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The problem of alienation is a serious one in most of our present societies and it has been studied in various aspects, from a sociological, psychological, as well as a philosophical viewpoint. The subject is still debatable and open to discussion. / This study focuses on the problem of alienation in colonized and decolonized societies in Africa. Through the analysis of some literary works written in French by African writers, we learn the cause and effect of the problem of alienation in African societies, occuring intensively during the colonization and also after the abolition of colonialism. / This thesis is divided into two parts. The first part consists of an introduction which presents the different concepts and theories of the word "alienation." The Introduction especially attempts to explain the sociological aspect of the term "alienation." The first chapter discusses the theory of alienation from a philosophical viewpoint, as introduced for the first time in the 19th century by Frederick Hegel. Chapter Two elaborates the theories of alienation formulated by Hegel's disciples, Ludwig Feuerbach and Karl Marx. Both discuss the problem of alienation in a bourgeois society. Contrary to Hegel's spiritual approach both Feuerbach and Marx explain this concept from a materialistic viewpoint. / The last two chapters of Part One treat respectively the concept of alienation of both Jean-Paul Sartre and Frantz Fanon. Sartre views the problem of alienation as the outcome of the bourgeoisie. Although he explains the concept of alienation from both a philosophical and a sociological viewpoint, his theory is, however, closer to Hegel's. Fanon on the other hand, studies the problem of alienation in colonized societies particularly from a psycho-sociological aspect. / In Part Two, we learn the cause and effect of the particular problem of alienation in African societies through the analysis of selected literary works. This part is divided into three chapters which analyze two novels and one play. The two novels, L'Enfant noir by Camara Laye and L'Aventure ambigue by Cheik Hamidou Kane present the cause and effect of the problem in African society during the colonization. . . . (Author's abstract exceeds stipulated maximum length. Discontinued here with permission of author.) UMI / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 44-03, Section: A, page: 0768. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1983.

<p>This dissertation proposes a reading of postcolonial African literature in light of the continent's continued status as a "remnant" of globalization--a waste product, trash heap, disposable raw material, and degraded offcut of the processes that have so greatly enriched, dignified and beautified their beneficiaries. The "excremental" vision of African authors, poets and filmmakers reflects their critical consciousness of the imbalances and injustices that characterize African societies and polities under pressure from monetized capitalism and domestic corruption. The figure of superfluity, excess, destruction or extravagance--concepts gathered together under the sign of "waste"--is a central thematic, symbolic, and formal feature of many postcolonial African works, and I suggest that literature functions in this context to document, critique, and offer alternatives to the culture of waste that predominates in political and social life on the continent. </p><p>The argument covers a range of geographical and historical ground, from the "excremental" preoccupations and stylistics of early postcolonial African fiction, to contemporary South Africa, where political anxieties about the relative superfluity of entire populations to the project of neoliberal development are articulated through the aesthetic challenges of representing the past while remaining open to productive futurity. Through chapters on excremental literature and the politics of allegory; corruption, debt and economy in Senegalese film; magical realism and inflation in Nigeria; and recycling and aesthetics in transitional South Africa, I argue for a reading of postcolonial African fiction as a mode of political ecology, an aesthetics that draws its energies directly from the problem of waste management figured in the works. </p><p>Drawing on theoretical perspectives from Walter Benjamin and postcolonial marxism to poststructuralist literary philosophy, the "new economic criticism," and psychoanalysis, I investigate how African artists themselves make sense of the continent's increasing superfluity to the global economy, its role only as "la poubelle"--the world's trash heap--where toxic waste and excess capital alike are sent to die.</p> / Dissertation

My dissertation addresses a lacuna of contemporary scholarship by utilizing South African Indian literature as a lens through which to view South African culture in a different light. Drawing on South African Indian writings emerging post-1976, I explore this fiction as a cultural history that investigates how race is negotiated in Apartheid and post-Apartheid South Africa. I have found that the seemingly marginal construction of South African Indian identity is central to understanding the ideological underpinnings of South African culture as it destabilizes rigid constructions of race. In part because of its location outside of the dominant black/white taxonomy in South Africa, this literature problematizes bounded notions of race by undermining culturally constructed oppositions that establish difference and sameness. Ideas of "Indianness" are therefore crucial to understanding cultural and institutional relations in South Africa more broadly as they reveal how race, power and politics operate outside of dominant racial oppositions, thereby repositioning the terms of the debates. Narrative in post-Apartheid South Africa forms a dialogue with both the silences of Apartheid and those of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. My work therefore investigates how literary texts undermine culturally constructed oppositions that establish difference and sameness, in dialogue with the re-textualizing processes of the TRC. I concentrate on contemporary South African Indian fiction of the last twenty-five years, including Achmat Dangor's Kafka's Curse (1997) and Bitter Fruit (2001), Farida Karodia's Other Secrets (2000), Beverley Naidoo's Out of Bounds (2001), Agnus Sam's Jesus is Indian and Other Stories (1989), Jayapraga Reddy's On the Fringe of Dreamtime and Other Stories (1987), Imraan Coovadia's The Wedding (2001) and Shamin Sarif's The World Unseen (2001).

This dissertation investigates the social life of the concept of postapartheid reconciliation. It consists of a novel, a work of fiction in four parts. As a whole it constitutes an evocation of reconciliation in contemporary South Africa. As a concept, reconciliation is found and followed and found and followed and...and also repeatedly written and read across and in the lives of three main characters and personae. The absence of an argument is an allegory for the endless process of writing and storying that began before two years of 'fieldwork' and that still continues in a context of radical change and rapid fluctuation. It is also a metaphor for the impossibility of resolving, indeed of reconciling, a fundamental agonism specific to explaining, making sense of and understanding (and hence actually living) postapartheid reconciliation: analytical and instrumental reason and rational thought on the one hand, and emotion, sentiment, intuition, and feelings on the other. A central provocation is the challenge to the dominance and absolutism, in cognition and epistemology, of rational thought and pure reason. A corollary and parallel provocation inheres in the interrogation and suggestion of possible consequences of the neglect of the sympathetic imagination in and for present day South Africa.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-02, Section: A, page: 0568. Adviser: Evelyne Accad. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 211-229) Available on microfilm from Pro Quest Information and Learning.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Linguistics, 2008. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-07, Section: A, page: 2696. Adviser: Samuel G. Obeng.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1982. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-86).

Proefschrift--Universiteit Leiden, 2006. / Author's name on the cover: Gitte Postel. Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-280) and index.

La carrière littéraire de Rachid Boudjedra a débuté en français dans la deuxième moitié des années 1960. Lorsqu'il décide de s'exprimer directement en arabe, au début des années 1980, il avait déja à son actif plusieurs romans publiés à Paris. Depuis, non seulement il traduit ces romans en arabe, mais il prépare également une version de ses romans arabes pour le public francophone, seul ou avec l'aide d'un traducteur. Nous examinons dans cette thèse le phénomène de l'autotraduction chez Boudjedra à travers deux romans, L'Insolation, paru en français en 1972 et traduit en arabe en 1984 sous le titre Al-Raane, et Timimoun, paru en arabe en 1994 et traduit en français la meme année et sous le même titre. Nous situons dans un premier temps la pratique de l'autotraduction dans l'histoire et la distinguons de la traduction dite "allographe". Nous faisons un survol des principaux travaux qui ont été faits à ce sujet, tout en distinguant les différents types d'autotraduction. Dans un deuxième temps, nous présentons le contexte maghrebin dans lequel s'inscrit l'écriture politisée de Boudjedra. Nous exposons la complexité de la situation linguistique en Algérie et au Maghreb de manière générale, et nous étudions le statut des langues et les choix linguistiques de l'écrivain maghrebin. Nous donnons également un aperçu biographique et bibliographique de Boudjedra, tout en essayant de justifier son recours à l'autotraduction. Dans un troisième temps, nous confrontons les versions arabe et française de L'Insolation et de Timimoun et évaluons l'importance des écarts et des rapprochements entre l'original et sa traduction. Nous comparons aussi les deux autotraductions, différée dans un cas et simultanée dans l'autre, afin de voir si la pratique de Boudjedra a évolue au fil du temps, surtout qu'un écart de vingt-deux ans sépare les deux romans. L'objectif de cette étude est donc de parvenir à une caractérisation de l'autotraduction chez Rachid Boudjedra en établissant, d'une part, son profil d'autotraducteur et en identifiant, d'autre part, le(s) mode(s) et la (les) stratégie(s) d'autotraduction qu'il adopte.