| Titre : | The Perpetual Search of Identity in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night |
| Auteurs : | Guerroudj Nour El Houda, Auteur ; P/LLA Dr. Djamila MEHDAOUI, Directeur de thèse |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | SAIDA [ALGERIE] : 1- University of Saida - Dr. Moulay Tahar / Faculty of Letters, Languages and Arts Department of English Language and Literature, 2020-2021 |
| Format : | 66p / 27cm |
| Accompagnement : | CD |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Note de contenu : |
Declaration of Originality......................................................................................... ..... I
Dedications ................................................................................................................. II Acknowledgements ................................................................................................... III Abstract ...................................................................................................................... IV Table of Contents ......................................................................................................... V General Introduction ..................................................................................................... 1 Chapter one: Between the Polarities of Suppression and Oppression. 1. 1Introduction .................................................................................................... 14 1.2 Postcolonialism ............................................................................................... 14 1.3 Postcolonial Theory ……………………………………………………………15 1.3.1. Edward Said ………………………………………………….15 1.4 postcolonial Feminist Theory ........................................................................... 16 1.4.1. Ania Loomba ............................................................................. 16 1.4.2. Gayatri Chakravotry Spivak………………………………………16 1.5 Postcolonial Literature .................................................................................... 17 1.6 Postcolonial Themes ........................................................................................ 17 1.7 Postcolonial Identity…………………………………………………………...18 1.8 West- Indian Identity………………………………………………………..…20 1.9 West- Indian Culture………………………………………………….………..21 1.9.1.Culture Definition ……………………………………………..…21 1.9.2. West-Indian’s Culture……………………………………………22 1.10 Trauma and Identity…………………………………………………………..22 1.11. Indo-Caribbean Feminism……………………………………………………23 1.12. Conclusion.. ………………………………………………………………….24 Chapter Two: Between the Historical and Literary Agenda. 2.1. Introduction ................................................................................................... 27 2.2 West Indies and British conquest .................................................................... 28 2.3. Labour for the Plantations ............................................................................... 28 2.4. Women Slaves ................................................................................................ 30 2.5. Exploitation and Abuse ................................................................................... 30 2.6 Exile and Belonging ........................................................................................ 31 2.7 West-Indian Literature……………………………………………………….....33 2.8 Immigration ..................................................................................................... 34 2.8.1. West-Indian Immigrant Writers .................................................. 35 2.8.2. Caribbean Writers and Exile ....................................................... 36 2.8.3 Migrant Literature ....................................................................... 37 2.9 Conclusion ........................................................................................................ 38 Chapter Three: The Quest of an Authentic Identity VI 3.1. Introduction ................................................................................................... 40 3.2. Shani Mootoo’s Artistic Talents...................................................................... 40 3.3 Echoes from Cereus Blooms at Night…………………………………………..41 3.3.1 The Cereus as a Title……………………………………………..…….42 3.3.2. The Setting and the Trope of Settling ................................................ 42 3.4. Characters ....................................................................................................... .45 3.4.1 Mala as the Heart of Homelessness……………………………………...,,45 3.4.2 The Shared Status of the Periphery and Ambiguity………………………46 3.4.3 Chandin Ramchandin as a Coin of a Colonized/Colonizer …………….48 3.5 The Subalterns’ Attempts of Checking a Voice ………………......................49 3.5.1. Migratin Subjects…………………………………………………... ….49 3.5.2 Garden of Paradise…………………………………………………. ….50 3.5.3. Search of Identity .................................................................................. 51 3.6 Narration as a Mode of Fighting……………………………………………………52 3.7 Symbols……………………………………………………………………………..53 3.7.1Nature……………………………………………………………………..…..53 3.7.2. The Birds of Freedom .................................................................................. 54 3.8. Conclusion ..................................................................................................... 54 General Conclusion ............................................................................................... 56 Bibliography ......................................................................................................... 60 |
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