Using as example twelve novels by Robert Bober, Michel Houellebecq and Yasmina Khadra, the dissertation discusses the aesthetic and pragmatic implications of integrating didactically historical reference in fictional narrative and personal theme. Rather than reducing the works of Bober, Houellebecq and Khadra to tendency novels sculptured to pass on a predetermined message, the study discusses the aesthetic values created by didactical play. Not only does historical reference form the setting of the novels but the feelings and ideas expressed by the characters also point outwards, challenging journalistic discourse and historical fact. After underlining the obvious heritage from social realism, littérature engagée and Tendenzliteratur, the study points to the possibility of a reading mode that uncannily marries self forgetting imaginary and historical learning. Finding no comprehensive description within existing theories of genre, the thesis proposes the neologism “didafiction” for a subcategory to the novel that, by systematic interdiscursive play, call for engagement without subscribing to pre-existent doctrines. The lessons given by this literature, rather than operating through a traditionally pedagogic rhetoric, work through sophisticated artistic procedures that integrate encyclopaedia and ethics in a personal theme structure.

本研究利用電影院的殖民建築、設計以及週遭的城市歷史變遷過程，探討「上海電影院」的空間歷史與殖民性。 　　進入本文分析之前，先從文獻中了解「後殖民」意義與源起。建立基本認知後，一併對後殖民理論重要概念，「東方主義」、「戲擬」與「混雜性」加以耙疏，歸納整理出後殖民主義的批評觀點，以作為本文在探討上海殖民及後殖民現象在問題上提供反思與運用。緊接著透過對「全球化」理論的認知，勾勒出上海作為後殖民城市的全球及在地思考。同時，為了讓思考更為緊密，分別就「後殖民主義與全球化」、「後殖民主義與民族主義」、「後殖民主義與帝國主義」作一整組概念的理解，以作為本研究的理論與概念架構。 　　本文分析十九世紀末到二十世紀的上海電影院與城市之歷史系譜，檢視上海殖民租界時期的影院建築與城市。其次，在殖民之後，對中國社會主義主政下的上海影院與城市做一發展脈絡的理解。最後，基於對上海影院與城市歷史的認知，進一步探求當前全球化架構下，「西方」與「中國」對上海城市及影院所採取的觀看方式與干預形式，是否存在著（後）殖民文化意義的肇因轉變。 　　研究結果發現，進入九○年代後，上海存在著「向前看」與「向後看」的兩股想像力量，同時影響上海城市與影院發展：一股「向前看」的想像力量，是在全球化架構下，國家與跨國資本合力打造了一座座新式電影城的崛起，淘汰了老舊電影院的動力來源。同時，在上海城市空間的劇烈變動過程中，中國有意引渡香港作為「第三勢力」，以便在上海城市影城發展上與西方跨國資本勢力抗衡。另一股「向後看」的想像力量則存在於後殖民語境裡。中國政府投入大量資金進行影院改建工程，大面積的修改、摹仿了原初殖民影院建築，以展露出一個全新的歷史空間。在這種狀況下，當前標誌著殖民霸權的上海影院跟過去有了分別：現在的上海殖民影院是中國政府通過與資本共謀，戲擬式的營造出三○年代老上海電影宮的摩登形象，以投射出中國政府積極推動下新的混雜產物。這一切的改變，使得原初上海影院空間所夾雜的殖民符號在意義的閱讀與指涉上有了不同。新創建的殖民影院不僅成了上海城市產業上文化空間及休閒娛樂的消費賣點。同時在九○年代上海懷舊熱潮席捲影響下，也開啟了殖民影院被重新閱讀及詮釋的可能。本文以為，當西方帝國以戀物凝視姿態持續對上海殖民影院刻版印象作確認，以維持“殖民凝視（殖民規訓）”穩定的同時，也一併在國家意志與懷舊氣氛當中，經由各種懷舊媒材創作、重寫，賦予了過去特性新的內涵，虛構了新的歷史深度。 / The study aims to explore the spatial history and colonialism of cinema, process as cinema of architecture, design and urban evolvement in colonial Shanghai. Prior to embarking on the textual analysis, a concise literature review has been made to instill a rudimentary conception on the significance and origin of post-colonialism, which is then used to discern some of the crucial concepts of post-colonial theories: Orientals, mimicy, mestizo. Drawing from post-colonialism, these critical viewpoints are adopted to facilitate the attempt of this study and to examine the issues of colonial and post-colonial phenomena in Shanghai. What follows is, through globalization theories, to map out a global and local thinking on Shanghai as a post-colonial city. In order to conclude the theoretical examination and conceptual ascertaining, this study sorts out the serial subjects of “Colonialism vs. globalization”, “Post-colonialism vs. nationalism”, and “Post-colonialism vs. imperialism” as a comprehensive understanding. 　 This paper reviews the paradigmatic relation between the city and the colonial cinema of Shanghai from late 19th to 20th century. Then, after the colonization, a comprehensive discerning of Shanghai cinemas and the city as a whole under the control of Chinese socialism is examined. Lastly, based on the understanding of Shanghai cinema and the city history, a further attempt is to figure out if there’s catalytic change of significance of the Shanghai City and its cinemas on (post) colonial culture from the West’ and China’s viewpoint and intervention. The study findings reveal that in the 90’s, there are two imagined forces: “looking forward” and “looking backward” that exist in Shanghai and the two forces have influenced the development of Shanghai cinemas and the city. The “looking forward” imagined force had spurred the mushrooming of cinemas, which are advocated by cross-nationally joint venture under the framework of globalization, and that became the dynamic for eliminating the old cinemas. Meanwhile, with dramatic changes in Shanghai, the Chinese regime intends to bring in Hong Kong industry as a third counterforce to withstand the dynamic of Western multinational capital in Shanghai city’s cinema development. On the other hand, the “looking backward” imagined force can be seen in the post-colonial context of China. In order to demonstrate a new historical space, the government of China invested quite a lot to reconstruct cinemas via simulating but refining the original colonial architecture style. Thus, it can be distinguished form the present Shanghai cinemas to the past: the present colonial cinemas in Shanghai are the new mestizo by the efforts of China government, and they have built a modern mimicry of old Shanghai cinemas in the 1930s. The process of transferring has made a difference in the textual meaning from old Shanghai cinemas to the new ones. As the cultural and entertaining space in Shanghai, the newly constructed cinemas has not only become the popular area for consumption, but also turned on the possibility of re-read and re-interpretation under the trend of nostalgia. As a result, when the Western imperialism continues to acknowledge its stereotype and takes a materialistic stance toward Shanghai to maintain the stability of a colonial doctrine, those old features are new-minted different meanings by various kinds of nostalgic creature, so that a new historical depth is fabricated at the same time.

Thesis (MA (English))--University of Stellenbosch, 2008. / The notion that the post-colonial text stands in direct opposition to the canonical European text, and thus acts as a kind of counter-discourse, is generally accepted within post-colonial theory. In fact, this concept is so fashionable that Salman Rushdie’s assertion that ‘the Empire writes back to the Centre’ has been adopted as a maxim within the field of post-colonial studies, simultaneously a mission statement and a summative description of the entire field. In its role as a ‘response’ to a dominant European literary tradition, the post-colonial text is often regarded as resorting to a strategy of subversion through inversion, in essence, telling the ‘other side of the story’. The post-colonial text, then, seeks to address the ways in which the western literary tradition has marginalised, misrepresented and silenced its others by providing a platform for these dissenting voices. While such a view rightly points to the post-colonial text’s concern with alterity and oppression, it also points to the agonistic nature of the genre. That is, within post-colonial theory, the literature of Empire does not emerge as autonomous and self-determining, but is restricted to the role of counter-discourse, forever placed in direct opposition (or in response) to a unified dominant social order. Post-colonial theory’s continued classification of the literature of Empire as a reaction to a normative, dominant discourse against which all others must be weighed and found wanting serves to strengthen the binary order which polarises centre and periphery. This study is concerned with ‘rewritten’ post-colonial texts, such as J.M. Coetzee’s Foe, Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, Marina Warner’s Indigo, or, Mapping the Waters and Aimé Césaire’s A Tempest, and suggests that these revised texts exceed such narrow definition. Although often characterised by a concern with ‘political’ issues, the revised text surpasses the romantic notion of ‘speaking back’ by pointing to a more complex entanglement between post-colonial and canonical, self and other. These texts signal the collapse of binary order and the emergence of a new literary landscape in which there can be no dialogue between the clearly demarcated sites of Empire and Centre, but rather a global conversation that exceeds geographical location. It would seem as if the dependent texts in question resist offering mere pluralistic subversions of the logic of their pretexts. The desire to challenge the assumptions of a Eurocentric literary tradition is overshadowed by a distinct sense of disquiet or unease with the matrix text. This sense of unease is read as a response to an exaggerated iterability within the original text, which in turn stems from the matrix text’s inability to negotiate its own aporia. The aim of this study, then, is not to uncover the ways in which the post-colonial rewrite challenges the assumptions of its literary pretext, but rather to establish how certain elements of instability and subversion already present within the colonial pretext allows for such a return.

Visual records of place remain to a large degree inadequate when attempting to make visible the ephemeral states of consciousness that underlie the damage wrought by brutal regimes, let alone make visible the extraordinary histories and power structures encoded in images and views. This practice-led dissertation examines an emerging critical landscape genre in post-apartheid South Africa and Namibia, and its relationship to specific themes such as identity, belonging, trauma and memory. The landscape genre was traditionally considered inadequate to use in expressions of resistance under apartheid, particularly in the socially conscious and reformist discourse of South African documentary photography. I argue that, as a result of historical and cultural shifts after the demise of apartheid in 1994, a shift in aesthetic and subject matter has occurred, one that has led to a more rigorous and interventionist engagement with the landscape genre. I demonstrate how, after 1994, photographers of the long-established documentary tradition, which was meant to record 'what is there' in a sharp, clear, legible and impartial manner, would continue to draw on devices of the documentary aesthetic, but in a more idiosyncratic way. I show how these post-apartheid, documentary landscapes both disrupt and complicate the conventional expectations involved in converting visual fields into knowledge. I further investigate, through my own experimental documentary work, the ideologically fraught aspects of landscape representation with their links to Calvinist and German Romantic aesthetics. I appropriate and disrupt certain tropes still prevalent in popular landscape depictions. I do this in an effort to reveal the complex and troubled relationship that these traditions share with issues of willed historical amnesia and recognition in contemporary Namibia. Through my practice and the examination of other photographers' and artists' work, this project aims to further a self-reflective and critical approach to the genre of landscape and issues of identity in post-apartheid South Africa and Namibia.

Né en 1935 à Estérençuby (Pyrénées Atlantiques), Eñaut Etxamendi est écrivain, poète et chanteur en langue basque. Dans son œuvre narrative, il décrit la société agraire du Pays Basque Nord – concrètement, la province de la Basse-Navarre – et son processus de désagrégation sociale et culturelle à partir des années 60. Quelle place accorder dans la littérature basque moderne à cette œuvre, qui sublime l'idylle détruite ? Quelle est sa place et son originalité au vu des productions des auteurs basques contemporains? Quelle part de l’œuvre d’Etxamendi se situe sous l’influence de la pensée nationaliste et quel peut bien être son degré de participation à la construction de mythes identitaires? Nous utilisons les concepts du formalisme russe pour décrire la structure, le matériau littéraire et le dynamisme de l'œuvre etxamendienne. Puis, nous interrogeons ces résultats par l'apport du post-formalisme et des propositions bakhtiniennes et tâchons de situer l'œuvre littéraire d'Eñaut Etxamendi dans son rapport à l'idylle détruite et au Cкaз. Finalement, nous faisons intervenir l'ethnocritique de la littérature et le post-colonialisme, afin d'inscrire l'œuvre littéraire d'Eñaut Etxamendi dans « la mémoire longue d’une communauté discursive » et dans le contexte particulier des années 1960-1990 qui alliait la vitalité politique à la vitalité culturelle. L’objectif de ce questionnement est d’approfondir dans la connaissance de l’œuvre d’un auteur mais aussi d’une région littéraire du Pays Basque encore trop peu étudiées. / Eñaut Etxamendi was born in Esterençuby (Pyrénées Atlantiques, France), in 1935. He is a writer, poet an singer in basque language. In his literary work, Eñaut Etxamendi describes the agrarian society who was disappearing by the 60's in the North Basque Country – concretely in the province of Basse-Navarre – and the process of social and cultural disbanding that occured then.Where can be placed Eñaut Etxamendi's literary writing – sprung up in geographical and linguistic periphery – and its sublimated « idyllic chronotope » in basque modern literature ? Which is his originality comparing to other contemporary basque writer's works ? What is Etxamendi's part of work under nationalist theories's influence and up to which point has his literature pertained to the discourse of identity ? Our search is an attempt to improve knowledge of a few known author and few known literary area of Basque Country.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-11T19:29:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2008-02-18Bitstream added on 2014-06-13T19:59:50Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 sampaio_a_me_sjrp.pdf: 947406 bytes, checksum: 439f9305de41533c9a4b49fefb3caad1 (MD5) / Esta dissertação analisa a peça Translations (1980), de Brian Friel, a partir de uma leitura póscolonial da situação irlandesa do final da década de 1970. Como primeira produção da Companhia de Teatro Field Day, Translations fez parte do projeto de restabelecer a consciência política das artes em relação às tradições da nação, do sujeito irlandês e sua língua. Nossa proposta é a de que a peça de Friel se constrói como uma atualização histórica, a qual se desdobra em dois planos textuais, um denotativo e um figurativo, em que a relação colonial entre Irlanda e Inglaterra se apresenta como metáfora dos problemas contemporâneos que envolvem a República e o Norte. Assim, na busca por um conceito de identidade nacional e cultural irlandesa, pensamos a peça de Friel sob o enfoque da revisão histórica do nacionalismo, representada na releitura ficcional da colonização no período do século XIX. Para tanto, trabalhamos o desenvolvimento discursivo do nacionalismo irlandês para, então, focarmos na questão do discurso e suas formações e no pós-colonialismo como resposta às práticas hegemônicas. Por meio da seleção de trechos da peça – diálogos e rubricas –, analisamos a posição discursiva de cada personagem no embate cultural entre colonizado e colonizador, segundo as estratégias pós-coloniais de que se serve o escritor na representação do sujeito. Vemos que, em Translations, a busca por uma identidade livre de qualquer essencialismo revela uma consciência e intenção política do autor; além disso, subjacente a esse processo, está um exame “auto-crítico” da imagem do escritor pós-colonial e de seu posicionamento estratégico dentro da representação literária. / This dissertation is an analysis of Brian Friel’s play Translations (1980), based on a postcolonial reading of the Irish situation at the end of the 1970s. As the first production of the Field Day Theatre Company, Translations was part of a project which was aimed at reestablishing a political conscience in the artistic world regarding the nation’s tradition, as well as the Irish subject and his/her language. We propose that Friel’s play takes the form of a historical updating which operates both denotatively and figuratively, in which aspects of the colonial history of Ireland and England are used as a metaphor for contemporary problems involving the Republic and the North. Thus, in seeking a concept for Irish national and cultural identity, we consider Friel’s play as a form of nationalist historical revision, represented as a fictional re-reading of nineteenth-century colonisation. We study the discursive development of Irish nationalism in order to focus on the issue of discourse and its formation, as well as on post-colonialism as a response to hegemonic practices. Based upon a selection of extracts from the play – both dialogue and stage directions –, we analyse the discursive position of the principal characters with regard to the cultural confrontation between colonised and coloniser, according to the postcolonial strategies available to the writer in his representation of the subject. In Translations, we see that the search for an identity free of essentialism reveals the author’s conscience and political intention; in addition, we demonstrate that Friel is conducting a self-critical examination of the image and strategic position of the postcolonial writer.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This dissertation presents issues on urban sites and the administration of archeological and cultural heritage, in order to point out the relationship, in some historical centers, between urban sites and local communities, public administrators and archeologists. The objective is to verify how the discourse on historical sites was constructed by those three agents, whose main concern was to apprehend the colonizing thought which guided those choices. The city of Marechal Deodoro, in Alagoas, was chosen as the site because of research for the existence of several archeological sites within the city´s perimeter. These sites are being researched on account of the undergoing requalification tasks in the cities? Historical Centers. In this way, our goal was to observe how the practice of Urban Archeology is affecting the normative standard of heritage sites and, consequently, the eclipsing of certain cultural aspects which could otherwise be appropriated by the population for the building of a local identity. In this perspective, this work adopted, as a fundamental point, the distortion of the normative standards regarding the definition of archeological heritage, in favour of the horizontal discourse, in such a way as to, based thus on a theory of the presuppositions of the Post Colonial theories, create reflections on a Public Archeology, in which the otherness processes can become evident in the benefit of more democratic discourses. / La tesis presenta discusiones relacionadas a los sitios urbanos en relación a la gestión del patrimonio arqueológico y cultural, con el fin de mostrar en algunos centros históricos la conexión del sitio urbano con las comunidades locales, los gestores públicos y los arqueólogos. El objetivo es verificar cómo fueron construidos los discursos sobre sitio histórico por esos tres agentes, teniendo como punto primordial captar el pensamento colonizante que orientó tales elecciones. Para la investigación fue elegida la ciudad de Marechal Deodoro, en el Estado de Alagoas, que alberga en su perímetro urbano diversos sitios arqueológicos que están siendo investigados por causa de obras de revitalización de sus Centros Históricos. De esta forma, la intención fue percibir cómo la práctica de la Arqueología Urbana está influenciando el patrón normativo de "bien patrimonial", teniendo como consecuencia el oscurecimiento de ciertos aspectos culturales que, de otra forma, podrían ser apropiados por la población para la construcción de una identidad local. En esta perspectiva, el trabajo tuvo como punto fundamental la desnaturalización de los patrones normativos de caracterización de lo que es patrimonio arqueológico, a favor de un discurso horizontal, pretendiendo, así, a través del aporte teórico de los presupuestos de las teorías postcoloniales, construir reflexiones para pensar en una Arqueología Pública, donde los procesos de alteridad sean evidenciados en pro de discursos más democráticos. / A tese apresenta discussões relacionadas aos sítios urbanos em relação à gestão do patrimônio arqueológico e cultural, de modo a evidenciar em alguns centros históricos a conexão do sítio urbano com as comunidades locais, gestores públicos e arqueólogos. O objetivo é verificar como foram construídos os discursos sobre sítio histórico por esses três agentes, tendo como ponto primordial captar o pensamento colonizante que norteou certas escolhas. Para a pesquisa foi escolhida a cidade de Marechal Deodoro, no Estado de Alagoas, que abriga em seu perímetro urbano diversos sítios arqueológicos que estão sendo pesquisados por conta de trabalhos de requalificação em seus Centros Históricos. Desta forma, a intenção foi perceber em como a prática da Arqueologia Urbana está influenciando o padrão normativo de "bem patrimonial", tendo como consequência o obscurecimento de certos aspectos culturais, que de outra forma poderiam ser apropriados pela população para a construção de uma identidade local. Nessa perspectiva, o trabalho teve como ponto fundamental a desnaturalização dos padrões normativos de caracterização do que é patrimônio arqueológico, a favor de um discurso horizontal, pretendendo, assim, através do aporte teórico dos pressupostos das teorias Pós-Coloniais, criar reflexões para se pensar em uma Arqueologia Pública, onde os processos de alteridade sejam evidenciados em prol de discursos mais democráticos. / Laranjeiras

Orientador: Leila da Costa Ferreira / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-11T09:26:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Castro_CarlosPotiara_D.pdf: 1416622 bytes, checksum: a5f18af8d5b33c259db46ce0fe8801e2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2008 / Resumo: Este trabalho porta sobre a produção intelectual elaborada sobre a região amazônica na área de ciências sociais em três países: Brasil, Colômbia e Equador. Para realizar esse objetivo é feita uma discussão sobre o processo de transformação da região. É argüido que se trata de um processo que se repetiu ao longo do tempo em outras regiões do globo e que não se constitui em um movimento único na história, a não ser pelas especificidades locais. A própria irracionalidade desse avanço, que constitui e define em grande parte o objeto de estudo dessas ciências sociais, ou ao menos a tensão central em torno da qual é elaborada, é reveladora dos limites, das franjas de possibilidades reais que se colocam diante de nossa sociedade. Concluímos que trabalhar esse tema, os estudos amazônicos, dos de maior envergadura para a área ambiental, pode levar a entrever não apenas problemas presentes na região de maior floresta tropical do mundo. De uma forma especial esse tema nos habilita também a discutir a atual crise industrial, política e social traduzida pelo que chamamos de dilema ambiental. Palavras-chave: Ciência e tecnologia ¿ Amazônia; Pós-colonialismo; Produção científica ¿ Brasil; Produção científica ¿ Colômbia; Produção científica ¿ Equador; Ciências Sociais / Abstract: This work deals with the scientific literature about the Amazon region produced in the field of social sciences in three different countries: Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador. To achieve this goal we make a prior discussion about the transformation of the region related to the advancement of our civilization on its territory. It¿s argued that this is a process that was repeated over the time in other regions of the world and that this is not a unique movement in history even if with local specificities. The irrationality of this process, that defines in large part the study object of this literature, or at least the tension around it¿s center, reveals the limits of our contemporary societies. We conclude that working with that subject can uncover not only problems in the region of the world's largest tropical rainforest, but it enables us also to discuss the current industrial, political and social crisis translated by the concept of environmental dilemma. Keywords: Science and technology ¿ Amazon; Post-colonialism ; Scientific Production ¿ Brazil; Scientific Production ¿ Colombia; Scientific Production ¿ Ecuador ; Social Sciences / Doutorado / Doutor em Ciências Sociais

En 2005-6, le virus du chikungunya, transmis par les moustiques Aedes albopictus, touche 38% des habitants de La Réunion. Cette épidémie marque la fin de l'usage systématique des insecticides et la refonte des politiques de santé. Les pouvoirs publics enrôlent les citoyens et les moustiques dans l'élaboration de nouvelles frontières, matérielles et symboliques, entre les deux espèces. Cette thèse a pour objectif d'interroger les effets de ces changements de pratiques sur les rapports sociaux de pouvoir en contexte post-colonial, et sur les relations entre humains et moustiques. Pour saisir les dynamiques socio-naturelles à l'œuvre, une ethnographie combinatoire a permis d'observer les co-constructions de savoirs et de pratiques dans plusieurs espaces où s'organise la mise à distance des moustiques. Elle s'est appuyée sur le recueil de discours et l'observation de pratiques au sein du service de lutte contre les moustiques, au cœur d'une équipe de recherche sur la Technique de l'insecte stérile (visant à relâcher des moustiques stériles sur l'île) et auprès de non professionnels de la lutte. Une collecte d'articles de presse et d'archives a achevé de constituer le corpus de données. L'enjeu de cette thèse est de montrer que bien loin d'opérer une simple séparation entre humains et moustiques, les nouvelles pratiques de lutte ont intensifié leurs interactions. En parallèle, elle propose une réflexion sur les dynamiques liées à la coexistence de plusieurs systèmes interprétatifs, permettant d'appréhender – ou non – collectivement la prise en charge du risque épidémique. C'est l’occasion de réfléchir aux relations entre l'État, les scientifiques et les citoyens. / In 2005-6, the chikungunya virus, transmitted by the Aedes albopictus mosquito, affects 38% of the inhabitants of Reunion Island. This outbreak marks the end of the systematic use of insecticides and the consolidation of health policies. Public authorities enlist citizens and mosquitoes in the development of new frontiers, material and symbolic, between the two species. This thesis aims to examine the effects of these changes in practices on the social relations of power in post-colonial context, and the relationship between humans and mosquitoes.To apprehend the socio-natural dynamics at work, a combinatorial ethnography allowed to observe the co-construction of knowledge and practices in several areas where the distancing mosquitoes gets organized. It was based on the collection of speeches and observing practices in the vector control service, in the heart of a research team on the Sterile insect technique (to release sterile mosquitoes on the island) and from non-control professionals. A collection of articles and archives finalized to constitute the body of data.The aim of this thesis is to show that far from making a simple separation between humans and mosquitoes, new management practices have intensified their interactions. In parallel, it proposes a reflection on the dynamics associated with the coexistence of several interpretive systems, allowing to understand - or not - the collective management of epidemic risk. This is an opportunity to reflect on the relationship between the state, scientists and citizens

Ce travail de recherche interroge les revendications identitaires (territoriales et politiques, individuelles et collectives) dans un corpus de discours engagés. Nous avons privilégié les discours des partis progressistes, des romans engagés des années 1970-1980, des récits de vie et des témoignages des enfants de la Creuse. Les textes analysés mettent en lumière la construction d'un modèle politique de mise-sous-tutelle et accusent un processus de décolonisation qui étouffe les particularités et stigmatise l'identité créole. Les revendications portent sur l'autonomisation des décisions politiques et la considération des spécificités régionales. Ces particularités locales, qu'elles soient géographiques, langagières ou culturelles, sont défendues comme des éléments constitutifs de l'identité de la Réunion. Cependant, l'identité réunionnaise est représentée dans un processus conflictuel, où les éléments culturels sont hiérarchisés. L'analyse des enjeux de la construction des identités en période postcoloniale montre une inévitable corrélation avec l'organisation de la société coloniale. Les structures de domination, transformées après 1946, corrélées aux effets de la départementalisation et de la mondialisation, entravent la construction d'une identité décomplexée. Dans ce contexte, le discours littéraire devient un moyen de résistance et permet aux subalternes de se réapproprier le discours sur soi et d'apporter une autre version de l'histoire. Cette thèse interroge les enjeux de la construction de l'identité réunionnaise, dans le contexte des mutations sociales et politiques, et en considérant ses conséquences sur les individus. Elle souligne également l'absence de considération du fait colonial et de ses conséquences contemporaines en France. / This research paper questions the identity claims (territorial and political, individual and collective) in a corpus of engaged speeches. The decision was to work from speeches of progressive parties, engaged novels from the 1970s-1980s, life stories and accounts from “the Children of Creuse”. The analysed texts highlight the construction of a political model of state supervision and blame a process of decolonisation that stifles particularities and stigmatises the Creole identity. The claims focus on empowering the making of political decisions and considering the regional specificities. These local particularities, either geographic, linguistic or cultural, are defended as defining elements of Reunion's identity. However, the Reunionese identity is represented in a conflictual process in which the cultural elements are organised in a hierarchy. The analysis of the issue of the building of identities during the postcolonial era shows an inevitable correlation with the organisation of the colonial society. The structures of domination, transformed after 1946, correlated to the effects of the departmentalisation and globalisation, hinder the construction of an assertive identity. In this context, the literary speech becomes a means of resistance and allows the subordinates to claim the speech back to themselves and bring another version of the history. This thesis questions the concerns of the building of the Reunionese identity in the context of social and political transformations and by considering its consequences on individuals. It also emphasises the absence of consideration of colonialism and its contemporary impacts in France.