Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Washington, 2005. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 257-265).

Tesis para optar al grado de Doctor en Literatura

Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2004. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 151 p. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-148).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Supervisors: John P. Farrell and Adam Zachary Newton. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Cette thèse propose une lecture croisée des épopées traditionnelles et postcoloniales dans un cadre transculturel. Une analyse comparée de Moby Dick de Herman Melville, Omeros de Derek Walcott et la trilogie de l’Ibis d’Amitav Ghosh nous permet de cerner spécificités de l’épopée moderne postcoloniale. Celle-ci s’inscrit dans la lignée des épopées traditionnelles d’Homère, Virgile, Arioste, Camões et Milton, tout en rivalisant avec elles. Les épopées traditionnelles et modernes ont recours à des conventions qui esthétisent l’expérience collective comme les comparaisons épiques, la généalogie présentée sous forme de prophétie et la mise en abyme ekphrastique. L’épopée traditionnelle met en avant la vision d’une société unifiée grâce à des conjonctions harmonieuses entre le trope et la diégèse, des continuités généalogiques entre l’ancêtre et le descendant ainsi que des associations autoréflexives ekphrastiques entre l’histoire impériale et le texte qui la glorifie. Dans cette perspective, la spécificité de l’épopée postcoloniale semble résider dans l’articulation ambivalente de la condition postcoloniale. Ainsi, chez Melville, Walcott et Ghosh, le style héroï-comique contrebalance les comparaisons épiques opérant des transfigurations héroïques. De même, de nouvelles affiliations hybrides forgées par les personnages coexistent avec des généalogies discontinues, sans en combler toutes les lacunes créées par le déracinement et la violence coloniale. Cette vision équivoque trouve son expression la plus franche dans les séquences ekphrastiques où les textes sont confrontés au choix impossible entre commémoration de l’expérience et regard critique vis-à-vis d’elle. / This thesis offers collocational readings of traditional and postcolonial epics in transcultural frameworks. It investigates the specificities of modern postcolonial epic through a comparative analysis of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, Derek Walcott’s Omeros, and Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis trilogy. It explores how these works emulate, but also rival, the traditional epics of Homer, Virgil, Ariosto, Camões, and Milton. Both traditional and postcolonial epic rely on generic conventions in order to aestheticize collective experience, setting it against the natural world (via epic similes), against history and imperial destiny (via genealogy and prophecy), and against the epic work itself (via ekphrasis). However, traditional epic emphasizes a unified worldview, characterized by harmonious conjunctions between trope and diegesis, genealogical continuities between ancestor and descendant, and self-reflexive ekphrastic associations between imperial history and the epic text commissioned to glorify it. From this perspective, the specificity of postcolonial epic can be formulated in terms of its ambivalent articulation of the postcolonial condition. In the works of Melville, Walcott, and Ghosh, tropes of heroic transfiguration are held in check by the mock-heroic, while empowering self-adopted hybrid affiliations co-exist, but cannot entirely compensate for, discontinuous genealogies marked by displacement, deracination, and colonial violence. This ambivalence finds its most powerful expression in the ekphrastic sequences where the postcolonial texts are most directly confronted with the impossible choice between commemorating experience and being critical of such commemoration.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-171) and index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-171) and index.

VIEIRA, Lílian Cavalcanti Fernandes. Omeros: vozes de identidade e cultura em Derek Walcott. 2012. 154f. – Tese (Doutorado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Brasileira, Fortaleza (CE), 2012. / Submitted by Márcia Araújo (marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-03-12T17:29:18Z No. of bitstreams: 1 2012-TESE-LCFVIEIRA.pdf: 1359253 bytes, checksum: 01a1295b5eea11cc0a9f6cecb0c1f126 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Márcia Araújo(marcia_m_bezerra@yahoo.com.br) on 2014-03-13T13:45:30Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 2012-TESE-LCFVIEIRA.pdf: 1359253 bytes, checksum: 01a1295b5eea11cc0a9f6cecb0c1f126 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-03-13T13:45:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 2012-TESE-LCFVIEIRA.pdf: 1359253 bytes, checksum: 01a1295b5eea11cc0a9f6cecb0c1f126 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012 / The main purpose of this work is to analyze the thematic identity and culture of African basis through the work OMEROS written by the afro Caribbean writer and Literature Nobel Prize winner (1992), Derek Walcott. His work allows the focus to issues like the discussion of concepts such as identity and culture as political acts and artifacts of a good education, the affirmation of the process of black consciousness and the recovery of the enslaved one as the subject of a social history through post-colonial literature. The knowledge and study of this literature can contribute a great deal to the intellectual formation of educators as well as it may open paths to areas of philosophy of Brazilian education through the deepening in the culture of African basis during the Diaspora serving as a contribution to cultural diversity. / Este trabalho tem como objetivo investigar e analisar a questão da identidade e cultura de matriz africana por meio da obra do autor afro-caribenho e Prêmio Nobel de Literatura em 1992, Derek Walcott, cuja obra ainda não encontra no Brasil um estudo e divulgação adequados. Com essa proposta, estamos cooperando com a lei no. 10.639/03 para a afirmação do processo de consciência negra por meio da busca de um processo identitário que permeia os escritos do autor, analisando o entre-lugar do discurso do poeta e suas possíveis influências na produção de identidade e cultura no Brasil. Parte-se do pressuposto da pertinência de se fazer uma reflexão sobre identidade e cultura como atos políticos, ao divulgar e expor a riqueza cultural afro ou afrodescendente sob uma nova ótica, recuperando o escravizado como sujeito de uma história social, mostrando a infâmia do escravismo e reforçando as ações afirmativas no contexto brasileiro. O conhecimento e o estudo dessa literatura identitária pode contribuir tanto para a formação de educadores como abrir caminhos para as áreas de filosofia da educação brasileira pelo aprofundamento na cultura de base africana na diáspora, servindo de aporte às diversidades culturais.

This thesis analyzes three of the plays inspired by the Haitian Revolution and written by black playwrights. The first chapter covers William Edgar Easton’s Dessalines, a Dramatic Tale: A Single Chapter from Haiti’s History. It discusses Easton’s decision to depict Dessalines as a man of faith, a believer, a Christian. The second chapter employs Langston Hughes’ play, Troubled Island, to argue Dessalines’ modernity. The third play, by Saint Lucian playwright Derek Walcott, is The Haitian Earth. The thesis concludes with a brief discussion of his play and its contribution to black consciousness. I propose that the revolution plays a major role in World History, and argue that the Haitian Revolution served as a looking glass to many African Americans in search of a black identity. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2014. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

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