The essay represents the projector principle, on which, as the essay’s author believes, the narration of The Summer Lightning and Other Stories by Olive Senior is based. The projector principle illustrates the idea that little details and images in the text serve big purposes, for example, reflect the emotional state of the characters or how the characters construct their identity. The literary analysis of the present essay aims at exploring a complicated identity construction in the context of Jamaica with its half-lost indigenous and half-remained colonial legacies through the identity construction of adolescent Jamaican protagonists of the short stories.

This thesis examines the nature and value of metafictional practices in the careers of postwar novelists. Discussions of metafiction have been central to accounts of postwar literature. Where debates in the 1980s and 1990s about metafiction tended to make claims about its distinctive political and theoretical power, recent work in the study of institutions has folded metafiction into the routine operation of the literary field, and attacked previous claims to distinctive value. In this thesis I both historicize self-reflexive literary practices in the literary field, an element largely absent from the earlier scholarship, and present historically determinate claims about the value of these practices, an element I suggest is missing from the more recent work. To do so, I turn to the study of autobiography, specifically Philippe Lejeune's concept of 'autobiographical space.' In the first chapter, I explore how J. M. Coetzee develops academic literary criticism in his fiction. In the second chapter, I examine how Janet Frame responds to both the demands of a national literature and biographical inquiry into her life. In the third chapter, I address how Philip Roth handles the relationship between the politics of identity and the postwar novel. Self-reflexive practices, I show throughout, are ways of writing that were encouraged by particular formations in the literary field and were handled by writers through more or less explicit treatments of autobiographical space. I argue, though, that while these practices can be remarkably inventive, they carry no guarantees for political, theoretical, or aesthetic value.

This thesis concerns the development of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) through reading a work of postcolonial literature (The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera, 2005) in an English class. The theoretical part explains notions such as intercultural communicative competence and culture. It also describes the benefits of reading in ELT. The practical part presents a project consisting of altogether twelve lessons dedicated to reading The Whale Rider. The aim of the project is to support the pupils' development of ICC, make them aware of other English-speaking cultures than just the traditionally presented ones and, last but not least, to develop their language skills. The outcome of the project is, besides the expected raised level of ICC, which is, however, hard to measure, a poster about Maori culture realized by the pupils. KEY WORDS intercultural communicative competence, postcolonial literature, reading, English language teaching, The Whale Rider

La migration est l’une des questions les plus troublantes dans le monde contemporain. Elle expose la fragilité de l’être humain qui se trouve dans une situation de changement radical et de transition tumultueuse. À cause de la violence qui est impliquée dans ce processus, le sujet plonge dans une position de vulnérabilité aiguë et la représentation de cet aspect dans la littérature et le cinéma francophones est saisissante et puissante. Notre travail considère le vécu difficile du migrant et la violence qui est exercée sur ce dernier à partir de trois grands axes ; le point de départ, le voyage et le point d’arrivée. Les auteurs et les réalisateurs qui, dans leurs œuvres, traitent de la figure du migrant ou l’incluent, révèlent la réalité complexe de l’expérience de la migration qui, dans la conscience collective occidentale, est généralement tronquée, simplifiée et/ou complètement écartée. L’étude de la représentation littéraire et filmique permet d’explorer les stratégies artistiques qui sont employées pour dire et montrer l’expérience au lecteur/spectateur et d’établir un réseau de connexions qui concrétise la souffrance et le tourment que l’Autre, pris dans le piège de la migration, subit. / Migration is one of the most disturbing and soul-searching issues in the contemporary world. It exposes the fragility of the human being who finds himself in a situation of radical change and turbulent transition. Owing to the violence involved in the process, the subject is plunged in a position of acute vulnerability and the representation of this aspect in francophone literature and cinema is striking and powerful. This work examines the difficult life of the migrant and the violence that is exerted on the latter from three main axes; the starting point or the point of departure, the voyage and the point of arrival. The authors and filmmakers who, in their works, deal with the figure of the migrant or include it, reveal the complex reality of the experience of migration which, in Western collective consciousness, is usually truncated, simplified and/or dismissed completely. The study of the literary and cinematic representation allows for the exploration of the artistic strategies employed to transmit the experience to the reader/spectator and for the establishment of a network of connections which concretises the suffering and the torment that the Other, caught in the snare of migration, endures.

Os estudos que registram a Amazônia na passagem dos séculos XIX-XX representam um significativo material documental linguístico-antropológico, por sua motivação de registrar os costumes e os valores dos povos indígenas por meio da construção literária, nesta Língua Geral ou Nheengatu, à época deixando de ser a mais falada na região. Carregados de informações científicas, de espaço e de memória, esses textos influenciaram a partir de uma literatura de informação a construção de uma literatura nacional, que corroborou na constituição de uma intencional identidade brasileira. Literatura esta que amplia o universo dos ideais românticos e contribui para o entendimento de um processo de contato de forças e culturas diversas. Busca-se, assim, tratar esse registro documental a partir de questionamentos e comparações acerca do percurso e presentificação da memória, individual e coletiva, dessas sociedades indígenas, por meio dos mitos e narrativas com os ritos e toda sua simbologia do passado integrada à do presente que remetem tanto a diferentes esferas da verdade quanto a diversas concepções de tempo-espaço, e quanto à própria formação da identidade. As narrativas aqui representam esse ciclo em que rupturas e reconfigurações são interpretadas como a formação de uma nova humanidade, porém sem a descontinuidade da ancestralidade a partir da memória. Buscamos traçar um pouco de uma ruptura, a chegada da civilização e suas consequências, a povos milenares por meio de um arcabouço literário construído por intermediários, ou seja, autores que concretizaram a passagem de uma tradição, baseados quase completamente em fontes anteriores, produzindo pesquisas contemporâneas, manuais, dicionários que apresentavam informações dos saberes e cultura dos povos amazônicos. / The studies that register the Amazon in the transition from the 19th to the 20th century represent an expressive linguistic and anthropological material due to the intention of register the habits and values of the indigenous people by the literary construction in Língua Geral (General Language) or Nheengatu, that no longer was the most spoken language in the period. Loaded of memories, landscapes and scientific information, these texts have influenced the construction of a national literature, though the perspective of the literature of information, that corroborated the construction of Brazilian identity formation. This literature expands the universe of romantic ideals and contributes to the understanding of a contact process of various forces and cultures. Therefore, the intention of this documentary record through questions and comparisons about the course and presentification of memory, individual and collective, of indigenous societies, through the myths and narratives that reveal the rites and all symbolism of the past integrated to the present referring to different perspectives of true as to different conceptions of time and space, and the own identity formation. The narratives here represent this cycle where ruptures and reconfigurations are interpreted as the formation of a new humanity, but without the discontinuity of ancestry from memory. We search to draw a rupture, the arrival of civilization and its consequences, to the ancient people through a literary framework constructed by intermediaries, i.e. authors who realized the passage of a tradition, based almost entirely on ancient sources, producing research contemporary, manuals, dictionaries presenting information of the knowledge and culture from Amazon peoples.

Submitted by Geandra Rodrigues (geandrar@gmail.com) on 2018-10-11T11:42:19Z No. of bitstreams: 1 priscilladecarvalhomaiaventura.pdf: 1183551 bytes, checksum: 4ead0853680bdd66398d3eb51033bed9 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2018-10-16T13:52:02Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 priscilladecarvalhomaiaventura.pdf: 1183551 bytes, checksum: 4ead0853680bdd66398d3eb51033bed9 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-10-16T13:52:02Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 priscilladecarvalhomaiaventura.pdf: 1183551 bytes, checksum: 4ead0853680bdd66398d3eb51033bed9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-07-13 / A presente dissertação propõe o estudo das consequências da dominação colonial britânica sobre a República Federal da Nigéria no que concerne à religião, educação, língua, raça e gênero, tendo como objetos de análise Things Fall Apart (1958) de Chinua Achebe e Purple Hibiscus (2003) de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. A maneira de ler e produzir literatura vem se metamorfoseando ao longo dos séculos XX e XXI, abrindo espaço para que despontem as literaturas pós-coloniais, isto é, obras que possuem como atributo comum o fato de emergirem da experiência da colonização. Impulsionada por este contexto, a produção literária africana vem conquistando espaço e notoriedade no cenário mundial. Este trabalho busca relacionar literatura e situação sócio-política, trazendo para o debate vozes historicamente silenciadas e abrindo possibilidades de resistência às perspectivas impostas pelo olhar do colonizador, através da investigação da literatura nigeriana. Embora o período de dominação britânica sobre a Nigéria tenha chegado ao fim, as consequências de tal política ainda se fazem presentes no cotidiano daquele povo, seja na religião tradicional brutalmente substituída pelo cristianismo, nos idiomas autóctones que perdem lugar para a língua inglesa, no sistema de aprendizado estrangeiro que toma o lugar do ensino familiar ou na valorização da pele branca e do sistema patriarcal de poder. Tendo destacado papel no estabelecimento da estrutura colonial, busca-se aqui converter a literatura em instrumento de libertação. / The present thesis proposes the study of the consequences of British colonialism over the Federal Republic of Nigeria concerning religion, education, language, race and gender, having as objects of analyses Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe and Purple Hibiscus (2003) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The way in which literature is written and read has been changing throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, opening space to the postcolonial literatures, that is, literatures that have as a common background the fact that they come from the experience of colonialism. Propelled by this context, African literary production has been achieving space and renown in the global scenery. This work aims to relate literature and social-political situation, bringing to the debate historically silenced voices, opening possibilities to resist the colonial gaze while investigating the Nigerian literature. Even though the british colonial rule has come to an end, the consequences of this politics are still present in the daily lives of that people, in the fact that traditional religion was brutally substituted by Christianism, in the ancient languages replaced by English, in the educational system that took over home schooling, in the valorization of white skin and the patriarchal power system. Literature has a central role in establishing colonial structures and this work tries to convert literature into a liberation tool.

Dans les romans et nouvelles d’Earl Lovelace, l'île de Trinidad se trouve aux confluents de systèmes antagonistes, branlés par la récente décolonisation. Les forces civiles et religieuses, piliers de l’organisation sociétale, ne peuvent échapper aux dynamiques de transmutation et d’adaptation. Ainsi, dans un contexte de sécularisation et de politisation croissante, le religieux se voit obligé d’écarter toute tendance autarcique, s’il veut triompher de la tentative d’annexion par le politique. Un conflit, dont l’enjeu n’est autre que la survie de l’individu, est dès lors engagé. Cette thèse se propose d’explorer les relations de rivalité et d’usurpation entre pouvoirs civils et religieux de même que l’issue du dépassement de cette dichotomie au sein de la Caraïbe lovelacienne. En d’autres termes, le politique dans la fiction de Lovelace détruit-il le religieux ou fait-il corps avec lui afin que s’opère le passage d’une politique condamnable à une foi praxis de libération ? / In his novels and short stories, Earl Lovelace describes the island of Trinidad as caught in the ebb and flow of two antagonistic systems of thought, both shattered in the event of a sudden decolonisation. Religion and politics, the corner stones of social architecture, have no choice but to undergo changes in view of adaptation. Facing a background of secularisation and growing political consciousness, religion is compelled to lay aside its selfsufficiency to avoid being overthrown by the body politics. As a consequence, a struggle, in which the survival of individuals is at stake, ensues. This thesis offers to explore the rivalries between the religious and political bodies as well as the ability of Lovelace’s fictional Caribbean to overcome this dichotomy. In other words, in Lovelace’s work does polity annihilate religion or act in accordance with it to achieve a move from unworthy politics to a faith aiming at liberation?

The social sciences have developed robust bodies of scholarship on expertise and professionalism, yet literary analyses of the two remain comparatively sparse. I address this gap in Boundaries of Knowledge by examining recent Anglophone fiction and showing that expertise and professionalism are central concerns of contemporary authors, both as subject matter in fiction and in their public identities. I argue that the novelists studied use and abuse expertise and professionalism: they critique professions as participant observers, and also borrow the mantle of expert credibility to bolster their own cultural capital while documenting the pitfalls of expertise in their fiction. My first chapter shows how acquired technical knowledge and professionalism are the central concerns of Ian McEwan’s Saturday. In the novel, Henry Perowne’s professionalism is the site from which various ethical and political debates radiate. Perowne—depicted as a rather heroic expert in comparison to the other novels studied in the dissertation—is disturbed by a total outsider in the form of Baxter, a man with no prospects or future, professional or otherwise. McEwan aligns himself more closely with Perowne: in part through extensive research for Saturday, he has developed a reputation as a public figure who straddles the “two cultures” of the sciences and humanities, a reputation that exists in a synergistic relationship with his particular brand of realist fiction, which emphasizes hard work and professional credibility. Next, I demonstrate how Zadie Smith’s On Beauty reveals a deep suspicion of academia, which in the novel serves to cut disciplinary experts off both from the world outside campus and from an appreciation of the subjects they study. Smith’s academic professionals are well-intentioned but unable to look beyond field-specific boundaries to appreciate their objects of study (and unintentionally harm outsiders along the way). Larger issues such as race are always present but at the margins of the interpersonal drama that plays out between the novel’s numerous characters. I read Smith herself as reluctantly accepting academic life, teaching at New York University while maintaining a qualified distance from American academia in articles and interviews. Chapters one and two are broadly about the advantages and drawbacks of expert knowledge, respectively. In my third chapter, Abdulrazak Gurnah offers the most circumspect view of experts yet with a fear of a “summarizing” expert or colonizer of knowledge that is only resolved by the arrival of a more authentic Zanzibari expert. In an analysis of Gurnah’s By the Sea, I show how professional networks--the United Kingdom’s immigration and refugee system, the colonial education system in Zanzibar, and the professoriate--raise questions about who is entitled to and capable of narrating people’s lives. These questions dovetail both with the novel’s shifting narrative form and with the concerns of Gurnah’s own work as a scholar of literature. Beginning with McEwan and ending with Gurnah, Boundaries of Knowledge travels from the most socially and economically secure, elite experts to those left behind by contemporary professionalism. My title reflects this troubled landscape of expert knowledge and professionalism: who knows what, the benefits and drawbacks of the accompanying cultural capital, and the barriers between various fields, sets of knowledge, and finally people.

Résumé Véritable récit de filiation, Meursault, contre-enquête de Kamel Daoud, chroniqueur et écrivain algérien d’expression française, prolonge et transgresse l’univers fictionnel de L’Étranger de Camus selon le point de vue de l’Arabe. Publié aux éditions Barzakh en Algérie, le roman reçoit le prix Goncourt du premier roman en 2015. Dans le roman de Camus, Meursault abat un Arabe sur une plage d’Alger, la victime n’a pas d’identité, elle demeure anonyme, le texte de Camus ne lui attribuant aucune agentivité. Le roman de Daoud nait de ce qui est interprété comme une injustice par Haroun, frère de l’Arabe assassiné et narrateur du récit qui va, dès lors, revendiquer un devoir de mémoire et de réhabilitation tout en s’inscrivant dans une réflexion sur l’Algérie contemporaine. Dans ce mémoire, nous examinons dans le premier chapitre les différents procédés théoriques soit l’intertextualité, la transtextualité et la transfictionnalité qui permettent de comprendre comment Kamel Daoud met en scène le chemin que Haroun parcourt, sur le modèle du palimpseste, pour dire l’Histoire/l’histoire de sa famille, ses états d’âme et pour exposer la problématique de l’identité algérienne et sa relation tumultueuse avec le passé colonial. Dans le deuxième chapitre, nous voyons par quels moyens Daoud prolonge le roman de Camus par l’invention de personnage et la restructuration des lieux et des évènements. Enfin, le dernier chapitre s’intéresse à la portée idéologique et politique de l’œuvre de Daoud et ce qu’elle implique comme lecture et réécriture postcoloniale de l’œuvre camusienne. / Abstract A true story of parentage, Meursault, a counter-investigation is by Kamel Daoud, an Algerian columnist and writer of French expression. He prolongs and transgresses the fictional universe of Camus’s The Stranger from the point of view of the Arab. Published by Barzakh editions in Algeria, the novel receives the Goncourt Prize for the first novel in 2015. In Camus’s novel, Meursault shoots an Arab on a beach in Alger. The victim has no identity and remains anonymous; Camus’s text does not attribute any agency to it. Daoud’s novel is born from what is interpreted as an injustice by Haroun, brother of the murdered Arab and narrator of the story which will, from then on, avow a duty of commemoration and rehabilitation while being part of a reflection of contemporary Algeria. In this thesis, we examine in the first chapter the different theoretical processes, namely intertextuality, transtextuality and transfictionality which allow us to understand how Kamel Daoud stages the path that Haroun follows, on the model of the palimpsest, to say the History/the history of his family, his moods and to expose the problem of Algerian identity and its tumultuous relationship with the colonial past. In the second chapter, we see by what means Daoud extends Camus’s novel through the invention of a character and the restructuring of places and events. Finally, the last chapter looks at the ideological and political significance of Daoud’s work and what it implies as postcolonial reading and rewriting of the camusian work.

The diploma thesis is concerned with the portrayal of the Windrush generation, the first wave of immigrants coming to Britain from its former colonies, in Andrea Levy's Small Island (2004) and Samuel Selvon's The Lonely Londoners (1956). The theoretical part of the thesis outlines the socio-historical and cultural overview of the rising immigration to Britain after the Second World War, which according to the selected secondary sources contributed to the increase of racism and discrimination, namely against people of Caribbean origin. The thesis further presents principal concepts of postcolonial and Anglophone Caribbean literature and examines both authors' personal experience with immigration as well as the idiosyncratic features of their writing. These are essential for understanding the literary works of the selected authors and the subsequent interpretation of their literary depiction of the immigrant experience. The practical part of the thesis relies on the theoretical part and focuses on the comparison of the two novels, their presentation and view of the so-called Windrush generation with specific attention paid to their form and content. Simultaneously, the work examines how the literary depictions of the immigrant experience correspond to the theory presented. Moreover, the thesis...