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A l'intersection de la littérature comparée, des études de genre et des études postcoloniales, cette thèse vise à étudier le renouveau du Bildungsroman chez trois auteurs français contemporains : Azouz Begag, Farida Belghoul et Leïla Sebbar. Ce travail s'intéresse aux modalités des tensions sociales dont les protagonistes font l'expérience pendant leurs interactions avec la société dominante. Nous nous efforçons de comprendre comment ces trois auteurs déplacent les conventions du genre littéraire du Bildungsroman traditionnel pour négocier les obstacles sociaux qu’ils rencontrent et pour ménager des espaces limitrophes vivables dans et au-delà des espaces imposés par la société. La première partie de notre travail s'attache à reconsidérer les voies d'analyse traditionnelles de la « littérature beur », corpus dont font partie les romans des trois auteurs. La deuxième partie explore la façon dont ces textes renouvellent le genre du Bildungsroman notamment en problématisant l’expérience des jeunes personnages principaux de parents immigrés algériens dans la société française. L'acte de nommer et la dichotomie école-famille constituent les voies d'entrée principales dans l'analyse des romans. La troisième partie se focalise sur les stratégies textuelles et narratives par lesquelles les trois auteurs mettent en scène l'inscription des corps vus comme étrangers dans les espaces publics de la Métropole et par lesquelles ils proposent de nouvelles narrations pour inscrire l’expérience postcoloniale des jeunes protagonistes dans l’écriture. L'ironie, la subversion du regard et l'appropriation des espaces transitoires et limitrophes se trouvent ainsi au centre de notre analyse. / At the intersection of comparative literature, gender studies and postcolonial studies, this dissertation aims to study the renewal of the Bildungsroman in the novels of three contemporary French authors: Azouz Begag, Farida Belghoul and Leïla Sebbar. This work focuses on how the novels of the three writers express the social tensions the young protagonists are subjected to during their interactions with the dominant society. We strive to analyze how the conventions of the literary genre of the traditional Bildungsroman shift subtly in order to inscribe the social barriers in the textual body of literature and to propose border zones in place of the dominant society as living spaces. The first part of our work seeks to reconsider the traditional avenues of the analysis of littérature beur, the corpus of which the three authors belong to. The second part tackles the renewal of the genre of the Bildungsroman in these texts by in particular problematizing the presence of these young protagonists of Algerian immigrant descent in the French society. The act of naming and the dichotomy of school and family constitute the main entry point in the analysis of the novels. The third part concentrates on the textual and narrative strategies by which the three authors realize the inscription of bodies seen as foreign in the public spaces of the Métropole and by which they propose new narratives to set in writing the postcolonial experience of the young protagonists. The irony, the subversive gaze and the appropriation of transitory and border zones lie at the center of our analysis.

Thesis (M.A.)--Miami University, Dept. of French and Italian, 2007. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-46).

This study examines the term beur as well as the category it defines, both in terms of individuals who identify as beur, and the genre of literature that stems from the beur population in contemporary France. I begin by first suggesting that the notion of beur as a category and label serves as a third space in the binary of French culture and Maghrebi culture. This third space is necessary as the children of Maghrebi immigrants in France find themselves in between each culture and the sphere of influence that follows. The term is then problematized. The theme of binaries and the third spaces that emerge because of the problematic nature of the binaries is recurring throughout my study. I explore what these third spaces are by examining four contemporary French novels: Faïza Guène’s Kiffe kiffe demain and Un homme ça ne pleure pas, Ahmed Djouder’s Désintégration, and Brahim Metiba’s Ma mère et moi. The characters in each of these works struggle with their identity as they forge their own third spaces as solutions to various binaries that they discover they cannot fit into. In my study, I demonstrate this in three realms: integration and engaged citizenship; familial relationships, primarily parent-child relationships and the generational difference that further complicates pre-existing cultural difference; and gender roles. Each of the narratives and the main characters conveys the problematic nature of viewing French and Maghrebi culture in a binary. In my explication of the text, I argue that each narrative works towards the creation of a new third space in varying ways. / Master of Arts

The subject of this thesis is the contemporary literature written by the sons and daughters of North African immigrant families in France. Its main area of investigation is the place of this literature in the French literary field, in the Bourdieusian sense of the term, and the discursive features which motivate the ethnic based label of “Beur literature”. The study has a double approach in investigating both the argument for the socio-ethnic categorisation, and the reception of this literature in the French press. The literary corpus consists of twenty works from 2005 and 2006 by eighteen Beur writers. Thirteen of these works are subject to literary analysis. These are novels by Akli Tadjer, Zahia Rahmani, Faïza Guène, Mabrouck Rachedi, El Driss, Mohamed Razane, Houda Rouane, Nora Hamdi, Nor Eddine Boudjedia and Touhami Moualek, and three autobiographical narratives written by Razika Zitouni, Abel El Quandili and Aziz Senni. The press corpus from the corresponding period covers 14 titles of French national and regional daily papers, 8 titles of weekly general press and 6 titles of periodicals of literary and social debate. According to my hypothesis, the Beur fiction and the autobiographical narratives of my corpus are based on a common discourse that is expressed through certain literary means. A frequent strategy found in the novels is the subversion of French classics. Another feature is the constant referral to the French republican values. The novels share the latter of these two strategies with the autobiographical stories. This can be interpreted as resulting from a communication between a literary discourse and a social discourse which points toward a common ideological foundation. It also reveals the specific “Frenchness” of a literature that is often classified as “francophone” rather than “French” literature. The study of the journalistic reception confirms this aspect by the frequent referral of its authors to their ethnic and social origins.

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Ce travail de recherche a pour but de retracer l’évolution de la représentation cinématographique de la population d’origine maghrébine en France et de mettre en perspective l’analyse des procédés esthétiques et cinématographiques dans l’œuvre d’Abdellatif Kechiche.Les trois étapes constituant ce travail restituent les tournants majeurs qui jalonnent cette histoire, partant de l’émergence du « travailleur immigré » comme figure cinématographique, en passant par la prise en charge des jeunes Franco-Maghrébins, enfants des premiers immigrés, de leur propre image à l’écran, et aboutissant au cinéma d’Abdellatif Kechiche comme syncrétisme de ce mouvement.Une analyse esthétique d’un corpus de films choisis permet d’appréhender la spécificité de ce mouvement qui débute dans les années soixante-dix et s’affirme au milieu des années quatre-vingt avec la sortie du film Le Thé au harem d’Archimède de Mehdi Charef. Il s’agit par là même d’interroger l’appellation « cinéma beur » employée pour désigner les cinéastes franco-maghrébins qui émergent dans le sillage de Mehdi Charef. Le cinéma d’Abdellatif Kechiche se situe à la fois en continuité et en rupture avec ce courant. Cette recherche révèle les mécanismes artistiques à l’œuvre dans ses films et permet d’initier une réflexion sur la singularité de son écriture, ainsi que sur l’avènement d’une cinématographie qui interroge le cinéma français sur sa capacité à recomposer la réalité dans sa dimension actuelle et polymorphe. / The objective of this research is to trace the evolution of the cinematographic representation of the Maghrebi population in France, and to put into perspective an analysis of Abdellatif Kechiche’s aesthetic and cinematographic processes.The three steps of this analysis cover the decisive points marking this evolution, from the starting point of the “immigrant labourer” as a cinematographic figure, followed by the appropriation of their self-image on screen by first-generation Franco-Maghrebi youth and finishing with Abdellatif Kechiche’s cinema as a syncretism of this movement.An aesthetic analysis of a selection of films allows us to grasp the specificity of this movement, which began in the 1970s and asserted itself in the 1980s with the release of Mehdi Charef’s “Tea in the Harem” (“Le Thé au harem d’Archimède”). This allows us to question the notion of “Beur Cinema”, which was used to describe the Franco-Maghrebi directors who followed in Mehdi Charef’s footsteps. The cinema of Abdellatif Kechiche is both a continuation of, and a departure from this movement. This research highlights the artistic mechanisms at work in his oeuvre and initiates a reflection on the singularity of his writing, as well as on the establishment of a cinematography that questions French cinema in terms of its ability to recompose reality in its current and polymorphous dimension.

Thèse numérisée par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal.

Thèse numérisée par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal

Contemporary French identity issues are often conceived spatially in popular imagination and political discourse. France and French identity have been mapped into a series of imagined exclusionary spaces through media representations and political rhetoric. This dissertation argues that artists in the fields of film, rap music and fiction are actively yet often indirectly intervening in French identity debates by reframing the question of “integration” and by demonstrating that not only can one be simultaneously French and “other,” but that French identity is always already more complex and transnational than prevailing discourses of “imagined” identity will admit. This is done most effectively, I contend, by avoiding the clichéd and reductive spaces and spatial categories that inflect the debate. The works I examine employ travel and motion to move beyond the discursive ghettos such as beur or banlieue cinema or “minority” music and fiction. While often less overtly political these responses are more effective than the more typical banlieue narrative of clash and confrontation with power. Taking examples from cinema, I argue that the road movies I address are effective weapons of the weak precisely because they avoid the traps inherent in representing the banlieue. My analysis demonstrates that the discursive ghetto is not always a bad thing for a filmmaker because referring to representational stereotypes can open the possibility of more readily “trapping” the viewer and therefore forcing him/her to actively participate in the process of decoding the author’s positioning. Often works attempting to contest spatial exclusion run the risk of simply falling into entrenched binary conceptions of society, reinforcing what the viewer already thinks they know about life in the suburbs or as a minority in general. Looking beyond cinema to music and literature, I demonstrate how artists are mobilizing narrative of space and identity to re-chart France with “hyphenated” perspectives, from African and Algerian to Portuguese and Pied-noir. / text