الرسائل والأطروحات الأكاديمية
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يسمح هذه المجموعة الأعمال الأكاديمية بالحفاظ والأرشفة واسترجاع والوصول الى كل الرسائل الجامعية وأطروحات الدكتوراه المجازة في جامعة الجزائر 2 ؛ وتشمل كل تخصصات الجامعة الحالية والمستقبلية
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Item Womanism, agency and social rogress in Ama Ata Aidoo's our sister killjoy and changes(University of algiers2 Abu El Kacem Saad Allah جامعة الجزائر 2 أبو القاسم سعد الله, 2014) Matmer, Dalila; Bensemane, M'hamed (Directeur de thèse)This dissertation is concerned with the issue of feminism in three important novels belonging to post-colonial literature, and rarely studied in conjunction. By exploring feminine enunciations in the works of the African writer Ama Ata Aidoo'sOur Sister Killjoy, or Reflections from a Black-eyed Squint andChanges: A Love Storyand the African-American Alice Walker's The Color Purple, I examine the stylistic and thematic features which reflect the common concerns of African and African-American women writers by focusing on the way the characters, themes and women's issues are dealt with in their fiction. This study postulates that even though the lives of the African and African-American women are shaped by different historical forces and social traditions, situations and issues intersect -as revealed by Aidoo and Walker's writings -because of a common background of patriarchal domination. Through the course of this study, an attempt is made to draw a comparison between the black women portrayed in the literary works of the two writers, how African female protagonists have fared, as compared to their African-American counterparts. Furthermore, the various issues affecting these protagonists' lives are analyzed, insisting on the specificities of race, class, nationality and sexualities that intersect with gender. In the process of critically discussing the novels, the emphasis islaid on the socio-cultural and historical factors, such as patriarchy, slavery, racism and sexism, as being the causes of the resentment or dissent noted in the females' behaviors. Then, this study examines the extent to which these constraints succeed in silencing and marginalizing the 'subaltern' women by reducing them to an inferior status. I also examine their degree of resistance in the novels, and consider to what extent the female protagonists react and reject the silence imposed by these dominant ideologies.Item A POSTCOLONIAL ECOCRITICAL READING OF FOUR SELECTED NOVELS BY NAIPAUL, COETZEE, ANTHONY AND GHOSH(University of algiers2 Abu El Kacem Saad Allah جامعة الجزائر 2 أبو القاسم سعد الله, 2021) BENDJEMIL, Khawla; Zeghar, Dalila (Directeur de thèse)This thesis examines the element of nature in postcolonial unnamed African country, South Africa, Trinidad and China in V. S. Naipaul’s A Bend in the River (1979), John Maxwell Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians (1980), Michael Anthony’s Bright Road to El Dorado (1983), and Amitav Ghosh's River of Smoke (2011). The study also examines the environment that the characters inhabit (village, town or city), and the role of the colonizer in determining the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized.Item Cognitive Dissonance in Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers(University of Algiers 2 Abou El Kacem Saadallah جامعة الجزائر 02 أبو القاسم سعد الله, 2019) Souhali, Hichem; Zeghar, Dalila (Directeur de thèse)This dissertation studies cognitive dissonance in Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers. The chosen novel is often labeled as a ‘Fascist Utopia’; an oxymoron that sums up the essence of its tone. The aim is to detect and analyze the scope of dissonance within Heinlein’s narrative and to extrapolate it to his readership. For this purpose, I propose a multidisciplinary approach with two major orientations: close reading (a context- dependent psychonarratological angle) and distant reading (context-free sentiment analysis of his readership’s responses). The close reading section comprises a review of the writer’s biography: his life, works, and political commitment. This part is combined with a socio-historical study of the writer’s anchorage. Thus, Heinlein is revealed as a complex writer with an undeniable craft in sending mixed signals to his readership. On the other hand, the distant reading section purports to place the readers at the center of the thesis’ concern. Hence, cognitive dissonance is envisaged as a transmissible condition – from author to reader. At the level of the theoretical scaffolding, I set a wide range of theory running the gamut from new historicism to cognitive psychology- passing by reception theories, readers’ response theory, and psychonarratology. The works of Darko Suvin, Frederic Jameson, Leon Festinger, Dixon & Bertolussi and Franco Moretti are used to elaborate a ground base theoretical and methodological propositionItem Alienation and Women's Identity In Selected Novels by Bessie Head and Buchi Emecheta(University of Algiers 2 Abou El Kacem Saadallah, 2020) Sail, Amina; Ait Hamou, Louisa (Directeur de thèse)This thesis attempts to investigate the theme of alienation and African women's identity in Bessie Head's The Cardinals (1993) and A Question of Power (1974), in addition to Buchi Emecheta's Gwendolen (1989) and Second Class Citizen (1974). It aims at: studying the concept of alienation in the novels, explaining the factors that create this sense of estrangement in the female characters, and finally exploring ways to overcome alienation and reach self-assertion. Accordingly, this study proposes three facets of alienation: social, racial and sexual. Society with its conformism can lead to the marginalization of women who fail to fit its standards. Using Social-psychology, the alienating social processes such as conformism will be studied, in addition to exploring the states or syndromes of alienation including isolation and withdrawal from society.