Le voyage des étudiants africains en situation coloniale constitue le sujet d’une mise en scène récurrente dans la littérature africaine d’expression française des années cinquante. À l’époque des combats décoloniaux, politiques et idéologiques, certains écrivains comme Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Camara Laye ou Aké Loba font de l’expérience de la colonisation culturelle le cœur de leurs œuvres littéraires. Leurs textes portant sur le voyage pour études des héros vers la France s’articulent autour d’une isotopie narrative, spatiale et existentielle : une migration en forme d’impasse, reposant sur quantité de promesses trahies, de rêves aux perspectives brisées, d’expériences de déréliction mortifère. L’étude du fonctionnement littéraire de la déception progressive des personnages d’élèves africains colonisés permet de mettre au jour le processus de subjectivation qui détermine leur horizon bouché. Car les trompe-l’œil idéologiques de l’entreprise coloniale dissimulent un mouvement de capture existentielle qui arraisonne les personnages et les transforme en sujet de domination. Depuis le tournant des indépendances politiques, le traitement littéraire de ces aventures échouées continue d’interroger le temps présent. Ces êtres tendus entre des espaces et des univers de valeurs antagoniques questionnent la négociation des identités postcoloniales. Comme si, en entrant dans la fabrique du personnage colonisé, partant à la rencontre de ses mécanismes et de ses modèles, nous avions rendez-vous avec les formes contemporaines de leur développement mondialisé. / The travels of African students in a colonial situation are a recurring subject in Frenchspeaking African literature of the 1950s. At the time of de-colonial, political and ideological struggles, some writers such as Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Camara Laye or Aké Loba have put the experience of cultural colonization at the heart of their literary work. Their writings, aboutthe study trips of the main characters to France, are based on a spatial and existential isotopy: a dead-end migration, based on many betrayed promises, dreams with broken perspectives, experiences of deathly dereliction. The study of the literary device of the progressive disenchantment of these characters – African, colonized students – allows to shed light on thesubjectivation process that shapes their barred horizons. Indeed, the ideological deceit of the colonial endeavor hides a movement of existential capture that grabs the character and makes them subjects of domination. Since the turning point of political independencies, the literary outlook on those failed adventures keeps interrogating our present times. These beings, stretched between spaces and universes of opposed values, question the negotiation of postcolonial identities. As if, by entering the mold of the colonized character, by going to meet its mechanisms and models, we had an appointment with the modern-day shapes of their globalized development.

La France littéraire du début des années 1920 connaît un engouement sans précédent pour le roman d'aventures. On ambitionne alors un roman d'aventures français qui renouvellerait le genre et égalerait les grandes réussites anglo-saxonnes : la France cherche ses Stevenson et ses Conrad ! Si l'histoire littéraire a retenu les noms de Blaise Cendrars, Pierre Mac Orlan, Joseph Kessel, André Malraux, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, elle a longtemps passé sous silence cette « vogue du roman d'aventures », ainsi que la nomme alors la presse culturelle. Or, au lendemain de ce que Michel Raimond a décrit comme une « crise du roman », les aspirations aventurières du roman français offrent une réponse romanesque aux inquiétudes poétiques et philosophiques de la première moitiédu XXe siècle. Le roman d'aventures littéraire des années 1920-1930 est le point culminant d'une pensée littéraire qui, du symbolisme à l'existentialisme, n'a cessé de questionner les jeux et enjeux de l'action et du rêve dans le roman. Cette étude propose de retracer l'histoire de ces enjeux et d'examiner, de 1918 à 1939, du Chant de l'équipage de Mac Orlan aux Figurants de la mort de Roger de Lafforest, un ensemble de romans d'aventures qui tous partagent cette mystique moderne de l'aventure. / In the beginning of the 20's, literary France knows a craze for the adventure novel. After whatMichel Raimond called “la crise du roman” this new production of adventure novel offers ananswers to the poetical and philosophical questions of the first XXe century. From 1918 to 1939,from Pierre Mac Orlan's Le Chant de l'équipage to Roger de Lafforest's Figurants de la mort, thisstudy follows the history of the literary adventure novel and analyses a group of novels that allshare this modern adventurous mystic.

Student Number : 7805464 - MA dissertation - School of SLLS - Faculty of Arts / This dissertation interrogates Anne Landsman’s The Devil’s Chimney. The novel is narrated by the poor-white alcoholic, Connie, who imagines a story about Beatrice, an English colonist living on a farm in the Little Karoo. Connie, who is a product of the apartheid era, interweaves her own story with that of Beatrice’s and, in this way, comes to terms with her own memories, her abusive husband and the new South Africa. Connie deploys the genre of magical realism to create a defamiliarised farm setting for Beatrice’s narrative. She thus challenges the stereotypes associated with the traditional plaasroman and its patriarchal codes. These codes are also subverted in Connie’s representation of Beatrice, who contests her identity as the authoritative Englishwoman, as constructed by colonial discourse. In addition, Beatrice’s black domestic, Nomsa, is given voice and agency: facilities denied to her counterparts in colonial and apartheid fiction. Nomsa’s relationship with Beatrice is also characterised by subversion as it blurs the boundaries between colonised and coloniser. In this regard, the text demands a postcolonial reading. Connie, in narrating Beatrice’s and Nomsa’s stories, reinvents their invisible lives and, by doing so, is able to rewrite herself. In this, she tentatively envisions a future for herself and also potentially ‘narrates’ the nation, thus contributing to the new national literature. The nation is inscribed in the Cango caves, whose spaces witness the seminal episodes in Beatrice’s narrative. In these events, the caves ‘write’ the female body and women’s sexuality and the text thus calls for an engagement with feminism. The caves also inscribe South African history, the Western literary canon, the imagination and Landsman’s own voice. Hence, the caves assume the characteristics of a palimpsest. This, together with the metafictive elements of the novel, invites an encounter with postmodernism.

The Writers’ Union of Canada was founded in November of 1973 “to unite Canadian writers for the advancement of their common interests.” Drawing on extensive archival collections – from both the Writers’ Union and its member authors – this dissertation offers the first critical history of the organization and its work, from pre-founding to the early 1990s, arguing that the Writers’ Union has fundamentally influenced Canadian literature, as an industry, as a community, and as a field of study. I begin by tracing the contextual history of the organization’s founding, interrogating how union organizing, celebrity, and friendship underpin the organization’s work. Chapter One discusses the Writers’ Union’s programs, reforms, and interventions aimed at ‘fostering’ writing in Canada as I argue that the Union was instrumental in building a fiscal-cultural futurity for CanLit. In Chapter Two, I consider the role that women played in this important work, as I highlight the labour of female Union members and the all-female administrative staff, who maintained and supported the organization’s work through its first twenty years. In Chapter Three I draw attention to the stories of, perspectives of, and experiences of BIPOC authors in relation to the Writers’ Union. While the Writers’ Union’s involvement in race relations is often positioned as having ‘begun’ with the Writing Thru Race conference in 1994, this chapter uses the archives to reveal a much longer trajectory of racialized conflict within and around the organization, providing important context for the very controversial and public battles about appropriation and race that would explode in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Throughout this work, I look to see how institutional narratives are deployed and upheld, and to what ends; how successful advocacy work is often effaced and forgotten; how institutional structures function; and how their boundaries and intentions are challenged and developed over time. / Dissertation / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) / The Writers’ Union of Canada was founded in November of 1973 “to unite Canadian writers for the advancement of their common interests.” Drawing on extensive archival collections – from both the Writers’ Union and its member authors – this dissertation offers the first critical history of the organization and its work, from pre-founding to the early 1990s. I argue that the Writers’ Union has fundamentally influenced Canadian literature – as an industry, as a community, and as a field of study – as I consider how unionism, literary celebrity, and friendship underpinned the organization’s work. This dissertation recuperates and comments on the important volunteer labour of Writers’ Union members in the service of literary labour, gender equity, and racial equity over the organization’s first twenty years.

The essay begins by addressing the imbalance between students' lack of interest in the literary-historical content of the Swedish subject and the voices advocating for strategies to engage interest in the subject. Given the textbook's position in education and its potential to also engage students, the expectations of the recipient as constructed in its design will be examined. Therefore, Wolfgang Iser's and Umberto Eco's theories on the implied reader have been used to identify the intended recipient, more particularly the student, of the textbook. With that said, the purpose of the present study is to contribute to the understanding of how the intended student of textbooks is constructed through strategies designed to engage interest in the literary-historical content of the Swedish subject. The study adopts a qualitative approach and consists of a thematic analysis of the textbooks Svenska 2 – helt enkelt and Svenska impulser 2. The results indicate six distinctive strategies that collectively provide an understanding of how the intended recipient is expected to be engaged. Overall, the textbooks convey different expectations. Although they employ the same strategies, they do so to varying extents and based on different values concerning the use of meaning-making resources. Svenska impulser 2 prioritizes a shorter text span but varied semiotic resources, whereas Svenska 2 – helt enkelt expresses the need for and illustrates a minimalist design with a longer text span. Consequently, the books construct different expectations regarding the intended student's interest in the literary-historical content of the Swedish subject. The intended student is either in need of varied content or focus. In turn this means that the student is expected to become interested in either a summarizing language with varied semiotic resources or a simpler design with a denser linguistic content. / Uppsatsen tar avstamp i obalansen mellan elevers bristande intresse för svenskämnets litteraturhistoriska ämnesinnehåll och de röster som talar om vikten av strategier att intressera för ämnet. På grund av lärobokens fortsatt starka ställning i undervisningen och dess potential att också intressera eleven ska förväntningar på mottagaren som konstrueras i dess design undersökas. Därför har Wolfgang Isers och Umberto Ecos teorier om att texter har en avsiktlig mottagare använts för att formulera vem lärobokens tänkta mottagare, närmare bestämt elev, är. Med det sagt är syftet med föreliggande studie att åstadkomma ett kunskapsbidrag om hur läroböckers tänkta elev konstrueras genom strategier som intresserar för svenskämnets litteraturhistoriska ämnesinnehåll. Studien har en kvalitativ ansats och består av en tematisk analys av läroböckerna Svenska 2 – helt enkelt och Svenska impulser 2. Resultatet indikerar sex utmärkande strategier som tillsammans ger en bild av hur den tänkta mottagaren förväntas intresseras. Sammantaget förmedlar läroböckerna olika förväntningar. Även om de använder samma strategier är det i olika utsträckning och utifrån olika värderingar gällande användandet av meningsskapande resurser. Svenska impulser 2 visar en prioritering av ett kortare textomfång men varierade tecken, medan Svenska 2 – helt enkelt både uttrycker behovet av och gestaltar en minimalistisk design med ett längre textomfång. Således konstruerar böckerna även olika förväntningar på den tänkta elevens intresse för svenskämnets litteraturhistoriska innehåll. Den tänkta eleven är antingen i behov av ett varierat innehåll, eller i behov av fokus. Det innebär i sin tur att eleven förväntas bli intresserad av ett sammanfattande språk med varierade tecken eller av en enklare design med ett tyngre språkinnehåll.

Text in Afrikaans / Hierdie studie is 'n herskepping van die wereld van die Afrikaanse roman van 1934-1939. Al die romans is bekom en gelees. Die beskikbaarheid van hierdie romans word aangedui. 'n Sketsmatige beeld van elke roman word gegee, waarin die aard daarvan aangetoon word ten opsigte van die volgende aspekte: milieu, tema en konflik (moreel, religieus, maatskaplik, polities). Die lotgevalle van hierdie romans is nagegaan aan die hand van tydgenootlike resepsiegeskiedenis, sowel as die van die literatuurgeskiedskrywing tot op hede. Hieruit het dit geblyk dat sekere romans aanvanklik hoog aangeslaan is, maar nie in die kanon opgeneem is nie. Moontlike redes hiervoor word ondersoek. Na my oordeel verdien Die loutering van Petrus deur Ella Fischer en Die jare daarna deur Aletta Steyn 'n herbesoek. Albei romans is boeiend en interessant, die karakters "lewe" en dit wat hul beleef en ervaar, spreek steeds tot die leser van die negentigerjare / This study is a recreation of the world of the Afrikaans novel of 1934-1939. All the novels were obtained and read. The availability of these novels is indicated. A schematic account of each novel is given, in which the nature of each is explicated in respect of the following aspects: milieu, theme and conflict (moral, religious, social and political). The fate of these novels was researched in the context of their contemporary reception history and that of literary historiography to date. From the study it appears that certain novels were initially highly acclaimed, but were not included in the canon. Possible reasons for this are investigated. It is my opinion that Die loutering van Petrus by Ella Fischer and Die }are daarna by Aletta Steyn need to be re-evaluated. Both novels are absorbing and interesting, the characters are lifelike and their life experiences are still relevant to the reader of the nineties / Afrikaans & Theory of Literature / M.A. (Afrikaans)

Text in Afrikaans / Hierdie studie is 'n herskepping van die wereld van die Afrikaanse roman van 1934-1939. Al die romans is bekom en gelees. Die beskikbaarheid van hierdie romans word aangedui. 'n Sketsmatige beeld van elke roman word gegee, waarin die aard daarvan aangetoon word ten opsigte van die volgende aspekte: milieu, tema en konflik (moreel, religieus, maatskaplik, polities). Die lotgevalle van hierdie romans is nagegaan aan die hand van tydgenootlike resepsiegeskiedenis, sowel as die van die literatuurgeskiedskrywing tot op hede. Hieruit het dit geblyk dat sekere romans aanvanklik hoog aangeslaan is, maar nie in die kanon opgeneem is nie. Moontlike redes hiervoor word ondersoek. Na my oordeel verdien Die loutering van Petrus deur Ella Fischer en Die jare daarna deur Aletta Steyn 'n herbesoek. Albei romans is boeiend en interessant, die karakters "lewe" en dit wat hul beleef en ervaar, spreek steeds tot die leser van die negentigerjare / This study is a recreation of the world of the Afrikaans novel of 1934-1939. All the novels were obtained and read. The availability of these novels is indicated. A schematic account of each novel is given, in which the nature of each is explicated in respect of the following aspects: milieu, theme and conflict (moral, religious, social and political). The fate of these novels was researched in the context of their contemporary reception history and that of literary historiography to date. From the study it appears that certain novels were initially highly acclaimed, but were not included in the canon. Possible reasons for this are investigated. It is my opinion that Die loutering van Petrus by Ella Fischer and Die }are daarna by Aletta Steyn need to be re-evaluated. Both novels are absorbing and interesting, the characters are lifelike and their life experiences are still relevant to the reader of the nineties / Afrikaans and Theory of Literature / M.A. (Afrikaans)

The thesis deals with one major issue of how the amaXhosa authors reflect change and transition in the lives of their characters in the period under consideration. This change pertains both to the socio-politico-economic life of the people concerned and the contents of the books and the style of the authors' writings. The study is ground-breaking in that it goes beyond common dissection of the structural elements of the books to a synthetic study of their themes, subject matter, character portrayal and setting. The primary aim is to give a holistic overview of the changing culture of the black people against the backdrop of subjugation and transformation. Chapter 1 contains all the formal preliminary information such as aim, method, context, relevance and topicality of study. Chapter 2 anchors the study in the newspaper age as a solid foundation for the amaXhosa literature. Chapter 3 is an overview of the beginnings of literary endeavours among the amaXhosa and how they reflect the impact of socio-economic pressures in the lives of the people. Chapter 4 further illustrates the impact of education and Christianisation on the blacks as well as growing political awareness among the authors. Chapter 5 focuses on culture-clash among the amaXhosa as a result of the alienating influence of both the church and the school. Chapter 6 highlights changes in society at the height of oppression under the previous political dispensation. Chapters 7 and 8 reflect the authors' thinking and how they depict changes in post-apartheid South Africa while Chapter 9 focuses on the role of Language Boards in restricting freedom of writing and expression during the apartheid years. Chapter 10 is a general conclusion that encapsulates the main points of the thesis. / African Languages / D. Litt, et Phil. (African Languages)

This MA thesis is primarily concerned with the poetics of the first two poetry collections by the Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov. The said collections, Lapidarium and The Cherry Tree of One People were published for the first time in the 1990s. The first part of the thesis is devoted to the author's debut, Lapidarium; mainly, we are attempting to capture the collection's characteristic traits and draw attention to the conspicious features connecting this oeuvre with the book Tao Te Ching. In the second part we continue by the analysis of The Cherry Tree of One People. We are focusing on the change of the author's poetics and furthermore, we concetrate on the national/supranatural aspects of the texts. In the concluding part, we anchor Gospodinov's work in the wider context of the 1990s and provide a comparison of contemporary Czech and Bulgarian poetry.

O trabalho procura fazer conexões, não uma comparação, entre Machado de Assis, Oswald de Andrade e Paulo Emilio Salles Gomes, a partir de um foco temático específico, que diz respeito às intervenções dos três ficcionistas no processo histórico e literário de construção e destruição de uma imagem da classe dirigente brasileira. A tese contém análises de Dona Fernanda e do narrador de Quincas Borba enquanto seres de linguagem nos quais Machado cristalizou uma Weltanschauung dessa classe e do literato aderente a ela; João Miramar e o protagonista de Três mulheres de três pppês são tomados como duplos explícitos e inversos de Oswald e de Paulo Emilio; as expectativas públicas que os dois ficcionistas carregam enquanto rebentos da alta burguesia são purgadas e com os restos são construídas as personagens. Em Um homem sem profissão e em Cemitério, o intelectual de consciência cindida se torna portador da esperança de um mundo diverso do relatado. O trabalho crítico se pauta pela procura do ponto nevrálgico em que se encontram desmistificação ideológica e criação literária. / This thesis seeks to make conections, not a comparison, between Machado de Assis, Oswald de Andrade and Paulo Emilio Salles Gomes, through a specific thematic focus, that refers to the three writers interventions in the historical and literary process of the construction and destruction of an image of the Brazilian ruling class. The thesis contains analyses of Dona Fernanda and of the narrator of Quincas Borba as fictional beings in which Machado crystallized a Weltanschauung of this class and its literary adherents; João Miramar and the protagonist of Três mulheres de três pppês are taken as explicit and opposite doubles of Oswald and Paulo Emilio; the public expectations that the two fictionists carry as the rebellious offspring of the haute bourgeoisie are purged and from the remains the characters are constructed. In Um homem sem profissão and in Cemitério, the intellectual of divided conscience becomes a carrier of hope in a world different from the one narrated. The critical work is guided by the search for the nervous point in which ideological demystification and literary creation meet.