Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Paris 13, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 468-495) and index.

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Paris 13, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 468-495) and index.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Notre Dame, 2005. / Thesis directed by Catherine Perry for the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. "July 2005." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-81).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2009. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed July 21, 2009). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-252).

Thesis advisor: Régine Jean-Charles / Taking Fatna Ait Sabbah’s two editions of La Femme dans l'inconscient musulman (1982 & 2010) as my point of departure, I analyze the image of the woman in several contemporary French and Arabic texts. Sabbah argues that buried in early Muslim pornographic texts lies an image of woman that reflects the unconscious view of her in the masculine imagination. In this image woman is positioned in opposition to the Muslim ethical system largely due to her subversive sexual desire. Sabbah’s texts raise key questions: Where a transformation of the feminine condition takes place, is it accompanied by a corresponding change in the image of the woman in the Muslim unconscious? How does the collective unconscious change? Is the unconscious always a reactionary force? Does contemporary literature reinforce Sabbah’s conception or depart from it? The novelists I have selected combine two pertinent attributes: they critique their own society and they examine female subjectivity, or in other words how a woman perceives her role, her identity and her consciousness. Through an analysis of heterodox texts, I focus particularly on how the Arab world sees itself. My first chapter compares Sabbah’s two editions, including her shift in tone and agenda, and the lacunae in her texts. In my second chapter I study Moroccan novelist Rajae Benchemsi’s Marrakech, lumière d'exil (2002) and Nawal el Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero (1975) in terms of how the erotic and space function in both texts. I explore the women characters’ compliance with or resistance to Maghrebian notions of feminine and masculine space. I argue that the individual choices regarding space help define the characters’ identity. In my third chapter I examine the Sufi view of woman as included in Rajae Benchemsi’s La Controverse des temps (2006) and Ahmed Toufiq’s Abu Musa's Women Neighbors (2006). I point out that the Sufi view presents a counter-discourse to Sabbah’s description of the image of the woman in the Muslim unconscious. If Fatna Sabbah sees woman in early erotic and orthodox texts as reduced to an exclusively sexual essence, these texts present a spiritual dimension to woman’s identity, a dimension which in the context of Sabbah’s work, I argue, has a transgressive aspect. In my fourth chapter I analyze the mother figure in two novels by the Algerian writer, Boualem Sansal: Harraga (2005) and Rue Darwin (2011). I describe the distance between the representation of the mother in Sansal’s work and the image of the woman in the Muslim unconscious as described by Sabbah. I conclude that while the image of the woman as described by Sabbah continues to be present in contemporary texts, other images, remarkable for their diversity, have emerged. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2016. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Romance Languages and Literatures.

Thesis (doctoral)--Université Paris XIII, 1995-1996. / Cover title. Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-327).

Thesis (doctoral)--Université Paris XIII, 1995-1996. / Cover title. Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-327).

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Grenoble III (Université Stendhal), 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-270) and index.

La présente recherche s’inscrit au plan scientifique dans la réflexion contemporaine menée sur l’élève lecteur et ses modes d’appropriation et de reconfiguration du texte lu. L’objet de ce travail est de mettre en évidence les problèmes spécifiques à la réception du personnage en liant étroitement pédagogie de la lecture littéraire et compétences culturelles, affectives et sociales requises et développées chez le lecteur dans le contexte scolaire tunisien. Notre interrogation principale consiste à nous demander si les modes d’approche du texte axés sur un rapport d’identification au personnage favorisent la motivation à la lecture et contribuent par là même à l’élaboration du sens et à la construction identitaire des jeunes lecteurs. Les investigations menées sont centrées sur deux sujets privilégiés : le statut du personnage romanesque dans le contexte pré-universitaire et son rôle dans l’appropriation du phénomène littéraire au lycée. L’objectif étant d’illustrer comment les différentes émotions peuvent devenir d’importants alliés dans la construction du sens.Une fois posés le cadre conceptuel de la recherche relative au personnage et l’état des lieux des savoirs sur la réception des lycéens, la réflexion se développe à partir de l’exemple de la lecture de la trilogie de Yasmina Khadra. Il s’agit d’un exemple à partir duquel nous proposons des perspectives didactiques pour la construction d’une façon de lire, à la fois participative et analytique / This scientific research is part of contemporary thinking on the student-led drive and its modes of appropriation and reconfiguration of the text. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the specific problems at the reception of the character by closely linking teaching of reading literary and cultural skills, as well as emotional and social skills required and developed at the level of the reader in the Tunisian school context. Our main question is to ask whether the ways of approaching a text-based report identifying the character promote reading motivation and thus contribute to the development ofmeaning and identity construction of young readers. The investigations focus on two main issues: the status of the fictional character in the pre-university context and its role in the appropriation of the literary phenomenon in high school. The objective is to illustrate how different emotions can become important components in the construction of meaning.Once laid the conceptual framework of research on the character and the inventory of knowledge on the reception of students, thinking will develop from the example of reading the trilogy by Yasmina Khadra. This is an example from which we offer didactic opportunities to build a way of reading, both analytical and participatory

Thesis (doctoral)--Université de Paris III, 1978. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 1048-1129).