La Fille de Christophe Colomb (Paris: Gallirnard, 1969) is a novel written by Rejean Ducharme in rhyming verse resembling an epic poem In this thesis, it will be shown that the form of the novel serves to emphasize the contestation of History evident in the novel's content. While this novel is certainly unusual in Ducharme's work it fits into the ambiant literary discourse of Quebec in the 1960's, where the theories of decolonisation influenced writers and critics alike. In particular, History was seen to be imposed on Quebec from the outside; Quebec must necessarily reject this History and begin to make its own. This underlying assumption for the analysis proposed in this thesis will be demonstrated in Chapter One through reflections by Ducharme's contemporaries, existing criticism of La Fille de' Christophe Colomb, and by current theories of postcolonial writing. In Chapter Two, the epic form of the novel will be studied in detail. On the surface, the author appears to respect the "rules" of the genre, but a close reading of the text will show that this respect is only superficial, and that the rules are subverted to create tension between literary norms and Ducharme's writing. It is the narrative structure of the novel, however, that proves to be the most subversive deviation from the norms of the epic poem: although the majority of the novel is narrated in the third person, a substantial fragmentation of the narrative voice occurs which will be demonstrated in Chapter Three. The net impact of this fragmentation is to produce a conflict between the codes of the epic poem and the novel. At the end of the analysis of the relationship between literary form and contestation of History in La Fille de Christophe Colomb, it will be shown that the form, as an element separate from the content, conveys a problematic relationship between this text and History. The novel contributes to the contestation of History as practised in the literature of Quebec in the 1960's by subverting the literary code, thereby linking literary history to History as colonizing factors that are questioned in this novel. / Arts, Faculty of / French, Hispanic, and Italian Studies, Department of / Graduate

Nous avons tenté d'explorer la notion de style du traducteur en articulant les analysestraductologiques et les méthodes de la textométrie multilingue (méthodes d'analysequantitatives textuelles appliquées à des corpus de textes alignés). Notre corpus d'étude est constitué par trois traductions chinoises d'une oeuvre littéraire française, Jean-Christophe de Romain Rolland (1904-1917), réalisées respectivement par Fu Lei (1952-1953), Han Hulin(2000) et Xu Yuanchong (2000). Après une description des difficultés inhérentes à la construction d'un corpus parallèle français-chinois, nous effectuons successivement diverses mesures textométriques sur ce corpus, dans le but de mettre en évidence des usages lexicaux et syntaxiques propres à chacun des traducteurs. La remise en contexte dans le corpus parallèle des différences statistiques des phénomènes linguistiques entre traductions et l'examen des facteurs socioculturels relatifs à chacune des époques font ressortir des indicateurs du style de chaque traducteur. La recherche détaillée de type traductologique, portant sur les particules chinoises, appuyée sur des comparaisons textométriques, fournit une série d'indices révélant des approches spécifiques à chacun des traducteurs dans son travail. Les résultats de cette enquête, menée à travers la comparaison des trois versions chinoisesentre elles, puis avec le texte original français jettent les bases d'une proposition de modèle d'analyse centré sur le style du traducteur. Nous pensons que notre travail ouvre une voie à une exploration scientifique et systématique de la notion de style du traducteur dans le cadre traductologique. / We tried to explore the notion of translator's style combining the analysis of translationstudies and the multilingual textometric methods (quantitatifs textual methods applied in thecorpora of aligned texts). Our corpus research is composed of three Chinese translations of one original text in French, namely Jean-Christophe by Romain Rolland (1904-1917), translated by Fu Lei (1952-1953), Han Hulin (2000) and Xu Yuanchong (2000), respectively. After describing the difficulties in building the French-Chinese parallel corpus, we conducted successively various textometric measures on the corpus in order to highlight the specificlexical and syntactic uses of each translator. The re-contextualization in the paral corpus of thestatistical differences of linguistic phenomena between translations and the consideration of socio-cultural factors at each time reveal the indicators of each translator's style. The detailed research on Chinese particles in translations studies, based on textometric comparisons, provides rich results revealing each translator's specific approaches in his work. The results garnered from the comparison of three Chinese translations of the same text between them, then with the French original text lay the groudwork for our proposition of the analyticalmodel on translator's style. We think that our present work offers a methodology for ascientific and systematic exploration to the notion of translator's style within the translationstudies.

This thesis aims to interpret the construction of cultural identity of the Caribbean islands in Derek Walcott¡¦s The Haitian Trilogy: Henri Christophe, Drums and Colours, and The Haitian Earth. To rely on the postcolonial and cultural critics¡¦ study on mimicry, multiple voices and identity construction, I take the construction of cultural identity as a transitional process to fabricate a way to identify with the land that people live on. The colonial background and the postcolonial exploration in the Caribbean islands combined with its diverse racial components, the Caribbeans always experience the predicament in identity construction. Derek Walcott composes his writings from this complex environment and represents the identity formation through continuing observation and exploration. In Introduction, the historical context and the literary development in the Caribbean islands introduce the theme of history and cultural as the common consideration of Caribbean writers; therefore, among their writings, the construction of cultural identity situates a significant position in their writings. The Haitian Revolution plays a significant role in the cultural identity formation in the Caribbean literary writings, since it is the turning point to lead this area from colonization to postcolonial situation, and it inspires writers to review the historical incident and to rewrite the history that they, at this time, write by themselves. Derek Walcott¡¦s The Haitian Trilogy comes not from a planned writing sequel, but from spontaneously reiterative consideration of the Haitian Revolution as a means to write the history of one¡¦s own land and to construct the cultural identity from the self-articulation. Chapter Two¡XHenri Christophe examines the means of mimicry to loosen the colonial control over the colonized and furthermore subvert the colonial power. Chapter Three¡XDrums and Colours portrays the colonial and postcolonial subject relation by way of writing the colonial history and juxtaposing multiple voices of the different classes of characters. Chapter Four¡XThe Haitian Earth aims to demonstrate the struggle to free from the colonization in order to construct the cultural identity from the identification with the land rather than with the remorse of the suffering past. The conclusion collocates the above discussion about the trilogy for the transitional process of the cultural identity formation and illuminates Walcott¡¦s position on the construction of the cultural identity in the Caribbean islands and other similar areas.

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Ce travail descit les formations granitiques, gneiss de la vallée du Vénéon . Il en fait aussi une description tectonique ( 1965).

In this dissertation, we first propose to look at science-fiction as literary genre and consider the forefathers of Francophone science-fiction, determine the role of the twenty-first century writer and the role of literature in our society and future society. Secondly, we attempt a detailed textual analysis of selected works by authors Maurice Dantec, Michel Houellebecq and Jean-Christophe Rufin. Our focus lies primarily on the importance of language, its potential decline and how humans can still hope to redeem their lives with the medium of art. Finally, we consider the concepts of post-humanity, "end of humanity" and "end of history" in order to help establish criteria for a neo-humanity as described by the aforementioned novelists.

Nous avons tenté d'explorer la notion de style du traducteur en articulant les analysestraductologiques et les méthodes de la textométrie multilingue (méthodes d'analysequantitatives textuelles appliquées à des corpus de textes alignés). Notre corpus d'étude est constitué par trois traductions chinoises d'une oeuvre littéraire française, Jean-Christophe de Romain Rolland (1904-1917), réalisées respectivement par Fu Lei (1952-1953), Han Hulin(2000) et Xu Yuanchong (2000). Après une description des difficultés inhérentes à la construction d'un corpus parallèle français-chinois, nous effectuons successivement diverses mesures textométriques sur ce corpus, dans le but de mettre en évidence des usages lexicaux et syntaxiques propres à chacun des traducteurs. La remise en contexte dans le corpus parallèle des différences statistiques des phénomènes linguistiques entre traductions et l'examen des facteurs socioculturels relatifs à chacune des époques font ressortir des indicateurs du style de chaque traducteur. La recherche détaillée de type traductologique, portant sur les particules chinoises, appuyée sur des comparaisons textométriques, fournit une série d'indices révélant des approches spécifiques à chacun des traducteurs dans son travail. Les résultats de cette enquête, menée à travers la comparaison des trois versions chinoisesentre elles, puis avec le texte original français jettent les bases d'une proposition de modèle d'analyse centré sur le style du traducteur. Nous pensons que notre travail ouvre une voie à une exploration scientifique et systématique de la notion de style du traducteur dans le cadre traductologique.

Este trabajo tiene como propósito analizar la novela El reino de este mundo de Alejo Carpentier (1949), centrándose en el personaje literario de Paulina Bonaparte. Nos preguntamos si Paulina Bonaparte representa la nueva élite de Europa y la fascinación de ciertos personajes de la población del Caribe por Europa en la novela El reino de este mundo. Con esta pregunta destacamos al personaje Paulina Bonaparte desde un punto de vista nuevo, que hasta ahora no ha sido enfocado de esta manera en los estudios literarios, por lo que sabemos. La hipótesis que se formula es que Paulina Bonaparte se representa como una sinécdoque de las nuevas élites europeas durante los primeros años del siglo XIX en el libro El reino de este mundo. Principalmente hemos utilizado extractos de la novela y de artículos académicos que apoyan nuestra hipótesis. También hemos estudiado la obra analítica Historia y utopía en Alejo Carpentier de Oscar Velayos Zurdo (1990). Podemos concluir que hay indicios que muestran que Paulina Bonaparte representa la nueva élite de Europa en la novela El reino de este mundo.

In modern historiography, Henri Christophe, king of northern Haiti from 1816-1820, is generally given a negative persona due to his controlling nature and his absolutist regime, but in his correspondence, he engages in diplomatic collaborations with two British abolitionists, William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson, in order to improve his new policies and obtain international recognition. This paper argues that the Haitian king and the abolitionists engaged in a mutual collaboration in which each party benefitted from the correspondence. Christophe used the advice of the British abolitionists in order to increase the power of Haiti into a powerful black state, and Wilberforce and Clarkson helped the king position Haiti as a self-sufficient nation to fuel their abolitionist argument of the potential of post-emancipation societies.

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