DIJOL028.
Full textUnder the reign of Victoria, the fairy genre, after many years of banishment, is back on the literary scene and introduced as a major source of inspiration for the visual arts. Artists and authors create texts and pictures that turn the depiction of a fantasy world disregarding current cultural and social norms into an opportunity for the exploration of the ideals, anxieties and contradictions of the time. Original texts written for the adult and juvenile readerships keep the age-old tradition of the fairy tale alive, renewing its themes and representations in accordance with the current British tastes. Simultaneously, paintings and illustrations, at a time when pictures take an increasingly prominent place in everyday life and culture, provide the fairy genre with a specific iconography. At the crossroads of text and picture, illustrated literature goes through an unprecedented phase of popularity marked by two periods of golden age, in the 1860s and the 1890s. With its hybrid form, its inspiration derived from the social context and its privileged association with the feminine, the nineteenth-century and early twentieth century illustrated fairy literature is a cultural form most appropriate for the analysis of text/image relationships as well as the gender notions of the feminine and the masculine. Sexuality – the greatest taboo of the period – and gender matters are indeed key-topics at that time and they are all the more relevant in the fairy genre since, not only does it inspire both male and female creators, but, being a minor genre, it is traditionally and symbolically considered to be feminine. And so is illustration, for the same reason. In many respects, Victorian and Edwardian fairy creation is then at the crossroads of a number of notions, both complementary and antagonistic : masculine/feminine, text/image, painting/illustration, art/craftsmanship, high culture/low culture, adulthood/childhood, conformism/subversion, tradition/innovation…. Structured around the idea of an ‘in-between’ status, the present study shall therefore examine the field of literary and pictorial fairy creation as a space in which all these ideas meet through the analysis of fairy paintings, texts and illustrated books. Gender and fairy genre shall be considered jointly as an attempt to define and explore their relationships during the Victorian and Edwardian eras
Cron, Adélaïde. "Mémoires féminins de la fin du XVIIe siècle à la période révolutionnaire : enquête sur la constitution d'un genre et d'une identité." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030065.
Full textStarting in the 1670s and throughout the 18th century, memoirs written by women, more so than those written by men, undergo important mutations. After the turmoil of the Fronde, as the political role of women tends to decline, they emphasize private life but also the personal itinerary of women who are thus creating an original form centred on the definition of their identity: these works develop a true autobiographic dimension. The influence and mediation of the memoir-novel play a crucial part in this women-led transformation of the memoirist genre, leading to the original creation of hybrid texts halfway between fiction and diction. But these texts are not mere imitations of the memoir-novel: by borrowing from diverse influences and traditions, women express their wish to write in an oblique manner, without labelling themselves as “learned ladies” or “women authors”. They also construct new representations of the female identity, both submissive and critical, most of the time indirectly, of the female roles which were deemed traditional at the time. The thesis examines the social profiles of this new kind of memoirists, as well as the formal and enunciative complexity of their texts, and the ambiguous representations of women and their personal identity which they develop
Wilson, Anna. "Constructions et déconstructions du sujet féminin : l'ambivalence des relations entre femmes en situation d'oppression dans les romans d'Assia Djebar et de Toni Morrison." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024SORUL121.
Full textThis thesis focuses on the relational dynamic between female characters trapped in patterns of domination and oppression in the literary work of Assia Djebar and Toni Morrison, and its part in their construction or deconstruction as subjects in the face of this oppression. Drawing primarily from eight works from the two writers - La Soif, Les Impatients, Ombre sultane and La Femme sans sépulture by Djebar and Sula, Beloved, Love and A Mercy by Morrison - this study takes as its focal point subjugated Algerian and African-American women situated in duos or trios. Starting from the observation that situations of ethnoracial, socioeconomic and gender oppression complicate the advent of these subaltern women to subject status, this work analyzes female relationships in their ambivalence: by investigating the modalities of imitation and counter-imitation at work, it sets out to interrogate the role of connections between women as much in the (de)construction of individual identity and subjectivity as in the possibility of collective action between women in order to free themselves from domination. Through an examination of their manifestations and effects, this thesis explores relationships between women as a factor in both the edification and neutralization of identity, in the sense that they can empower women to individuate as singular, autonomous subjects, or conversely, they can destroy their individuality by relegating them to undifferentiated, disempowered non-beings. In response to this authorial scripting of oppression, the aim of this study is to determine the extent to which connections between women, in terms of their impact on identity and subjectivity, either undo or reinforce the subjugation and social invisibility of subaltern women in these narratives
Cabaloue, Sophie. "Identités, sexualités, écritures dans les autofictions de la diaspora cubaine à New York : Sonia Rivera-Valdés et Jacqueline Herranz-Brooks." Thesis, Limoges, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LIMO0104/document.
Full textMy work deals with the building of identity through the writing of women writers from the Cuban Diaspora in New York. It focuses on autofictions by Sonia Rivera-Valdés and Jacqueline Herranz-Brooks. These contemporary writers, - who have a knack for defining the lesbian subject through the use of eroticism and desire- also manage to unsettle national, cultural and sexual identities by putting forward characters who develop out of the norm, away from the political, social and sexual system. These writers give a new definition to Cuban identity from an intimate perspective, which is far from the politicized image we know. My literary and socio-historical approach sheds light on the mechanisms of the construction of the identities of these women writers, considering in particular the context of production of their works. The numerous field surveys on the writers and guarantors of the Cuban institution made it possible for me to identify the literary and socio-historical context in which the women writers developed and produced their works. Through their literary careers, Sonia Rivera-Valdés and Jacqueline Herranz-Brooks describe themselves as lesbian writers living in a fragmented geographical space. They succeed in fictionalizing their memories in order to tell their lives. The text is both testimony – a narrative describing a socio-historical situation, being a lesbian in Cuba, the difficult integration of the migrants in New York- and fiction, enabling them to project their ideals. It is therefore in between testimony and reconstruction of the past anchored in the present that the women writers build a fragmented space between Cuba and New-York. Writing, as well as photography for Herranz-Brooks, seen as creation, made it possible for them to give life again to their past experiences so as to build themselves an identity as writers and as lesbian, migrant, Cuban women from the Diaspora
González, José. "Performatividad de la ficción en la novela argentina contemporánea : relaciones de género en Griselda Gambaro, Sylvia Molloy, Perla Suez." Thesis, Toulouse 2, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016TOU20127/document.
Full textThe concept of performativity has been developed by different approaches, ranging from speech act theory (J. L. Austin) to anthropological studies (Victor Turner), and has been considered an epistemological model known as “performative turn”. The performative theory has turned into an analytical category that aims to investigate cultural phenomena as a representation of acts and discourses, reaching its peak by gender studies as created by Judith Butler and the Performance Studies as a tool to analyze dramatic performances. However, its application to narrative phenomena has been scarce and there hardly exists any perspectives that would allow to consider gender as a performance within a novel.Based on the theory of gender performativity (Butler) and drama performance as modifiers of spectators’ realities, the present work aims in the first place to fuse both concepts and establish an epistemological framework that allows the analysis of gender performances in narrative fiction. Among these concepts the anti-essentialist ones by Butler about sex and gender, taboo, gender libretos and parody, stand out, as well as the elements of every performative act as depicted by Erika Fischer-Lichte in her theory on performance: unpredictability, perception and ambivalence.A corpus of contemporary Argentine literature was used to put into practice this theory. It consists of the novels Ganarse la muerte by Griselda Gambaro, El común olvido by Sylvia Molloy and “Letargo” by Perla Suez. The authors of these texts make use of a wide range of narrative strategies whose analysis will prove how gender is performed in novels
La performatividad ha sido desarrollada desde la teoría de los actos de habla (J. L. Austin) hasta los estudios antropológicos (Victor Turner) hasta considerarse un modelo epistemológico conocido como giro performativo. La teoría performativa se convirtió en una categoría de análisis que pretendía estudiar los fenómenos culturales como una representación de actos y discursos, cuyo desarrollo alcanzó su cima con los estudios de género de la mano de Judith Butler y con los estudios performativos (Performance studies) como una herramienta capaz de estudiar las performances teatrales. Sin embargo, su aplicación en los fenómenos narrativos ha sido escasa y apenas se ha desarrollado un enfoque que permita contemplar el género como performance en la novela.Partiendo de la teoría de la performatividad del género (Butler) y de las performances teatrales como modificadoras de las realidades de lxs espetadorxs, este trabajo pretende, en primer lugar, aunar ambos conceptos y establecer un marco epistemológico que permita analizar la performatividad del género en la ficción narrativa. Entre ellos destacan los conceptos antiesencialistas de Butler sobre el sexo y género, el tabú, los libretos de género y la parodia, así como los elementos propios de todo acto performativo descritos por Erika Fischer-Lichte en su teoría de la performance: la imprevisibilidad, percepción y ambivalencia.Para poner en práctica esta teoría se ha utilizado un corpus de literatura contemporánea argentina compuesto por las novelas Ganarse la muerte de Griselda Gambaro, El común olvido de Sylvia Molloy y “Letargo” de Perla Suez. Las autoras de estos textos hacen uso de una diversidad de estrategias narrativas a través de las cuales se pretende demostrar cómo se performa el género en la novela, prestando especial atención al personaje
Şerbu, Lavinia. "L'image de l'Orient dans l'oeuvre de la princesse Bibesco." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM3096.
Full textPrincess Marthe Bibesco’s Orient enfolds many facets and it rises above the spatial dimension. In our research, we have especially centred round the “historical” or the “inherited” Orient, identified in her memoirs La Nymphe Europe. Livre I. Mes vies antérieures , and the “created” Orient (at Mogosoaia Palace, her Romanian residence). The second part of the research paper emphasizes the “experienced”/ “real” Orient as space narrated in her notes on travelling where the Princess proved to be a subjective observer and rarely a critic. At last, the Orient appears as “preserved” in the Romanian folklore. The latter represents on one hand, the return to origins and on the other hand, it becomes the exotic element for the foreign audience. The vocation for this culture is constantly found in Bibesco’s work and exploited in many different ways. This concept will never have a disparaging sense, on the contrary. Marthe Bibesco is in search of legend, charm, oriental mirage. For her the term “Orient” does not suggest closed space, but authentic territory, capable of offering to the explorer the most spectacular performance
Pellerin, Pierre-Antoine. "La performance autobiographique et les masques du masculin dans la légende de Duluoz de Jack Kerouac (1947-1965)." Thesis, Paris 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA030167.
Full textThe first-person novels which make up the Duluoz Legend, the autobiographical cycle written by Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), are often analyzed in the light of what is known of their author’s private life or of the mythology that surrounds Beat Generation writers. Informed by performative approaches to the genre of autobiography and to the masculine gender as well as by recent historiographical research on masculinity and masculine sexuality during the Cold War period, this thesis seeks to deconstruct the ethos of confessional spontaneity and of heroic manliness that surrounds Kerouac’s writings. His narrative of the self are not faithful reflections of the “I” or factual accounts of the author’s own life, but a public staging of male authorial identity, a theatre of identity in words and actions. This playful masquerade sustains a narrative strategy that aims at constructing an ideal vision of oneself as a man and as a writer and shall be read in the perspective of his wish to revitalize American literature and masculinity which he feared to be in decline. Yet, these acts of cross-dressing of the authorial persona also testify to the powerful sway of anti-homosexual paranoia over the 1950s literary output and show the trouble that undermines this performance of masculinity which constantly threatens to reveal the tears, the silences and the contradictions that it tries so hard to mask
Johnson, Hannah Victoria. ""Sed uiros non diligit" : a Discourse of ‘Lesbian' Desire in the Devotional Writings of Hildegard von Bingen and Mechthild von Magdeburg (12th-13th century)." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024SORUL132.
Full textThe increasing interest in queer medieval studies makes manifest the academic and popular inclinations to recognise the validity and necessity of reading and understanding ‘queer' desires in the medieval past. In this thesis, I ask if there is some aspect of the medieval source material which is revelatory of experiences at once completely anchored in the historical context and legible as ‘lesbian' from a modern perspective. Specifically, this project will be interested in interrogating whether we can legitimately interpret expressions of desire in texts written by medieval women as a discourse of ‘lesbian' eroticism. As such, I take Hildegard von Bingen's (1098-1179) Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum (Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations) and Mechthild von Magdeburg's (c. 1208-1282) Ein vliessendes lieht der gotheit (The Flowing Light of the Godhead) as my primary corpus. Hildegard is already frequently viewed as a ‘lesbian' figure in the popular cultural imaginary, while Mechthild is overwhelmingly preoccupied with the pursuit and embrace of minne (‘Lady Love', f.), the feminine manifestation of the divine. Using an interdisciplinary approach in cognitive linguistics and queer theory, I examine the textual articulation of embodiment, orientation, and eroticism both within the nexus of each individual text and as part of a larger literary network. The aim is to bring queer theory - which has created and is still creating a lexicon for analysing lesbian eroticism - into dialogue with the historical and cultural context of the Middle Ages, through an in-depth analysis of the language employed and the linguistic forms created by these mystics, using the analytic frameworks of cognitive linguistics and sensory linguistics. Without denying the spiritual nature of Hildegard and Mechthild's mystical experiences, this project will explore the discourse of erotic feelings in the high Middle Ages. The aim is to observe the creation of such a discourse within a mystical discourse whose primary goal is to speak the unspeakable, make visible the invisible. In effecting lexico-semantic analyses of Hildegard and Mechthild's texts, I argue that the lexical and metaphorical networks employed by the mystics reveal devotional discourse as a place where we might find implicit expressions of medieval ‘lesbian' desire within the sociocultural framework of the twelfth and thirteenth century
Piccione, Caterina. "Être un autre : l'idée de personnage dans l’oeuvre de Luigi Pirandello, de Carmelo Bene et du Teatro delle Albe." Thesis, Tours, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019TOUR2001.
Full textThe philosophy of character looks at the identity through the mirror of the alterity. Considering the history of the ideas of vision, presence, representation and mimesis, it is possible to describe the expenence as a theatre. The world’s theatre concerns, at the same time, the Dionysian “one”, complete ecstatic fusion, and the Apollonian “two”, consciousness of the representation.“Being someone else” is an expression that aims to resume the central role of characters in the subjectivity’s formation. Since it is a paradoxical mix of βίος and Ζωή’, the character contains several possible lives. Therefore, it is an important element in processes of subjectivation: it shows an idea of life which develops in a body, in a certain space and time, but which also expands in infinity.The ontological characterisation of character, in Pirandello’s theatre, is related to the reflexion on the character that everybody has to wear in the world’s theatre. Because life doesn’t coincide onty wil.h onc form of individuation, there’s always a rupture between the Self-perception and Others perception. The rupture can be solved, in pirandellian conception, when the subject abandons his own identity, in order to fuse with the nature. This perspective is radicalized in Carmelo Bene’s theatre: his processes of de-subjectivation are essentially an oblivion of the individuation. The Teatro delle Albe gets across the desert of subject and object opened by CB, inheriting bis work on the chasm of the voice. Nevertheless, in the company poetics, there is the possibility to think the subjectivity according to new borders and new desires
La filosofia del personaggio pensa l’identità attraverso lo specchio dell’alterità. Alla luce della storia delle idee di visione, presenza, rappresentazione e mimesi, si delinea una teatralità dell’esperienza al limite fra l’uno dionisiaco, totalità della fusione estatica, e il due apollineo, percezione della scissione rappresentata. “Essere un altro” è un’espressione che intende riassumere il ruolo centrale del teatro nella genesi della soggettività. Intreccio paradossale di βίος e ζωή, il personaggio è un ricettacolo di vite possibili e si rivela, perciò, una figura decisiva nei processi di soggettivazione. Esso racchiude un’idea di vita che si sviluppa in un corpo, in uno spazio e in un tempo, che sono, al contempo, puntuali ed infiniti
Barthelmebs-Raguin, Hélène. "De la construction des identités féminines : Regards sur la littérature francophone de 1950 à nos jours." Thesis, Mulhouse, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012MULH4472/document.
Full textThe study of different representations, whether at a social, body or linguistic level, leads us to question the very concept of identity in literature. That “portmanteau word” – “mot-valise” in the meaning set out by Jean Petitot-Cocorda – belongs to Patriarchy, which means that the notion of identity itself has been (culturally) constructed by men for men, and the very word identity belongs to the semantic and existentialist masculine world. When we try to define feminine/female identity, we are trapped by the language constructed by patriarchal culture: the notion of identity is relevant for the Masculine and cannot be autonomously applied to women, since it has not been thought out for them in the first place. Therefore we reach a deadlock, as it were, when seeking a fixed, universal identity of women. This thesis will explore the different prisms through which French-speaking female writers put women’s identities into words and set them into tension so as to rethink the very concept of identity. Such process started in the 1950s with the publication of Le Deuxième sexe (1949) by Simone de Beauvoir, which marked the beginning of anti-essentialist studies.In the panorama of the terminology used in Gender studies, our attention will focus on Women’s literature, which implies claiming the existence of specific women’s identities from a differentialist feminist viewpoint. Female writers belonging to that category tend to analyze how the Feminine is conveyed into words in the text, to embody it, through a peculiar aesthetic. Thus woman’s identity in literature is based on polysemy and plurality, leading to an “open” identity, inscribed “actively” in the text by women writers (themes, narrative structures, etc.) and “passively” (for example, through a feminine use of language, the presence of the female writer’s body in the text, etc.). We have to shift feminist perspectives in order to achieve a more comprehensive feminine definition, in which text and writer are indissociable.The female authors included in our corpus (Corinna S. Bille, Nina Bouraoui, Assia Djebar, Jacqueline Harpman, Anne Hébert, Alice Rivaz, Gabrielle Roy and Marguerite Yourcenar) strive to develop a real literary aesthetic which is at odds with a rule-complying social model. From that viewpoint, women are not reduced to their essence, that is to their biological sex. The Feminine, as it is considered by our authors, is the result of a process of reflection and self-exploration, involving traditional societal issues (as figured in the themes dealt with), as well as an innovative literary language, capable of going beyond the classical dichotomy between masculine and feminine.Therefore, the aim is no longer to take possession of the “language of the other”, but to find one’s own. Therefore, we are distant from the patriarchal archetype constructing, and pre-establishing, fixed identities for women’s existence and writing. As we will see, such identities are no longer inscribed in the tradition of the objects “women”: they try to forge a new object in their writing, and in so doing they end up redefining their genre. In order to make up for the lack of “identity landmarks”, they resort to specific feminine features (oral language, nature, sexuality, etc.) so as to reach a definition of a Whole. The aim is no longer to write like men or against men, but to write women out of the patriarchal language by introducing in their texts those feminine elements capable of building a multifaceted feminine identity
Gervasi, Laurène. "La liberté dans les mémoires féminins au XVIIe siècle." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCC267.
Full textMadame de Motteville and the Duchess of Montpensier were two contemporary aristocrats. The former was a lady-in-waiting to Anne of Austria; the latter was a first cousin of Louis XIV. They witnessed the upheavals caused by the Regency and the Fronde and shared a passionate interest in the history of their times. It led them to explore similar issues. They each chose a form of spinsterhood and made life choices which distinguished them from the common run of women and contributed to their desire for liberty. The main reason why they can be regarded as litterary 'sisters' is the writing of Memoirs. History made them both question their aristocratic identity, though in different ways: La Grande Mademoiselle took the opportunity of the Fronde to fight for values threatened by political changes while Madame de Motteville supported the legitimate power of the Regency through her Memoirs. They also both questioned their feminine identity. Theydealt with the oppression women suffered as a result of a patriachal society. After Louis XIV took power in 1660, hopes of feminine liberation were dashed. Hence both memorialists' tendency to seek and write about a personal experience of freedom. They could not achieve the status of 'liberated' women in the public sphere but they could try to do so in the private one. They fought their way to freedom by reinventing women's destiny in their own ways, but without defending feminist views as such, as their values remained tinged withtraditionalism. The writing of Memoirs allowed them to define within the private sphere a space in which their quest for freedom couldflourish
Lacroix, Mylène. "Les mots étrangers dans le théâtre de Shakespeare : pratique de l’hétérolinguisme et questions de traduction." Thesis, Paris 10, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA100111/document.
Full textIf we understand “strange” in the former sense of “foreign, alien” as well as “unusual or surprising”, « strange words » play a significant role in Shakespeare’s drama, whether they take the form of single words, whole sentences or even entire scenes written in a foreign language. Shakespearian heterolingualism (Rainier Grutman) also encompasses social or regional varieties of English in the plays. Its importance, however, has less to do with quantity than quality. Indeed, Shakespeare’s “strange words” are highly theatrical and often take centre stage, in an age when the English language itself was beginning to define its identity. Their role is rarely ornamental—they destabilise and unsettle their host language even as they playfully interact with it, as is demonstrated by the many interlingual puns concocted by Shakespeare. Moreover, the cohabitation of languages in some of Shakespeare’s plays can sometimes lead to questionable acts of translation. As Shakespeare stages the frequent “slips” of translation, he unveils the other side of the English language, which always runs the risk of becoming foreign in its turn. The translation of Shakespeare’s heterolingual texts themselves is no less problematic. The trial of the doubly foreign presents the translator with a number of challenges that this thesis proposes to explore. Nevertheless, if the plurality of languages is usually perceived as a curse when it comes to translation, it also opens up opportunities for the translating language: forcefully “de-provincialised” (Ricoeur), the mother tongue begins to thrive
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.
Full textThis 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
Le, Bastard Gwenola. "« He don’t belong », la communauté impossible : les paradoxes de l'écriture dans l'oeuvre théâtrale de Eugène O'Neill." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012REN20061/document.
Full textEugene O’Neill’s drama is generally approached from heterogeneous perspectives: if there is a critical consensus concerning O’Neill’s canonical position in American theater, it is probably due to the critics’ tendency to neglect the early plays. This dissertation aims to reconstruct the link between the plays and the shifting contexts in which they were elaborated in order to highlight O’Neill’s aesthetics of contradiction fueled by an unsatisfied quest for belonging. Instead of positing that O’Neill’s achievement lies in the late plays, this study aims at evaluating the early plays, as they constitute the matrix of his writing. The quest for belonging runs through O’Neill’s plays, which also show a constant tension between avant-garde and commercial stage, individual and collective behavior. O’Neill’s plays are difficult to apprehend, as they are extremely heterogeneous. But as a whole, they appear directed, however, toward one single pursuit: the quest for belonging which characterizes the context of production as much as the writing. By considering the plays as a whole, unified by the impossible quest for a community, one may attempt a new approach to O’Neill’s works, as the contradictions inherent in the writing show how O’Neill’s body of work produces its own ambiguity and interest
Belveze, Pauline. "Ethique, esthétique et métaphysique dans l'œuvre de maturité de l'écrivain autrichien Hugo von Hofmannsthal." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016STRAC031/document.
Full textThis thesis aims at highlighting the ethical, metaphysical and aesthetic questions that arise in the mature works of the Austrian author Hugo von Hofmannsthal. After having dealt with Hofmannsthal's original dilemma between opposing conceptions of the world and of his own existence, this work considers the two versions of The Woman without a Shadow. This opus is the first expression at maturity of his aesthetic whose underlying metaphysical foundation it enlightens.The experience of First World War, subject of our third chapter, compelled Hofmannsthal to widen the scope of his thoughts. His later plays illustrate which ethical conducts should rule individuals in a given society as well as between the peoples in Europe. The Salzburg Great World Theaterwhich is the focus of our fourth chapter, sets the pattern of his social ethics inspired by the principles of the social doctrine of the Church. As for The Tower, a tragedy which we will deeply analyse in our fifth chapter, it sketches his ethics for political action. The purpose of this play is indeed to advocate peace in Europe while helping nations to achieve higher standard of Humanity
Sahmadi, Linda. "L’émergence d’un discours féministe dans la fiction courte de Nathaniel Hawthorne (1832-1844) : l’écriture du devenir-femme." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015CLF20024/document.
Full textFemale portraits are abundant in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s fiction, short stories and novels alike. The influence of the women evolving in his private sphere may be at the origin of his ambiguous feminist vision, as his allegiance was divided between his Puritan inheritance (both the Mannings and the Hawthornes) on the one hand, and, on the other, the emerging feminist convictions of his in-laws (the Peabodys). Hawthorne’s female portraits are thus characterized by a tendency to binarism as they pit an essentialist view of women against a differentialist one. This binarist perspective reflects the narrow-mindedness of the patriarcal system which the male heroes try to defend and maintain. Deleuze and Guatarri’s concepts of “minor literature” and “becoming-woman” will help us understand how the woman-image of the Puritans is a minored woman in the realm both of the social order and the symbolic order. Hawthorne’s feminist voice is an equivocal one as his text is undergoing a subterranean process of “becoming-woman.”
Elarem, Hajer. "A quest for selfhood : deconstructing and reconstructing female identity in Doris Lessing's early fiction." Thesis, Besançon, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015BESA1026/document.
Full textA prolific, anti-conformist, rebellious and provocative writer, Doris Lessing has been considered by critics as the forerunner of feminism, communism, anti-colonialism and anti-aparteid. By attributing to her the Nobel Price for Literature in 2007, the Swedish Academy rewarded an « epicist of the female experience, who, with skepticism, fire and visionary power subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny ». Reducing her work, however, to political issues means overlooking a crucial and omnipotent theme related to the quest for selfhood and the desire for self-knowledge animating the female subject, In order to gain this goal, it is first important to go through the experience of deconstruction. This is why this work will analyse Doris Lessing's deconstructive approach to the female identity. This deconstruction is not to be understood in the strict Derridian sense but in a broader persepective residing in the writer's universal and prophetic vision. In fact, Doris Lessing endeavors to deconstruct an essentialist conception which would lead to a universal apprehension of the female identity. She denies all logocentric thinking and questions fixed and unified identities, and by the same token, the universality of the quest. This reveals a nomadic thought, which in Deleuzian sense, entails that the female identity is fluid, changing, without frontiers, open to all possibilities and with a great potential to re-construct and re-define itself
Beyeme, Nze Alexis. "Esthétique et théorie de l'errance : regard littéraire et perspective de lecture sur les oeuvres romanesques d'Edouard Glissant, de John Maxwell Coetzee et de Haruki Murakami." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030078/document.
Full textThe wandering this being phenomenon which is moved and travel (browse) the diégèse of a transgressive literary production. This revolution of the textual language, the first purpose of which is to put to death the tradition of literature. Here still the representative kind (genre) of letters, novel, is pushed aside (knocked down) up to its last cutting off, so much the transformation (processing) is obvious and perceptible in the modern, postmodern thought and postcolonial. The hybridization summons (convenes) so that, the reader is alienated, dumbfounded one more time by a scriptural meshing which pushes him (it) to the transcendence of the basic (basal) analysis. The author so sets up himself as herald who kills the former (old) and subverts the mask with a total freedom. Then, literary genres, characters, temporality and space re-configure indefatigably by the motive for the wandering becomes a singular and central agent which livens up (leads) the current events in a general way of the world of the art and in particular the literature. This united thesis the voice of three writers: Glissant, Coetzee and Murakami, the later respectively accentuate a sought identity, an anomie which affects (allocates) logos, the pathos and ethos and character so singular as hybrid
De, Iglesias Edyala. "Le labyrinthe en miroirs d’Eva. Le mythe de l’éternel féminin et l’anti-héroïne : du roman au film : Camille/Le roman de Marguerite Gauthier et A hora da estrela/L’heure de l’étoile." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030046/document.
Full textThe critical analysis of the personages Marguerite Gauthier and Macabéa in the films -Camille / Le roman de Marguerite Gauthier, 1936 and A hora da estrela /The hour of the star,1986 - seeks to understand the mechanisms by which the myth of the eternal feminine ensures its permanence in contemporary women’s imaginary as an image-reference. The first section of the thesis focus the power of looking by an analytical approach between the stereotypes of the colonized body and the feminine body, identified as the “other” in the colonial discourse. The second section is a historical and critical analysis of the eternal feminine represented by the emblematic personage of Marguerite Gauthier, performed by Greta Garbo, and the resignifications of this myth by the contemporary media. The third section is a critical reflection about the feminine outsider, represented by the personage of Macabéa, by questioning the reception of the myth and its influence on the women’s creative process. This work focuses on the concept of 'experience' as a central element for the articulation of "others' perspectives, while questioning the relationship between film, feminine and narrative
Tarjoman, Porshkoh Naghmeh. "Images de la femme contemporaine au miroir des œuvres de Zoya Pirzad et Katherine Pancol." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA016/document.
Full textAt the crossroads of literature, sociology and psychology, this interdisciplinary work is intended to analyzing (analyze) the condition of contemporary women through a corpus of Persian and French works written respectively by Zoya Pirzad and Katherine Pancol and published between the years 1990 and 2010.These works, by their wide readership, are in popular literature. An analytical approach on the evolution of the novelistic genre, can define our corpus in relation to the new forms of sentimental literature, especially the Chick lit.The emergence of women novelists illustrating particularly the feminine universe requires studies on women’s writing.In this regard, Virginia Woolf insists on the importance of personal experiences in the creation of literary works, Luce Irigary identifies a language full of excess, folly and contradiction among women authors and Elaine Showalter proposes the construction of a framework (of a female executive) to analyze the literature of women.Subsequently, the question of feminism and its various currents in the West and the East explicitly developed. To approve the famous phrase of Simone de Beauvoir "One is not born a women, one becomes one", this work seeks to highlight the direct and indirect influence of the family, the school and the environment on training of the identity of the individual.Finally, by a psychological approach, this research promises a silent renaissance by examining the mental state of the female characters. The mother-daughter or father-daughter relationship and sexuality are major axes of this last part
Arnold, Markus. "Écritures de violence et d'interculturalité : enjeux identitaires dans le roman contemporain mauricien d'expression française et anglaise." Phd thesis, Université de la Réunion, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00842819.
Full textMatamoros, Isabelle. "Mais surtout, lisez ! : les pratiques de lecture des femmes dans la France du premier XIXe siècle." Thesis, Lyon, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LYSE2121/document.
Full textThis work aims to explain, from a gender perspective, reading practices of women in the early 19th century France. Until now, the way French women read in those days and their own uses of reading, behind stereotypes and sexist representations, are not really known in cultural history. According to these stereotypes, women read badly, or not seriously, and only “feminine literature”. Based on sixty six women’s personal writings (diaries, autobiographies, letters), this work aims to inverse this focus in order to analyze the women’s point of view on their own practices. Such analysis reveals how gender’s types shape first education and, more generally, social identities. Women have to read, of course, but only that kind of literature that would be acceptable for a « good wife », educated but not scholar, virtuous and pious. However, focusing on personal writings, we show that women were not passive within this social and cultural domination: as a reflexive experience, reading leads them to a wide reformulation of their social identity, which includes a possibility to emancipate by reading and learning
Daux-Combaudon, Anne-Laure. "Les autobiographies des jeunes Allemands de l’Est après 1989 : des autobiographies contre-discursives. Définition d’un genre textuel et analyse linguistique de ses enjeux." Thesis, Paris 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA030133/document.
Full textThrough the use of text linguistics tools, this work aims to analyse the post 1989 autobiographies of young East Germans, which are often considered to be unclassifiable in the autobiographic genre. It starts with a description of the interdisciplinary position adopted in this text linguistics work. While focussing on a corpus of literary discourse texts it invests notions of discourse analysis which fall within the tradition of Michel Foucault. It continues with the analysis of the enunciative, pragmatic, thematic and stylistic specificities of these post 1989 autobiographies, which reveal, through a counter-discursive text type, the apprehension of their young East German authors. This text type refers to an autobiographic subvariant produced by author-narrators who have been marginalised from the social-historic reality, with a discursive purpose in reaction to the dominant discourse of which they are the objects and which they refute. La! stly, this work offers a detailed analysis of nominal compound lexemes having Ost- or West- as their determiner and their inclusion in the text of these post 1989 autobiographies of young East Germans. Among these denominations referring to East and West realities, certain nominal compounds can be qualified by phraseological compounds: as key linguistic elements in the diffusion of East discourse stereotypes they give rise, in the corpus texts, to numerous lexical [de]constructions which allow a criticism of the dominant discourse, thereby illustrating the defensive dimension of the East German counter-discourse autobiographies
Mihajlovska, Lupka. "L'hybridation dans l'oeuvre de Jeannette Winterson." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Orléans, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012ORLE1124.
Full textWe understand literary hybridization as the combination of seemingly different elements resulting in the creation of an entity that is simultaneously single and multiple. Indeed, while it is utterly other and new, the hybrid still shows the marks of its constituents. The hybrid incorporates its ‘parents’’ initial fields of representation while reaching beyond them. Consequently, hybridization is a process that pushes all boundaries, be they literary or cultural, to offer an ever more complete vision of the subject and his/her life. In Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges are not the Only Fruit, Sexing the Cherry, Written on the Body and The PowerBook, hybridization permeates every level of the text. Thus, the narrators’ physical and sexual hybridity is a manifestation of their plural and paradoxical identities. These hybrid creatures (monsters, transvestites or androgynous beings) build their identities through the stories they tell and that are always inspired by existing narratives. Therefore, the narrators and their narratives proliferate conjointly, intermix and redefine each other constantly. The shape of the text fluctuates with generic hybridization and intertextuality. Realistic narratives – such as autobiographical, historical or scientific discourses – and fictional ones – such as fairy tales or romances – interact to produce generic hybrids with parodic undertones that represent the nature of the subject, his/her life, reality and truth. Finally, by hybridizing existing texts and personal literary devices, the author elaborates original narratives that rewrite her ancestors’ sexist discourses and reflect how she perceives the individual, the world and art
Fornhoff-Levitt, Michèle. "Le théâtre yiddish de l'entre-deux-guerres à Paris (1919-1939). La judéité mise en scène." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Sorbonne université, 2023. https://accesdistant.sorbonne-universite.fr/login?url=https://theses-intra.sorbonne-universite.fr/2023SORUL113.pdf.
Full textThis thesis studies, from an interdisciplinary angle, the way in which modern Yiddish theater at its height during the interwar period, represents and performs Yidishkeyt – the Jewishness (lit. 'Yiddishness') of Yiddish-speaking Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe – on the stages of the West, in this case those of Paris, considered in that period as the Western capital of art and entertainment. The in-depth study of the actors (artists, public and halls), the repertoire, the dramaturgy and theatrical codes aims to identify more specifically the transnational and diasporic character of this cultural identity through its dramatization, its performance, and its reception when it leaves, along with the human migrations, its place of anchorage to invest an often-hostile new territory. The conception of Yiddish theater as a socio-cultural system occupying a space that is both autonomous and dialogical in relation to French theatrical culture makes it possible to analyze this highly mobile, networked, and bonding theater, and to understand the cultural transfers on both sides – through the eyes of a Jewish and non-Jewish public. This dual perspective illuminates not only the idiosyncrasy but also the versatility of theatrical Yidishkeyt, as well as its unwavering affinity with the collective and ‘national’ memory of the Jewish people, if not with Judaism itself
Scavino, Dardo. "Recherche sur le genre policier dans la littérature argentine." Bordeaux 3, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998BOR30010.
Full textThe purpose of this thesis is to research dectective novels from argentina from 1849 to 1995. In 1849, jose marmol, the founder of the argentinian detective novel, published asesinato de florencio varela. More than a hundred years later, in 1995 juan jose saer ended this detective genre with la pesquisa. Studying borges, bioy casares, rodolfo walsh's tales and novels, this thesis follows the principal lines of this genre
Fée, Armelle. "Canon littéraire et identité indienne : l'écriture métisse." Paris 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA030049.
Full textGenty, Stéphanie. "Identité de genre et malaise dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Marilyn French." Bordeaux 3, 1994. http://www.theses.fr/1994BOR30024.
Full textMarilyn french's work, varied and coherent, includes novels, literary criticism and sociological essays. Novelist and feminist theorist, marilynfrench (1929- ) belongs to the generation of american women writers who discovered their vocation and their voice in the context of the women's liberation movement. Her contribution to contemporary women's writing is her description of our current malaise, a malaise which is multiform and whose source is the constrictive gener identity which deforms men and women and whose signs appear in our socio-cultural environment. Pessimism and determinism haunt her novels since the suffering continues despite the influence of the feminist movement. This fatalism contradicts the utopian project sketched out in an important essay and constitutes a fundamental problem for our study. The contradiction, opposing two literary genres, is somewhat resolved by the author's recognition of the complexity of human experience. Her work attests to the difficulty in elaborating new gender identities capable of healing the wound
Barghi, Oliaee Faezeh. "Derek Walcott's Engagement with creole identity." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCC266.
Full textThis thesis seeks to explore the process and phenomenon through which Caribbean national and cultural identity has been constructed. In order to achieve this goal, two of Derek Walcott’s major poems and one of his dramas have been chosen. The first is his Creole epic poem, Omeros, which concentrates on the issues of Creole identity and the concept of national hero. Since Walcott’s poetry is highly influenced by his personal life and consequently life in his homeland, the island of Saint Lucia, it seems indispensable to study his autobiographical poem, Another Life, which is Walcott’s retrospective review of his artistic journey until the age of 33. Moreover, since Omeros draws parallelswith Homeric epics, it seems highly beneficial to this study to include his other rewriting of Homericepics, The Odyssey : a Play. This study makes an effort to show that these two rewritings are complementary to each other: the West Indian epic poem is the quest for identity seen from the point of view of the colonized subject, whereas the West Indian stage drama is the quest for identity from the colonizer’s perspective. Studying Walcott’s poetry and dramas helps one perceive the ways in which the West Indian poet makes an effort to deconstruct the importance of the Western literary tradition through rewriting the Homeric epics. This tradition perpetuates the binary opposition of superiority/inferiority which plays a seminal role in the construction of individual identity. By displacing the Saint Lucian characters and literature from their place in the margins to the center, Walcott decenters the Homeric epics, and Western literature. Creolisation, Colonialism, Postcolonialism,Deconstruction, , History, Memory, Rewriting
Le, Marc'hadour Rémi. "Identité et individuation dans l'oeuvre de Jorge Luis Borges." Rennes 2, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996REN20005.
Full textThe analysis of Jorge Luis Borges's imaginary framework permits to value some essential structures or the subject's thinking and writing. But these structures go beyond the individual ; they reveal symbolical or archetypical substratum that supports an original conception of man an world. Borges's literary adventure is first an individual identity quest, an attempt at self definition. The split personality appears in a dual writing process and in the specular play of the ego and the other. A deep aspiration to the coincidence of opposites, to the establishment of an authentic individuation springs forth from this tension. This quest also transcribes a general matter of identity through the characters of the narrative prose. Some Borges's protagonists suffer an obvious deficiency of individuation, others maintain conflictual but basic relations with the name, a symbol of identity
Rocchi, Jean-Paul. "James Baldwin : écriture et identité." Paris 4, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA040212.
Full textBerlage, Pauline. "Las politicas de representación del género en la escritura de la migración latinoamericana : un analisis comparativo de El camino a Itaca, de C Liscano ; Arbol de Luna, de J. C. Méndez Guédez ; y The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, de J. Diaz." Thesis, Tours, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014TOUR2006.
Full textLatin American migration literature is only recently a subject of study in European academies; the present thesis addresses this by dealing with the subject from a gender perspective. The gender question, understood as a performative attitude which creates norms and models but also a-normative beings and uncategorisable bodies, is at the centre of this work which, more specifically, brings into focus the politics of representation of those bodies and migrant subjectivities. Three works of narrative fiction from the end of the twentieth century and beginning of the twenty-first are here analyzed: El camino a Ítaca (1994), by Uruguayan-European author Carlos Liscano; Árbol de Luna (2000), by Venezuelan and now Madrid adoptive Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez; and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2008), by Domincan-American writer J. Díaz
La literatura de la migración latinoamericana no ha despertado interés académico en el hispanismo europeo hasta hace bien poco. Este estudio se interesa precisamente por esta cuestión desde una perspectiva de género –en el sentido anglosajón de gender–. Éste se entiende como actitud performativa que crea normas y modelos pero también seres a-normativos y cuerpos inclasificables por lo que se estudiarán las políticas de representación de estos cuerpos y subjetividades migrantes. Tres obras de ficción de finales del siglo XX y principios del siglo XXI serán analizadas: El camino a Ítaca (1994), del escritor uruguayo-europeo Carlos Liscano; Árbol de luna (2000), del venezolano madrileño Juan Carlos Méndez Guédez y The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2008), del dominicano expatriado Junot Díaz
Marsaleix, Nadège. "L'inscription du genre dans l'oeuvre de fiction de Virginia Woolf." Paris 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA030120.
Full textThe gender issue is addressed here from three different angles. It was only in the 1980s that gender became an analytical concept encompassing both sexes, which brought radical changes in the field of textual politics. In the first phase of this study, where gender is definde as a social and a cultural construct, the purpose is, rather than to analyse the power of one sex over the other, to consider instead the powers shared by each sex while showing how a cultural norm can subtly be turned into a so-called natural one. The second part deals with the evolution of Woolf's feminine discourse. As she engages in a linguitic quest and seeks to find another language to inscribe women's existence into her texts, she manages to create a felinine cosmogony, thus paying tribute to women'eccentric though central position. .
Marcheix, Daniel. "Temps et identité dans l'oeuvre romanesque d'Anne Hébert." Bordeaux 3, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000BOR30007.
Full textLee, Kwang Jin. "Famille impossible, identité possible chez Patrick Modiano." Paris 8, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA083055.
Full textThe Modiano protagonist is seeking to have both an ideal (perfect) and virtual (fantasy) family. Every scene not only represents the unconscious fantasies of the protagonist but also the major story for Modiano. We can see, on the path from research to mystification of the family, a typical dramatization. However, for the Modiano protagonist, the only family is the one of the novel. The family is impossible, but the novel is possible. Similarly, there is no new family, but only the New Family Novel : there is not only the novel but also the theatre (or circus). In reality, life is a circus both comical and grotesque at the same time. The family is lost, but for Modiano, it is impossible to find the thing that one once lost. It is better to re-create something new : instead of finding the family back, the protagonist writes something. In all the Modiano books, the question of identity begins and ends with that of writing. Our study aims to know how he establishes the link between identity and writing, how the process develops itself. The book is the golden key to enter the world of Modiano and the keyword to translate the mystery of life : literary creation is the only (re)solution for Modiano. The book is the free space that allows one to accomplish his mission which seems impossible : to live and re-live his life
Rinck, Fanny. "L'article de recherche en Sciences du langage et en Lettres : figure de l’auteur et identité disciplinaire du genre." Grenoble 3, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006GRE39039.
Full textThe study describes the French research article in two disciplines of human science, linguistics and literary studies. The interest of the concept of text genre and of a quantitative and qualitative approach in corpus linguistics is exploited toward a characterization of the norms and the diversity of the texts. Description must also be useful from a didactic point of view, to help students better deal with academic writing. A framework for an enunciative analysis of the genre is introduced with the concept of “authorial figure”: how the text manifests a figure of its responsible is investigated through the polyphonic construction of such a figure (i. E. Through the multiplicity and the hierarchical organization of the points of view) ; the purpose is to put forward a linguistic analysis of the rhetorics of science and of the role of “author as a researcher”. Based on an electronic corpus of 220 articles, the semi-automatic analysis takes into account a large number of linguistic features (structural, semiotical, lexical, enunciative and morpho-syntactical aspects), and relates them to one another and to their functions in the text. The genre variations are explored with the disciplinary identities and the different images of the research activity shown by the articles, with the specificity of the Phd students articles, and with the styles (the uniques uses each writer makes of the genre studied)