Tesi sul tema "Histoire africaine américaine"
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Bastien-Schmit, Sévrine. "La représentation de l'histoire africaine américaine dans les manuels scolaires du XXe siècle : une étude comparative de manuels d'histoire américains publiés entre 1930 et 1992". Paris 7, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA070071.
Testo completoDelmas, Lise. "L’Amérique en clair-obscur : construction d’une visibilité africaine-américaine dans l’oeuvre photographique de Gordon Parks". Thesis, Brest, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019BRES0077.
Testo completoThe photographic work of Gordon Parks (1912-2006) reflects the many ways in which the African American community evolved and changed during the 20th century. Taking as a starting point the concept of visibility – as tackled by George Didi-Huberman in his essay Peuples exposés, peoples figurants or Nicholas Mirzoeff in his book The Right to Look -- this thesis will question the interweaving of aesthetics and politics in Parks’s monumental and eclectic photographic output. Parks’s work finds its roots in the black Chicago Renaissance of the late 1930s, and then evolved under the supervision of Roy Stryker at the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the Great Depression. For the next two decades, Parks’s vision expanded as he worked for Life magazine, where he was the first African American to join the staff of photographers in 1949. If the photograph’s own visibility in American and African American cultural and artistic history cannot be understated, this dissertation will try to go beyond the image of Parks as a pioneer of black photography or as a “Renaissance Man”, as he was often portrayed in mainstream media. We shall strive to bring to light the ambiguities in Parks’s photography which stemmed from his anchoring in different cultural spheres. His own dealings with racism and segregation as well as his knowledge of classical Western painting gave his photographic representations of the African American experience a powerful resonance. The fact that Parks chose to have his vision broadcasted on media outlets with catered mainly to a white audience, like Life magazine, generated tensions to which particular attention will be paid in this dissertation
Moussodji, Elie Stelle. "Le discours politique du dictateur dans les littératures africaine-francophone et hispano-américaine : construction et production du sens". Thesis, Paris 10, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA100005/document.
Testo completoThe political speech of the dictator in the African and Spanish-American literary fields offers huge perspectives of study. Indeed, the politics being an environment of social exchange, to study the mechanisms of production of the political speech of the dictator and the constructions of its sense by his public is a domain which we had wished to explore. Our thesis aims at showing exactly, the mechanisms of production of the speech of the dictator and how the public develops the work of encoding and decoding of this speech. The purpose being to highlight the various data which contribute to the elaboration of this sense, and to see the participation of each of the characters agents in this work of collaboration. We approached this work under two angles which are also the ones by whom builds itself the sense of the political speech of the dictator in our works corpus. This thesis brings to light the construction, at first extra linguistic, of the mechanism of production and construction of the sense of the speech of the dictator in the literary fields chosen as basis as our study. And then, we put the linguistic elements which contribute to the construction of the sense. Our method of research forced to us to call on to three linguistic fields without which we would not have been able to bring to a successful conclusion this research.The pragmatics thus allowed us to make a study of elements bound to the context of broadcast of the speech which go in account into the process of encoding and decoding of the speech. We then resorted to the rhetoric which allowed us to see how the dictator built his strategy of speech and how he develops his argumentation. And to finish, the semiology helped us in the highlighting of the linguistic ways of construction of the sense
Monbeig, Fanny. "Représentation et performance de genre et de « race » dans la littérature féminine noire (africaine-américaine, caribéenne, française)". Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018BOR30038.
Testo completoSlavery is the chronotope of "Tituba" by M. Condé and "Beloved" by T. Morrison. Slavery is a paradigmatic heritage in other novels by these authors, as well as in Alice Walker's and Gisèle Pineau's art ; it determines the contemporary racial relationships. The splitting up of the slave's body calls to mind the pattern of sewing, narrative weaving, re-membering of the social body, and reinventing a traditionally feminine work. The highlighting of performative power of the master's words reminds us the historicity and the politic aspect of the invention of racism in the plantation system. The example of women's beauty and its racialization illustrates the complicated co-construction of gender and race. The writing of past history of slavery points out and explains the present time, but it requires a painful fight against various processes of individual and collective repression. "Beloved" and "The Color Purple" remind us of the importance of rememory, while "Paradise", "Morne Câpresse" and "Heremakhonon" tell about memory in excess. The criticism of historian claim for objectivity belongs to a global questioning of science on the one hand, and of the heritage of Enlightenment on the other. The ambivalences of postmemory confront the contemporary sacralization of memorial and testimonial literature. Postcolonial haunting is seen in a nex light, quite ironic. The analysis of dialectic motherhood in "Beloved", "Tituba" or "Rosie Carpe" allows us to conceptualise the link between national storytelling, racialization of motherhood and political control of women's bodies. Reading and analysing the novels with the concept of intersectionality shows a global deconstruction of womanhood, freed from the stress of reproductive sexuality. At the crossroad of women's power to give birth and death, the midwife is a recurring character. The midwife is often accused of being a witch, and she belongs to a feminine mythology that can turn the stigma around. The witch is born from rivalry in both religious and medical fields. In Toni Morrison's, Maryse Condé's or Marie Ndiaye's novels, the witch is an intercultural invention ; her parodic and performative strength undermines literary categories. Born from the trauma of slavery, the novels outline the pattern of concrete utopias. The totalitarian and separatist aspect of these utopias appears in the grinning face of the contemporary eschatological hope: the sect. Therefore any hope of a better future seems to be ridiculous ; when the return to a primary space, turning back in time, is dying in the impossible way back to Africa. The "Négritude" of Aimé Césaire is dismissed, and so are the hopes of "Créolité", by a literature that rejects post-racial utopia. There is not any idealization of movement in these novels, which tell contemporary migrations and pains of exile condition. Although the narrative strategies are different, they all intend to expose and overcome the color line
Zaaraoui, Karima. "Tours et détours du genre : les avatars de l'écriture féminine africaine américaine autour de Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Wilson et Hannah Crafts". Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA030003.
Testo completoThe comparative study of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs), Our Nig ; Sketches from the Life of a Free Black (Harriet Wilson), and The Bondwoman’s Narrative (Hannah Crafts) aims at opening up new perspectives on the specificity of the female subject, through the slave narrative’s autobiographical writing. If these women writers stand as privileged witnesses of the female condition in Antebellum America, they do not remain passive nonetheless. The aim of this dissertation is to approach the links between « writing » and « feminine », by taking into account the text itself, be it autobiographical or fictionalized. Significantly enough, self-consciousness, identity and the construction of a self through writing are definitely major components of the African American literary tradition in which outstanding voices are singled out. The slave narrative tends to drift away from autobiography in order to afford its survival and conforms to the conventions that proved successful, thus revealing the truth of the subject. In this perspective, gender is the key issue of this study which brings an exclusive insight on black women’s writing. Discursive difference, writing the female body, and a staged conflicted subject are the core themes of this work. As a follower of Dickens and Byron, Hannah Crafts creates a unique blend of genres, while Harriet Wilson’s modus operandi is to rewrite Emerson’s reflections on society, and Harriet Jacobs offers a subversion of the sentimental novel. By all means, these female slave narratives’ « tour de force » lies in the aesthetics and poetics of the genre located at the crossroads of autobiography, sentimental fiction, the gothic and the picaresque. The subject determines its own sexuation, which enables the female subject to break free from the male subject. This dissertation also offers the opportunity to raise the question of history and literature. The slave narrative falls within the frame of literature as the writer’s political stance is an invitation to reconsider avant-garde women’s literary production within the African American literary canon
Vettorato, Cyril. "Poésie moderne et oralité dans les « Amériques noires » : une étude comparée (Etats-Unis, Brésil, Cuba et Caraïbe anglophone)". Thesis, Paris 4, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA040196.
Testo completoFrom the early Twentieth Century on, a written poetry has been carrying in the entire Americas the voice of people of African descent; this phenomenon is distinctively modern, as far as such a voice had until then been unconceivable within a literary field conceived in terms that were hardly compatible with the very idea of a perspective proper to one particular social or ethnic group. From the “Harlem Renaissance” of the 1920s to the Cuban “negrismo”, from the Brazilian “Teatro Experimental do Negro” to the “Black Arts Movement” or the “Caribbean Artists Movement”, there have been numerous manifestations of this quest of a Black poetic voice. The poets’ appropriation of oral practices, in particular, played a dynamic role in the appearance of this transnational poetic community of discourse.. The aim of this work is to question the methodological benefits of comparative literature in the clarification of what is at stake literarily speaking in this modern poetry of the “Black Americas”
Roy, Michaël. "« My Narrative is just published » : publication, circulation et réception des récits d'esclaves africains-américains, 1825-1861". Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015USPCD080.
Testo completoThis dissertation is at the crossroads of two distinct disciplinary fields : African American studies and the history of the book. More specifically, it examines the publication, circulation, and reception of antebellum slave narratives—the narratives of Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs, as well as a number of lesser-known works. The story of the slave narrative is well rehearsed : narratives of ex-slaves, critics say, were usually written in collaboration with white abolitionists, with antislavery societies subsidizing publication ; they met with considerable success, going through multiple editions and selling in the tens of thousands ; they were largely directed toward a northern white audience ; and they soon emerged as a distinct genre in antebellum America. None of these statements is fundamentally untrue. The overall picture they paint of antebellum slave narratives is, however, a distorted one. Slave narratives were produced through a variety of authorial economies. Investigating these economies allows to shed new light not only on the slave narrative as a genre, but also on African Americans’ print practices at a time when the publishing industry was still emerging and when book people were reluctant to publish and distribute antislavery literature—at least before Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin came out in 1852. Acknowledging the heterogeneous and fluid nature of what is often perceived as a homogeneous and strictly codified genre gives us a better sense of how slave narratives might have been variously received and consumed in the decades preceding the Civil War
Harpin, Tina. "Inceste, race et histoire : fictions et contre-fictions de pouvoir dans les romans sud-africains et états-uniens des XXème et XXIème siècles". Thesis, Paris 13, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA131014.
Testo completoIncest, a notorious universal taboo, is an ancient protean theme in literature. According to Peter Thorslev, writers are drawn to this theme because of its powerful dramatization of the conflict between an individual's desire and that of the society. This theory is applicable to the past tradition of romanticism, but it doesn't take into account the complexity of incest fictions written in Twentieth-century novels. The «proliferation of discourses on sex within the context of power itself » described by Foucault, along with the development of the politics of race and eugenics, explain how the incest theme is intertwined with another controversial concept : « race ». Novels no longer depict an individual fighting against society when they portray incest, but they think of human groups trying to define themselves, often by way of race. Confronting incestuous characters is not a means of drawing an obscure symbolic line between the civilized and the savages, but among citizens and non-citizens. In South Africa and the United States of America, where political fictions had defined the nation as a perfect family to justify the exclusion of non-white people from the community of citizens, « counter-fictions of incest » examine in provocative ways how citizenship and rights are articulated. I question the incest theme – forbidden desire or sexual violation– in novels from 1929 to 2005, by American writers such as W. Faulkner, T. Morrison, R. Ellison, G. Jones, Sapphire and by South African authors like D. Lessing, B. Head, A. Dangor, M. van Niekerk, and L. Rampolokeng. I outline the aesthetic and political evolution of the incest theme in novels written in those societies where community, nation and « race » were particularly interconnected, while simultaneously reflecting on the omnipresent reality of the crime of incest in all societies
Ndong, Ndong Yannick Martial. "Les écritures africaines de soi : 1950-2010 : du postcolonial au postracial ?" Thesis, Strasbourg, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014STRAC004/document.
Testo completoWe can identify a long autobiographical practice in Africa, if we go back to the Confessions of St. Augustine, and selfwriting has moreover developed in African languages, in pre-colonial and colonial times. At the initiative of anthropologists and Africanists, the first African autobiographies (often written by teachers or students) were collected, while autobiographical writing simultaneously emerged in the French African novel. With the anti-colonial struggle, memoirs were written by leading African politicians, which emphasized the reflexive dimension of African selfwritings. In the postcolonial era, autobiography tends to become more intellectual, oscillating between autobiographical and self-analytic projects. Through a predominantly french-and english speaking corpus, consisting of authors as diverse as Wole Soyinka, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Joseph Emmanuel Nana Appiah, William E. B. Du Bois, Léopold-Sédar Senghor, Lamine Gueye, Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Valentin Yves Mudimbe, Achille Mbembe, Célestin Monga, Barack Obama, Paulin Hountondji or Rasna Warah, our dissertation traces back the mutations of African selfwriting, from the colonial times to the post-colonial era, emphasizing the dialogues established between African authors and French Africanist thinkers, for whom autobiography was much more than a life story. In these literary historical and sociological perspectives, we borrow from Jerome Meizoz his notion of “posture” to study the esthetical, political and literary positions, of various writers and thinkers in African and Western literary fields. We also highlight how self-reflexivity occurs by confronting African self writings to some intellectual autobiographies produced by African-American thinkers and writers. This comparison allows a reflection on the "postcolonial posture" of our authors, and leads to a new problem : the post-racial project that runs through the racialist interpretations of history and identity that characterized many African ideologies such as Pan-Africanism and negritude. Ultimately relying on the idea of "postblackness" now in vogue in the United States, we strive to show that the postracial remains nevertheless a horizon more than a reality of African writings itself, the mid-twentieth century to the twenty-first century
Cariou, Gwennaëlle. ""Say it Loud !" : la création d'un contexte culturel noir à travers la fondation des musées africains américains". Paris 7, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA070037.
Testo completoThis thesis is examining the issues of the creation of a black cultural context in the USA through African-American museums founded during the second half of the 20th century. Those museums are the result of a long process within the black American community since the 19th century, at first with the establishment of a black culture (historical societies, art collections) which allowed then the creation of black exhibitions. Those exhibitions came out in a white dominating cultural context, especially with the setting of segregated exhibitions during national and international exhibitions in the USA, then with independent exhibitions. Those different exhibitions are the base of the first black museums founded in different American cities from the 1960s. The movement of creation of African American museums went on throughout the 20th century until today with the project of the National Museum of African American History and Culture scheduled to open in 2015. African American museums are presenting in a positive way the experience of African-Americans in the USA and their place in American history and culture. They are in general the only space in which this culture is displayed and show varied themes (sciences and techniques, art, religion, work) and historical periods (the Middle Passage and slavery, the Civil Rights movement)
Millot, Marie-Hélène. "Esclaves fugitifs et abolition durant la guerre de sécession aux Etats-Unis, 1861-1863". Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 3, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024PA030073.
Testo completoThis study is part of the trend of historiography in the United States interested in slave agency, by choosing an angle to answer a main question: how did the action of fugitive slaves exert an influence on the process of emancipation during the Civil War? This research focused on how the action of fugitives who made their way to the lines of the army and the ships of the navy had led, at the very beginning of the war, the executive branch and Republicans in Congress to develop strategies to emancipate some slaves out of military necessity. It provided a more detailed knowledge of the military contribution of fugitives, or contrabands, during amphibious operations, a contribution that was sometimes crucial. In Congress, Republicans were able to highlight these contributions, denounce commanders hostile to fugitives, and determine that it was necessary to incorporate emancipated slaves into military service. Emancipation was not only based on a moral principle, the Union was indebted to the fugitive slaves, in a degraded military context
Cisse, Ibrahima Ousmane. "La satire de la dictature dans les romans contemporains latino-américains et négro-africains d'expression française". Grenoble 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995GRE39034.
Testo completoMany political scientists perceived the recent history of africa as the exact replica of the political process in south america. Post-independent africa indeed experiences identical sociopolitical difficulties with latin american countries : social inequelities, tremendow debt, political subordination, army-controlled political power, etc. . . And those are signs of the failure of politics in both continent which generated a profuse production of literary works, espacially in the field of novel-writing where the dominant feature invariously comes out to be the military dictators. Every literature is the product and the image of the environnement in which it take rooks. This identity of inspiration is therefore not amazing, and such a community of fate has mather favoured the rise of what is called by some people a "thrid word literature". Somehow, novelists in both contients declaim against established military power and demigrate dictators, for they see their works as a contribution to the life of their respective societies. Moreaver, they continually adopt similar literary attitudes. Indeed, if sembene ousmaner or ferdinand oyono make you think of zola or balzac, it is their latin american countes ports that the 1980 ies' african prose weiters take up
Barroso-Fontanel, Marlène. "Toni Morrison et l'écriture de l'indicible : minorations, fragmentations et lignes de fuite". Thesis, Université Clermont Auvergne (2017-2020), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019CLFAL003.
Testo completoToni Morrison’s writing aims at giving their voices back to those who were deprived of words. As a committed writer, Toni Morrison wants to highlight the central role of the black minority in the History of the United States. She then offers a new version of History as she rewrites it through her historical trilogy comprising her novels Beloved, Jazz and Paradise, to which can be added her second novel, Sula, where the seeds of the rewriting of History can already be found. Through the analysis of these four novels, the objective of this doctoral thesis is to excavate the genealogy of the unspeakable in Toni Morrison’s work, and to analyze the dynamic relationship between minoration and writing for an author who’s « insisted – insisted ! – upon being called a black woman novelist. » Women play a central part in the four novels we are studying because, to the racial minoration that already marginalizes African-Americans in the American society must be added for black women the sexual minoration which turns them into a mere body-object. But this double minoration, and the fragmentation it leads to, become in Toni Morrison’s work “lines of flight”, according to Gilles Deleuze’s terminology, which (de-)construct her writing. Minoration is therefore no longer to be understood as subtraction but as creation. Thus, Toni Morrison draws in her texts the lines of flight of creation which leak out of the page towards the outside of language where one can hear the desire for resistance and survival of the minor
Cras, Pierre. "Archétypes, caricatures et stéréotypes noirs du cinéma d'animation américain du XXe siècle (1907-1975)". Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA153.
Testo completoThis thesis focuses on the notions of archetypes, caricatures and stereotypes as well as their application to black characters in twentieth-century American animated films. In 1907, the very first animated film depicting a black character, “Coon”, was screened. “Coon” came from a long tradition of pejorative depictions that targeted African Americans and defined them down as “others” and “inferiors”. The first regular examples of these representations emerged in American comic strips and were drawn by cartoonists who soon became “animators”. A large part of the ideology and physical representations leading to the creation of these characters was inspired by pseudo-scientific theories that sanctioned black people “inferiority”, graphically and ideologically in the name of pseudo-sciences, including first and foremost physiognomy and phrenology, which first gained influence in Europe before reaching the United States. Vaudeville and Blackface Minstrelsy performances – popular shows that lampooned Black people and were performed by white actors in make-up from the end of the nineteenth century to the 1960s – also played a significant role in the creation of black otherness. The black characters in animated films were a reflection of these three cultural influences and remained unchanged until the 1940s. The negative depictions of African Americans in animated films began to evolve slowly when the United States entered World War II. Slow changes were perceptible through the use of bebop music in such films, although the vast majority of those films remained full of caricatures of Black people. Irrevocable changes rose in the post-war period, from old caricatures to new representations. Increasing demands by African Americans for equal rights created an ambiguity between their integrationist aspirations and the remaining visual traces going back to the period of slavery. The gradual legal gains achieved through their fight in the Civil Rights and Black Power movements led to a new televisual and cinematic imagery, which showed more positive sides of Blackness, despite the persistence of a conformist tone, sometimes out of touch with African American reality. The most faithful reflections of African American experience ultimately came from underground animated movies in the 1970s, in which prostitutes and hustlers added to a new social subtext
Ivol, Ambre. "Relectures des générations intellectuelles aux Etats-Unis : la vie et l’œuvre de Howard Zinn ( 1922- )". Thesis, Paris 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA030121/document.
Testo completoHoward Zinn’s life and work embodies contradictory dynamics. Though himself from a generation which came of age during the Great Depression and World War Two, he became a leading figure of the New Left as well as a representative of the new social history. He indeed rose to prominence as a public intellectual through his involvement in the social movements of the 1960s, while remaining influenced by the Weltanschauung of his own times. Far from being atypical for his age group, his trajectory sheds new light on the collective behavior of this generation. Indeed, it points to the possibility of going beyond a historiography which has been largely informed by specific cultural identities. By moving away from an approach too narrowly ideological, the study of Howard Zinn’s life and work will offer a more inclusive approach to generational issues in the United States
Tchamitchian, Raphaëlle. "Dramaturgie / jazz. Le théâtre de Suzan-Lori Parks ˸ poétique et expérience créatrice". Thesis, Paris 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA030038.
Testo completoThis dissertation in Theatre Studies aims to theorize the tension between “drama / jazz” through the works of African American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. Born in 1963, Suzan- Lori Parks is as famous in the United States as she is little known in France. Informed by the memory of slavery and the African slave trade, her theatre dis(re)members History to reverse the dominant discourse, make a new story and provide reparation to the living and the dead. By approaching her writing through jazz, we take into account the “double consciousness” that is constitutive of her poetics, and the anthropological, historical and political issues it raises. In her theatre, jazz is not only a form of music, but also a way of looking at the world, a cluster of poetic conduits and an organic presence that sets the writing in motion from within. From this paradoxical presence/absence what emerges is not a model but instead a group of converging lines of flight. Liquidity and fugitivity appear to be key jazz-shaped elements of a poetics of mutability. This poetics is linked to the creative experience of the playwright, which in turn gives birth to a creative experience for the spectator during performance. In short, the task is to understand the ways jazz affects theatre to the point of producing a new kind of theatre
Mahéo, Olivier. "« Divided we stand » ˸ tensions et clivages au sein des mouvements de libération noire, du New Deal au Black Power". Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018USPCA113.
Testo completoIn this dissertation I hope to contribute to the criticism of the dominant narrative that has long been at the center of the historiography of the black liberation movement. Different consensus-building mechanisms, both external and internal to the movement, masked its tensions and tended to delineate it exclusively around race. This narrative artificially unified the black mi-nority by mostly obliterating the movement’s class divisions as well as the gender, generation-al, and spatial tensions, that existed prior to the 1960s, and by limiting its objectives to the demand for legal rights. Furthermore, McCarthyism and the triumph of the liberal consensus marginalized the black left and relegated women to the background while politically radical currents and the demands of women were also erased from the historical narrative. This nar-row vision of the black liberation movement was integrated into the US national narrative at the expense of the discordant voices of radicalization and Black Nationalism of the post-1966 era. This work adopts the perspective of a long civil rights movement by focusing on the con-tinuities that linked various generations, from the 1930s to the 1970s, thus going beyond the traditional and the spatial divides, which oppose an essentialized regional divide between North and South in the dominant narrative to focus instead on the diversity of local movements The sources used focus on autobiographies and on photography, making it possible to account for the differences in point of view between local activists and their national leaders, from the years of the New Deal to the Black Power era. Militant autobiographies constitute counter-narratives that challenge the master narrative and reveal political tensions and minority projects, including those of the black left; they also point to gendered, generational and spatial divides as well as to economic and feminist demands, and they show the international dimen-sion of the black liberation movement. Mainstream photography participated in the erasure of the tensions in the movement through the iconization of famous figures. Still, in spite of McCarthyism, the themes and ideas of the black left are visible through their own images. With such sources, this doctoral dissertation attempts to give voice to the anonymous leaders of the movement, to those whose ideas have been masked or distorted and whose testimony testifies to the complexity of a struggle where class, gender and race both concur and compete
De, Wagter Caroline. "Mouths on fire with songs: negotiating multi-ethnic identities on the contemporary North american stage". Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210237.
Testo completoThrough a detailed cross-cultural approach of the English Canadian and American minority theatrical production, my thesis aims to identify the thematic and aesthetic contributions of multi-ethnic North American drama to the Anglo-American tradition of the 20th century. My study examines North American drama from the vantage points of African, Asian, and Native communities from 1972 until today. Relying on a number of case studies, my research opened up new avenues for rethinking the notions of hybridity and identity in relation to the postcolonial community/nation.
Doctorat en Langues et lettres
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Curie, Fabien. "La NAACP et le Parti communiste face à la question des droits civiques, 1929-1941". Phd thesis, Université de Strasbourg, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01059773.
Testo completoMunoz, Cabrera Patricia. "Journeying: narratives of female empowerment in Gayl Jones's and Toni Morrison's ficton". Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210259.
Testo completoThrough comparative analysis of eight fictional works, I explore the writers’ idea of female freedom and emancipation, the structures of power affecting the transition from oppressed towards liberated subject positions, and the literary techniques through which the authors facilitate these seminal trajectories.
My research addresses a corpus comprised of three novels and one book-long poem by Gayl Jones, as well as four novels by Toni Morrison. These two writers emerge in the US literary scene during the 1970s, one of the decades of the second black women’s renaissance (1970s, 1980s). This period witnessed unprecedented developments in US black literature and feminist theorising. In the domain of African American letters, it witnessed the emergence of a host of black women writers such as Gayl Jones and Toni Morrison. This period also marks a turning point in the reconfiguration of African American literature, as several unknown or misplaced literary works by pioneering black women writers were discovered, shifting the chronology of African American literature.
Moreover, the second black women's renaissance marks a paradigmatic development in black feminist theorising on womanhood and subjectivity. Many black feminist scholars and activists challenged what they perceived to be the homogenising female subject conceptualised by US white middle-class feminism and the androcentricity of the subject proclaimed by the Black Aesthetic Movement. They claimed that, in focusing solely on gender and patriarchal oppression, white feminism had overlooked the salience of the race/class nexus, while focus by the Black Aesthetic Movement on racism had overlooked the salience of gender and heterosexual discrimination.
In this dissertation, I discuss the works of Gayl Jones and Toni Morrison in the context of seminal debates on the nature of the female subject and the racial and gender politics affecting the construction of empowered subjectivities in black women's fiction.
Through the metaphor of journeying towards female empowerment, I show how Gayl Jones and Toni Morrison engage in imaginative returns to the past in an attempt to relocate black women as literary subjects of primary importance. I also show how, in the works selected for discussion, a complex idea of modern female subjectivities emerges from the writers' re-examination of the oppressive material and psychological circumstances under which pioneering black women lived, the common practice of sexual exploitation with which they had to contend, and the struggle to assert the dignity of their womanhood beyond the parameters of the white-defined “ideological discourse of true womanhood” (Carby, 1987: 25).
Doctorat en philosophie et lettres, Orientation langue et littérature
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Onanga, Ndjila Blanchard. "Barack Obama et les organisations de lutte pour les droits civiques : héritages, tensions, adaptations (2004-2010)". Phd thesis, Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00990183.
Testo completoKoné, Séverine. "Identité des Africains-Américains d'Atlanta : entre mémoire et histoire". Thèse, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/6298.
Testo completoSince twenty years, we familiarize ourselves with name Africans-Americans to indicate the American Blacks. However, since its appearance, some people thought that this name would not be accepted by group members. However, upon of their arrival on the American continent, the Blacks identified themselves as Africans and this reference reappeared in the twentieth century. Through interviews, carried out in Atlanta, in March 2001, we analyse the part played by the collective memory and the social memory on their identity and we interpret the speech of the individuals about the new name introduced in 1989. The thesis is an analysis historical and anthropological of discourses of identity among African Americans of Atlanta in 2001. We identify two axes in the identification process which roots go in the nineteenth century. The awareness of the single situation of the Africans in America has always oriented identity and « … The Negro protest movement in two ways and has led in two directions simultaneously: wanting out and wanting in…» (Joanne Grant 1968, 1983, 1986 : 9).
Trépanier, Alexandre. "Le mouvement pour les droits civiques afro-américains au cours de la seconde guerre mondiale : stratégies électorales, politiques et économiques". Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11725.
Testo completoThe Second World War was a period of opportunities for African-Americans. The Black leadership, aware of the favorable context, tried to exploit it to the fullest. Internal migrations from the South to the industrial centers of the North and West were facilitated by the war economy. Participating in this exodus, Blacks extirpated themselves from the politically constrictive region that often deprived them of their voting rights. By the end of the war, African-American leaders were able to wield a new weapon to pressure political parties and the government: the electoral weight of Blacks in northern States. The war was also characterized by heightened black activism. The ideals of democracy and liberty defended by the U.S. provided a new legitimacy to African-American yearnings. Ultimately, the full-employment that resulted from the war allowed Blacks to improve their economic status while their leaders were actively working to secure these gains in the long term.
Michaud-Mastoras, Loïc. "Le blues et le jazz au service de la révolution? : les positions des communistes américains blancs à l’égard de la musique noire et son utilisation à des fins d’agit-prop durant l’entre-deux-guerres (1919-1941)". Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/13436.
Testo completoIn 1936, the American Music League published Negro Songs of Protest, a book of songs collected by the left-wing folklorist Lawrence Gellert. In 1938 and 1939, with the financial support of the communist movement, the producer John Hammond was able to present From Spirituals to Swing at Carnegie Hall, New York, two concerts that celebrated the contribution of African American music in American history. Moreover, the From Spirituals to Swing concerts broke the color line, by letting Blacks and Whites play music together on stage and sit together in the audience. During the same years, jazz singer Billie Holiday enjoyed a monstrous success with her anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit” at Café Society, the first integrated club and radical left-wing cabaret in New York. It was the time of the Popular Front; a time when the communist movement had a great influence on American society and when the organized left exerted unprecedented power over mass culture. Starting with a discussion of the revolutionary potential of African American music and trying to understand what social movements do with culture, this essay traces the developing point of view of white American communists toward the commercial explosion and growing popularity of blues and jazz music in USA during the interwar years. It asks the question of why there was so little mention of jazz and blues in Party organs during the 1920’s and early 1930’s , it explores the changing attitudes of the Old Left toward popular culture and suggests that the American communist movement used blues and jazz music for agitprop, during the last of the three main political phases of the Communist Party of America (CPUSA) – the colorblind class (1919-1928); the Black Belt Nation thesis (1928-1935); and the Popular Front (1935-1940).
Dufour-Lauzon, Émilie. "La genèse de The Souls of Black Folk : le chapitre initial de la vie intellectuelle de W. E. B. Du Bois, 1885-1903". Thèse, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/13769.
Testo completoWilliam Edward Burghardt Du Bois published The Souls of Black Folk in 1903. Du Bois pursued three different goals when he wrote his masterpiece. First, he argued that Booker T. Washington’s strategy of trading political rights for economic opportunities was not the best way to improve the condition of African Americans. Second, Du Bois highlighted the accomplishments and distinctive abilities of his people in order to undermine the pretended biological and moral superiority of Whites that often justified the pushback against equal rights for all. Third, Du Bois wished to inspire Americans to become better citizens by compelling his fellow countrymen to embrace the Founding Fathers’ ideals and higher moral standards. The writing of The Souls of Black Folk marks an important shift in Du Bois’ intellectual life because he recants the accommodationist rhetoric of his youth during this period. Some of the ideas introduced in The Souls of Black Folk can be traced back to the influence of Alexander Crummell and of Du Bois’ teachers at the University of Berlin. However, it is Du Bois’s field work in the black community of Philadelphia that made him realize both the degree of the inequalities faced by African Americans and the fact that hard work and enthusiasm are not enough to overcome such significant disparities.
Hamdi, Houda. "The dialogic and the carnivalesque in Beloved and Jazz by Toni Morrison". Thèse, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/7979.
Testo completoBrassard, Alice. "Transmission transatlantique de savoirs en sciences naturelles d’Amérique française au XVIIIe siècle; Étude comparative des écrits de Kalm (Canada), de Barrère (Guyane française), de Le Page du Pratz (Louisiane) et de Dumont de Montigny (Louisiane)". Thèse, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/23765.
Testo completoFollowing their colonization of America in the 17th and 18th centuries, the French drew up inventories for the resources of the occupied or coveted territory. Being able to describe all this wealth, natural history thus became the ultimate colonial knowledge and one of the central cogs of the French Colonial Machine. Also, the textual legacy of this activity is considerable and various points of view are taken into account: an enterprising settler, for example, will not see Louisiana’s resources in the same way as a travelling metropolitan official or a botanist on assignment. However, the colonial perspective is widely spread and all these texts, or almost all of them, are evidence of the appropriation of American plants, minerals and animals. The position of indigenous people and slaves – whether of indigenous or African-American origin – as actors in the process of knowledge creation depends on the context and the author’s stance. This thesis focuses on a small number of compelling texts from the natural history corpus of the French mainland colonies in America. Four authors who worked in or visited Canada (Kalm), French Guiana (Barrère) and Louisiana (Le Page du Pratz and Dumont de Montigny) are studied in depth. We first examine the different contexts of knowledge acquisition. Subsequently, we analyze the colonial resources inventories available at that time and how the sources are managed. Lastly, we conclude by looking at how these naturalist writers transmit to their European readers their newly acquired knowledge and the impact that their work will have.