Most research into contemporary French West Indian literature focuses on writing that stresses the significance of the plantation and urban cultures of the islands in the early to mid-twentieth century or, more recently, on the desire of some writers to explore broader trans-national influences or environments. Despite the prominence of migration in post-war French West Indian history, however, less has been said about the engagement of French West Indian literature with migration to metropolitan France. Although commentators have recently begun to discuss the work of a handful of writers in connection with migration to the métropole, this thesis offers a full-length analysis of the issue, bringing writers, texts and literary and cultural theories together with the cultural and sociological context of migration to metropolitan France. I comment on a variety of well-known authors and texts, while also presenting writers and writing that have frequently been neglected in other studies. I also consider the reasons for what I believe to be both the slow development of a literature of migration, as well as the low profile of this issue within Francophone literary studies. Part One, ‘French and West Indian: Historical and Sociological Contexts’, considers the broad context of migration, reflecting on how that context impacts on the West Indians and their descendants in the métropole. Part Two, ‘Theory and the French West Indian Diaspora’, looks at colonisation, postcolonial criticism, and the current scholarship devoted to them, as these concern the issues of migration and identity in sociological and literary terms. Part Three, ‘Patterns of Discourse: Reflections of the Métropole’, takes recurrent themes that have appeared in the works of a variety of less well-known writers, including writers of West Indian origin born in the métropole. In Part Four, ‘Siting the Métropole’, I examine three successful yet very different writers and consider their contributions to the literature of migration, in the light of the reflections made and the patterns uncovered earlier in this thesis. My conclusion unites the themes of inclusion and exclusion that this subject brings to the fore, and suggests potential literary and scholarly developments for the future.

Cette thèse envisage la notion de francophonie comme effet de discours et étudie les modalités socio-institutionnelles et rhétoriques de son élaboration et de sa circulation, de la fin du XIXe siècle à la fin du XXe siècle. Ce travail se montre particulièrement attentif à la manière dont les discours sur la francophonie instrumentalisent diverses conceptions du littéraire et contribuent ainsi à infléchir, encore aujourdhui, la constitution dune épistémologie des études littéraires francophones. Lune des principales hypothèses qui guide cette thèse est que lépistémologie des études littéraires francophones ne peut être fondée sans une appréhension socio-historique des discours métalittéraires (singulièrement, les historiographies littéraires) portés sur les diverses littératures quon tend aujourdhui à rassembler sous létiquette de « francophonie littéraire ». Dans cette perspective, nous nous attachons dun côté à la nébuleuse des discours sur la francophonie en tant que projet institutionnel porté par des justifications culturelles, de lautre à la succession des paradigmes historiographiques employés en Belgique, en Suisse romande et au Québec pour produire des représentations des littératures de ces trois ensembles. Les points darticulation entre ces deux lignées, baptisées « francodoxie » pour la première, « péri-francodoxie » pour la seconde, sont précisément ce que lanalyse a cherché à mettre au jour, à savoir lappropriation, par les périphéries, de normes rhétoriques et idéologiques qui définissent le rapport francodoxe à la littérature ; cette appropriation, plus ou moins problématique, plus ou moins fonctionnelle, doit répondre à lenjeu dune valorisation spécifique des corpus envisagés par les historiographies littéraires périphériques. Ces deux exposés socio-historiques sappuient sur une importante discussion théorique sur les outils danalyse utilisés. Ceux-ci puisent essentiellement à lanalyse institutionnelle, à la théorie du discours social et à la rhétorique argumentative et visent à justifier la pertinence du discours métalittéraire comme point dobservation privilégié des mécanismes institutionnels et rhétoriques qui définissent la francophonie. Pivot de notre développement, le concept de francodoxie désigne le système régulateur (ensemble de procédés rhétoriques et de répertoires de lieux communs) qui prédétermine la production des discours sur la francophonie. Quant au discours métalittéraire, il est conçu comme un lieu de médiations, porteur de représentations plus ou moins efficaces de la valeur littéraire. Les conclusions de notre travail proposent une vision schématique et récapitulative de la façon dont se répartissaient les fonctions rhétoriques des grandes représentations mises en évidence dans les discours examinés (représentations de lhistoire, de la France, de la valeur littéraire, de la société). Cette systématisation nous a permis de justifier un partage entre les discours historiographiques de la francophonie Nord (privilégiés par notre étude) et ceux de la francophonie Sud : les premiers se concentrent sur les représentations de la société, tandis que les seconds sappuient sur des représentations de la France et de la valeur littéraire pour construire la légitimité de leur objet. En outre, cette systématisation ambitionne de définir un nouvel ordre de problématiques pour qui entend sinscrire dans les études francophones. En parlant de francodoxie plutôt que de francophonie, en mettant en perspective les modalités de production de la valeur littéraire des objets francophones, nous avons également voulu ouvrir la possibilité dune interrogation sur le type de savoir aujourdhui possible sur ces objets et proposer le cadre dune francodoxologie comme horizon détude envisageable : horizon dune étude socio-rhétorique de la production aussi bien doxique que théorique de la valeur symbolique et de la fonction idéologique de la littérature, « francophone » parmi dautres.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2001. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 282-291).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 223-244). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.

Kaip buvo numatyta bakalauro darbo „Paauglystės vaizdavimas Algimanto Zurbos romanuose paaugliams“ (2010) išvadose, šiame darbe tęsiamas sovietmečiu populiaraus ir šiuo metu vis dar kuriančio rašytojo Algimanto Zurbos (g. 1942) kūrybos tyrinėjimas. Praplečiami Zurbos kūrybos sociokultūriniai aspektai, tyrinėjama rašytojo vieta lyginant sovietmečio ir šiandienos literatūros lauką ¬– taigi linkstama ne prie meninės kūrinių analizės, kuri buvo atlikta bakalauro darbe, o prie politinių, socialinių, kultūrinių kontekstų, nulėmusių Zurbos kūrybos savitumą. Šie sociokultūriniai Zurbos kūrybos tyrimai paremti žymiausio prancūzų sociologo Pierre‘o Bourdieu literatūros lauko teorija bei lietuvių literatūros sociologės Loretos Jakonytės darbais, kuriuose išsamiai aprašoma lietuvių literatūros lauko raida. Remiantis dr. Valdemaro Klumbio disertacija „Lietuvos kultūrinio elito elgsenos modeliai sovietmečiu“ (2009), analizuojami Zurbos santykiai su sovietmečio valdžios institucijomis, pabrėžiamas rašytojui būdingas išorinio prisitaikymo modelis, susijęs su viešai deklaruojama valdžiai palankia laikysena, bet ne ideologinės pasaulėžiūros perėmimu. Kontekstinė kūrinių analizė paremta prancūzų pragmatikos atstovo Dominique Maingueneau literatūros konteksto teorija bei prancūzo sociokritikos atstovo Pierre‘o Barberr‘o darbais. Pagrindiniai tyrinėjimų šaltiniai – Zurbos publicistika, skelbta įvairiuose periodiniuose leidiniuose bei autobiografija „Gal taip reikėjo“ (2012). Darbe siekiama... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / As it was foreseen in the BA paper “Paauglystės vaizdavimas Algimanto Zurbos romanuose”, this paper continues analysing Algimantas Zurba’s (b. 1942), who was popular during soviet times and is still creating nowadays, creation. The sociocultural aspects of Zurba’s creation were extended by analysing the place of the writer by comparing the field of soviet times’ and today’s literature – therefore it is tend not to the artistic analysis of works, which was done in the BA paper, but to political, social, cultural contexts that determined the peculiarity of Zurba’s creation. This sociocultural research of Zurba’s creative work is based on the most famous French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s literature field theory and Lithuanian literature sociologist Loreta Jakonytė’s works, in which the development of Lithuanian literature field is exhaustively described. In accordance with Dr. Valdemaras Klumbys’ thesis “Lietuvos kultūrinio elito elgsenos modeliai sovietmečiu” (2009), the relationships of Zurba and soviet government institutions are analysed; the emphasis is put on typical for the writer external adjustment model, which is related to publicly declared, favourable to the government, attitude, but not to ideological worldview support. Contextual analysis of works is based on the representative of French pragmatics Dominique Maingueneau’s literature context theory and on the representative of French socio-criticism Pierre Barberr’s works. The sources of the research are... [to full text]

The thesis deals with the problems of translating "soft-sell" advertisements between Arabic and English. It is argued that a standardisation strategy of any international advertising campaign across cultures of soft-sell advertising is unsuccessful at any time in the case of Arabic and English. This stems not only from, besides the huge differences already existing between the two languages and cultures, such as socio-economic and socio-political, but also from the different methods and strategies adopted by the copywriters in employing various elements of humour, irony, persuasion, taboos (e.g. sexual connotations), conceptual sarcasm and cultural intertextuality, which are aimed at particular audiences, and the translation of which is determined by the elements of time and space. Localisation, according to the characters of the local market is thus the best solution for any successful cross-cultural advertising. The development of the role of culture and language in a given society has also been illustrated, followed by various approaches to cultural translation equivalence and cultural translation difficulties between Arabic and English. The thesis also contains a study of the techniques and methods of advertising. This includes elements of persuasion, strategies of standardisation, language and paralanguage of advertising, style of advertising and deviation in advertising from the norm of standard English.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 288-303).

Orientador: Elide Rugai Bastos / Dissertação (Mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Filosofia e Ciencias Humanas / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-11T02:38:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Chaguri_MarianaMiggiolaro_M.pdf: 3773083 bytes, checksum: 33e772b580976912ae3d0146d08c152f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa pretende recuperar a partir dos romances do Ciclo da Cana-de-Açúcar e das crônicas de José Lins do Rego (1901-1957), os contextos intelectuais e os processos sociais envolvidos na dinâmica de decadência dos engenhos e de ascensão das usinas na zona canavieira nordestina. Para tanto, reconstrói as ambiências intelectuais vivenciadas pelo autor nos anos 20 no Recife (dando particular atenção ao Regionalismo e ao modo como este perpassa a obra de José Lins) e no Rio de Janeiro durante os anos 30 e 40 (o lugar e o momento da consagração literária do romancista). Desse modo, são analisadas as polêmicas estéticas e políticas travadas pelo romancista ao longo da década de 20. São mapeadas, ainda, as críticas literárias aos romances do Ciclo da Cana-de-Açúcar tomando-as como um fio condutor que nos permite explorar a hipótese do Regionalismo nordestino ser compreendido como uma operação pela unidade nacional. Finalmente, a pesquisa dedica-se ao estudo dos romances do Ciclo da Cana-de-Açúcar explorando as nuances e os impasses envolvidos no processo de modernização da zona canavieira nordestina / Abstract: This research aims at reconstructing some aspects of José Lins do Rego's intellectual trajectory between the late 1920s and the late 1940s, with a focus on his novels the Ciclo da Cana-de-Açúcar and on his chronicles. The analysis starts with the reconstruction of the intellectual¿s contexts lived by the author in the 1920s in Recife (giving particular attention to the Regionalism and to the way as this get importance on the José Lins¿s novels and on his chronicles) and in Rio de Janeiro between the late 1930s and the late 1940s (the place and the moment of the literary consecration of the author). Following this, the esthetic and politics controversies in which the author was involved throughout the 1920s are analyzed. In the same way, the literary review is also analyzed and taken as a conductor wire that allows exploring the hypothesis of the Regionalism as an operation for the national unit. Finally, the research dedicates itself at study the Ciclo da Cana-de- Açúcar's novels exploring the deadlocks of the process of modernization of the sugar cane¿s farming in Brazil¿s northeastern / Mestrado / Pensamento Social Brasileiro / Mestre em Sociologia

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Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgico / O objetivo geral desse trabalho à produzir uma leitura possÃvel sobre a representaÃÃo do pobre por meio do romance O CortiÃo, de AluÃsio Azevedo. Questiona-se: De que forma o pobre surge sob a perspectiva Aluisiana? Que construtos simbÃlicos ela define e fortalece? O primeiro capÃtulo apresenta de forma sucinta a filiaÃÃo intelectual de AluÃsio Azevedo: o naturalismo, assim como descreve o campo de estudos. No capÃtulo dois, encontra-se a fundamentaÃÃo teÃrica acerca dos eixos analÃticos que sustentam a discussÃo, a saber: representaÃÃo social, sociologia da literatura e pobreza. O terceiro capÃtulo marca o inÃcio da anÃlise de dados propriamente dita. Nesta, a pobreza à exposta atravÃs dos conceitos de estigma social de Erving Goffman e de distinÃÃo social de Bourdieu, amparados nos estudos de Sevcenko. O quarto capÃtulo trata da antinomia entre disciplina para o trabalho e vadiagem, recaindo na associaÃÃo imediata entre classes pobres e classes perigosas. No capÃtulo cinco, sÃo apresentadas as teorias raciais do sÃculo XIX e sua influÃncia direta da escrita da obra O CortiÃo. à guisa de uma conclusÃo, à possÃvel afirmar que o pobre à representado por ,pelo menos, duas correntes interpretativas : a de vÃtima da estrutura social, e a de sujeito responsÃvel por seu estado de penÃria. A pobreza à um estigma que representa uma forma de violÃncia simbÃlica. Na contemporaneidade, pobre à aquele que necessita de auxÃlio, seja por intermÃdio do poder pÃblico, seja pela da caridade civil. Pensadores como Serge Paugam e Georg Simmel compreendem a pobreza pelo viÃs da tutela, do assistencialismo. O presente estudo problematiza a pobreza na perspectiva de Anthony Giddens, como algo dotado de um valor subjetivo, o qual nÃo pode ser mensurado unicamente por meio das estatÃsticas da pobreza, mas pela percepÃÃo dos prÃprios atores sociais. De forma especÃfica, buscaremos expor discursos, as ditas âproduÃÃes de verdadeâ, sobre a pobreza, percebendo com isso as metamorfoses conceituais atinentes ao sentido da pobreza; bem como o pobre deixou de representar uma conexÃo com o divino, atravÃs da economia de salvaÃÃo na Idade MÃdia para transformar-se no estorvo, obstÃculo da modernizaÃÃo. A pobreza à um problema complexo, possuindo raÃzes histÃricas, polÃticas e econÃmicas. Com esse texto, procuramos incitar uma reflexÃo sobre o pobre, sujeito social e sua teia de significaÃÃes, as quais ele està vinculado por sua simples condiÃÃo. A concepÃÃo literÃria adotada na anÃlise neste trabalho à a perspectiva mediadora, a qual seria um meio termo entre a visÃo materialista e a estÃtica ou idealista. Ela admite a criatividade do autor, a inventividade, mas permeada por idÃias, sentimentos e questÃes relativas a um contexto de produÃÃo que à social e histÃrico.