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Item THE DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WITH ALGERIA 1785-1797(University of Algiers 2. Faculty of Letters and Languages, 2013) Belabdelouahab-Fernini, Linda; Deramchia, Yamina (Directeur de thèse)The diplomatic relations between the United States of America and Algiers go back to the late eighteenth century. While the United States was then emerging as a fragile independent country, the Regency of Algiers had been the leading power of the Barbary States years earlier. The Muslim component of the latter was inextricably linked to the history of the United States before, during and after its Revolution. This research studies the diplomatic relations between the two countries in the period lasting from 1785, when two American ships were captured by Algerian privateers, to the return of the American captives to Philadelphia in 1797. In an effort to counterbalance the prejudiced literature following the 9/11 2001 events stereotyping Algiers as a pirate state, this research attempts to uncover the often overlooked context and consequences of the episode between 1785 and 1797. The context of war that existed between the two countries led to far reaching consequences. This thesis reached a set of conclusions. First, through its two offensives, the Regency of Algiers was at war with the United States until the signature of the treaty of Amity and Peace of 1795. This war occurred within the scope of the laws that prevailed and governed the different nations at that time. Second, the Regency of Algiers was not a pirate state. It was a privateering sovereign state recognized by the international community with which it had signed several treaties. Third, the 1795 American-Algerian vi Treaty is unprecedented in so many aspects. It is a formal recognition by the Regency of Algiers of the independence of the United States. It is the first treaty America signed in a foreign language with Algiers. It is also the sole treaty in which the United States pledged to pay an annual tax to a foreign country in exchange for prisoners. This research work also underlines the literary and political legacy of this war. While the former is expressed through the proliferation of early American captivity narratives, the latter embodies the inspiration for a new American Constitution, the birth of the U.S. Navy, and the shaping of the early American foreign policy.Item Self and Other in the Works of African American Novelists during the Black Renaissance and Algerian Novelists during the Algerian War of Independence(University of algiers2 Abu El Kacem Saad Allah جامعة الجزائر 2 أبو القاسم سعد الله, 2015) KACED, ASSIA; Deramchia, Yamina (Directeur de thèse)Through the present research work, we aim at confronting four contemporary post-colonial writers, who are, Jean Toomer and Zora Neale Hurston from the United States of America, and Kateb Yacine and Assia Djebar from Algeria with notions of representation, identity, and culture. While Jean Toomer and Zora Neale Hurston wrote their novels at the time when the African American people suffered from political, economic and cultural inequities between the white and the black people in America, Toomer’s Cane in 1922 and Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God in 1937 ; both Kateb Yacine and Assia Djebar wrote their novels during the period of Algerian colonization, Nedjma in 1955, and Les enfants du nouveau monde In fact, this thesis operates on the principle that there are recurrent, common parameters existing within the two peoples, Africa American and Algerian, and which stem from shared historical, political and cultural referents, those of peoples deprived of their identities and self-esteem by colonizing and oppressing powers. The writers we explore in the present work bridge racial, cultural, and linguistic divides in facing the same prejudices and stereotypes that have ‘Othered’ them. They adopt the same methods in reconstructing the Self that has been negated by the colonizing Other. In both cases, the people oppressed by a superior power are depicted in stereotypical terms, their culture belittled, and their identity blurred. in 1962. Through the present research work, we aim at analyzing the thematic correspondences between the two pairs of writes, particularly in the way they conceive of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’