Jane E. Evans

Accomodating Arabic: A Look at Malika Mokeddem's Fiction

Jane E. Evans — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 12:15:55 PDT

Abstract: Tactical Silence in the Novels of Malika Mokeddem

Jane E. Evans — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:47:50 PDT

Michel de Certeau's model of strategies and tactics, applied to a postcolonial assessment of both Algerian literature in French as well as Algerian women's sterotyped silence, has prompted this exploration of how the manipulation of silence may be used to challenge a gender-differentiated power system. This book considers the effects of practical silence on the lives of Malika Mokeddem's female protagonists in the following novels: (1990), Siècle des sauterelles> (1992), (1993), Rêves et des assassins> (1995), lézarde> (1998), (2001), (2003), (2006), and < Je dois tout à ton oubli> (2008).

Reconfiguring the Self: A Study of Latifa Ben Mansour's L'Année de l'éclipse through Political, Psychological, and Stylistic Lenses

Jane E. Evans — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:19:30 PDT

Re-inscribing the Body: a Study of Leïla Marouane's Le Châtiment des hypocrites

Jane E. Evans — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:26:15 PDT

Masculinities in War: René-Nicolas Ehni's Algérie roman

Jane E. Evans — Sun, 03 May 2009 14:32:40 PDT

René-Nicolas Ehni, controversial social figure and critic in France since the 1960s and literary figure especially known for his plays and novels, characterizes his French military service during the Algerian war for independence in his autobiographical Algérie roman, published in 2002. In the novel, the first-person narrator-protagonist intersperses his descriptions of the struggle with scenes from his past and present denoting family genealogies and homosexual relationships. Through a narration that is itself marked by violence, including digressions, rhetorical figures and discontinuous prose, Algérie roman strongly affirms the significance of masculine friendships of every kind.

The Quasi-confessional Autobiography: Mort d'un silence, by Clémence Boulouque

Jane E. Evans — Sun, 03 May 2009 14:20:49 PDT

Since 2003, when Clémence Boulouque's memoir, Mort d'un silence, was published, its author has written in a variety of genres, including novels, articles, and film scripts. Mort d'un silence, her first autobiographical work, interests the reader for several reasons: it revisits Judge Gilles Boulouque's suicide in December 1990 and the consequences of this act for his family, especially his thirteen-year-old daughter, Clémence; it recalls the political climate in France during the late 1980s, when Gilles Boulouque had already begun to fight terrorism; and it illustrates the tension between disclosure and concealment as its twenty-six-year-old narrator describes her passage from childhood to adulthood following her father's death.

Widowhood, Motherhood, Selfhood in Latifa Ben Mansour's L'année de l'éclipse

Jane E. Evans — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:27:42 PDT

According to Dr. Joan Borysenko, a woman's life proceeds according to predictable steps: one expects to rear one's children before being faced with the death of one's spouse and subsequent widowhood. However, in ultraconservative Algeria, where armed Islamist radicals during the past decade and a half have incited violence against ordinary citizens, especially women, the standard model of a woman's life does not necessarily apply. Latifa Ben Mansour, expatriate Algérienne, psychoanalyst, and contemporary francophone author, has made the Algerian woman's plight under ultra-right-wing rule the subject of many of her writings. This paper will discuss the themes of her novel, L'année de l'éclipse, through political, psychological, and stylistic lenses.

The Fairy Tale Revisited in Malika Mokeddem's Le siècle des sauterelles

Jane E. Evans — Sun, 03 May 2009 13:17:20 PDT

Expatriate Algerian author Malika Mokeddem has modified literary genres throughout her fiction of the 20th and 21st centuries. For example, her second novel, Le siècle des sauterelles, combines elements of history and fantasy. This paper analyzes the ways in which the above novel containing fairy tale elements departs from strict fairy tale code. Les Mille et une nuits, and works by Perrault, Aulnoy, and Propp will provide the theoretical bases of my arguments.

Immigrants from the North: Woonsocket, Rhode Island Revisited

Jane E. Evans — Sat, 02 May 2009 15:35:22 PDT

This paper revisits Franco-Canadian immigration into the United States across the northern border at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. With the aid of film clips from Les Tisserands du pouvoir, a film depicting the immigrant contribution to the New England textile industry through the saga of one family, one's understanding of expatriation, relocation, and assimilation will be broadened.

The Soldier in French Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries

Jane E. Evans — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:31:22 PDT

This article traces the image of the soldier in representative French iterary works of the 20th and 21st centuries while relating the discussion to the development of French nationhood. Barbusse's Le Feu, Chamson's Le Puits des miracles, Vercors' Le Silence de la mer, and Ehni's Algérie roman will all be considered within the sociopolitical frameworks described by Weber and Bhabha.

A Memoir of Passage: Mort d'un silence, by Clémence Boulouque

Jane E. Evans — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:19:05 PDT

Since 2003, when Clémence Boulouque's memoir, Mort d'un silence, was published, its author has written in a variety of genres, including novels, articles, and film scripts. Mort d'un silence interests the reader for several reasons: it revisits Judge Gilles Boulouque's suicide in December 1990 and the consequences of this act for his family, especially his thirteen-year-old daughter, Clémence; it recalls the political climate in France during the late 1980s, when Gilles Boulouque had already begun to fight terrorism; and it illustrates the tension between disclosure and concealment as its twenty-six-year-old narrator describes her passage from childhood to adolescence and from young to more mature adulthood.

"Un écrivain en évolution": entretien avec Fatima Gallaire

Jane E. Evans — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:09:21 PDT

Fatima Gallaire, renommée pour ses drames contrastant le traditionalisme et le modernisme algériens, évolue comme écrivain. Non seulement elle se dédie de nouveau à la nouvelle, le genre qu'elle écrivait lors de ses études universitaires, mais elle s'occupe aussi des futurs écrivains en offrant des ateliers d'écriture internationaux. Cet entretien expose les activités récentes de Mme Gallaire et souligne encore l'importance de cet auteur. Denise Brahimi, professeur retraité de littérature comparée, aide à placer les écrits de Mme Gallaire dans leurs cadres littéraires et historiques.