| Titre : | The search of home in Thomas king’s Medicine River |
| Auteurs : | T. Djellouli, Auteur ; P/LLA Dr. Hayat MOKEDDEM, 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, 2024-2025 |
| Format : | 40p / 27cm |
| Accompagnement : | CD |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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Table of content
Declaration of Originality .......................................................................................................... II Dedication ................................................................................................................................. III Acknowledgements .................................................................................................................. IV Abstract ...................................................................................................................................... V General Introduction .............................................................................................................. VIII Chapter One: ............................................................................................................................... 5 Theoretical and Literary Context ................................................................................................ 5 1.1 Defining Home: Place, Displacement, and Reconstruction ......................................... 6 1.2 Identity, Hybridity, and the Third Space .......................................................................... 7 1.3 Memory and Story: Reclaiming the Past Through Narrative .......................................... 7 1.4 Indigenous Literary Theory and Decolonial Approaches ................................................. 8 1.5 Thomas King’s Narrative Style and Cultural Politics....................................................... 8 1.6 Home in Indigenous Literary Traditions .......................................................................... 9 1.7 Home as Resistance and Survivance................................................................................. 9 1.8 Thomas King’s Position in the Literary and Critical Landscape .................................... 11 Conclusion: ........................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter Two: ............................................................................................................................ 13 Will’s Return Home as Personal and Cultural Reconnection ................................................... 13 2.1 Will’s Personal Motivations for Return .......................................................................... 14 2.2 Orphanhood, Absence, and Identity Fragmentation ....................................................... 15 2.3 Community as the Site of Reconnection ......................................................................... 16 2.4 Home as a Site of Memory and Storytelling ................................................................... 17 2.5 Gender, Family, and Reconstructed Belonging .............................................................. 19 2.6 The Land as Emotional and Cultural Anchor ................................................................. 20 2.7 Comparative Perspectives: Return in Other Indigenous Narratives ............................... 21 2.8 Humor as a Strategy of Homecoming ............................................................................. 22 2.9 Home as Resistance to Colonial Narratives .................................................................... 23 2.11 Conclusion .................................................................................................................... 24 Chapter three............................................................................................................................. 25 VII Storytelling, Memory, and Community .................................................................................... 25 3.1 The Narrative Structure: A Non-Linear, Oral Style ....................................................... 27 3.2 Harlen Bigbear: The Storyteller as Cultural Anchor ...................................................... 28 3.3 Memory as a Tool for Belonging and Healing ............................................................... 30 3.4 Storytelling as Resistance and Cultural Survival ............................................................ 31 3.5 Conclusion ...................................................................................................................... 33 Chapter Four: Resistance, Belonging, and Redefining Home. ...... 34 4.1 Challenging Colonial Notions of Space and Belonging ................................................. 35 4.2 Humor and Voice as Resistance ..................................................................................... 36 4.3 Community as Everyday Resistance ............................................................................... 38 4.4 Home as a Collective and Relational Process ................................................................. 39 4.5 Conclusion ...................................................................................................................... 41 General Conclusion .................................................................................................................. 42 References ................................................................................................................................ 46 Summary ................................................................................................................................... 48 Summary ............................................................................................................................... 49 |
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