Cette thèse de maîtrise porte sur l’oppression des femmes provenant des pays en voie de développement et a comme but d’éveiller la conscience des gens à ce sujet. Une explication détaillée de la philosophie féministe existentialiste de Simone de Beauvoir sera donnée en se référant aux œuvres Pyrrhus et Cinéas, Pour une morale de l’ambiguïté, et Le deuxième sexe. Suite à cette explication, les témoignages de trois femmes provenant de différents pays seront analysés. Dans le premier, il s’agit de l’œuvre de Souad, Brûlée vive, de la Cisjordanie. Le deuxième est intitulé Le voile de la peur, signé Samia Shariff, de l’Algérie. Enfin, la troisième œuvre est celle d’Ayaan Hirsi Ali, d’origine somalienne. Chaque témoignage se concentre sur des difficultés précises : l’analphabétisme et les crimes d’honneur ; le mariage forcé et les difficultés de l’immigration ; la religion musulmane oppressive et le danger de s’y opposer. De plus, nous allons brièvement faire référence à deux autres œuvres qui évoquent les mêmes difficultés, dont les origines sont de l’Arabie Saoudite et du Maroc : Défigurée de Rania Al-Baz et Mariée de force de Leila. L’analyse des témoignages féminins sera faite afin de démontrer la possibilité d’émancipation pour les femmes des pays en voie de développement et la pertinence de la philosophie de Simone de Beauvoir.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, Dept. of Comparative Literature, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2007. / Title from title screen (site viewed October 13, 2009). PDF text: 158 p. ; 827 K. UMI publication number: AAT 3355627. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2008. / Title from file title page. Andrew Jason Cohen, Christie Hartley, committee co-chairs; Peter Lindsay, committee members. Electronic text (55 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed June 24, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 54-55).

Doct. thesis--Department of English--Uppsala, 1992.

Dissertation (Ed.D.)--The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2008. / Directed by Svi Shapiro; submitted to the School of Education. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed Aug. 12, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-129).

Apartheid South Africa was variously imprisoned, exiled, and engaged in the task of homecoming. This troika permeated society as reality, symbol and creative capital; as a political reality each of the experiences distilled the diverse human possibilities and potentials of apartheid. This is a study of the linked political encounters of detention/imprisonment, exile and homecoming, as well as the more general dynamics of oppression and resistance and the culture of violence, through the life story genre. Within the dynamics of struggle the focus of the thesis is on the transformative nature of resistance, in particular auto/biographical counter-discourses, as a means through which opponents of apartheid retained/regained agency and power. The main aim of the thesis is to articulate and apply a theory of life story praxis in the context of political contestation. The theory has five main components. Firstly, the life story in such contexts is marked by the imperative for narratives to be provisional, partial, tactical, to be managed in accordance with an evolving political purpose. The second component relates to the violent collaboration of state and opponent in identity construction and interpretation. This argument facilitates, as the third theoretical premise, a broad definition of texts that either are auto/biographical or impact upon the context and process of narration. Fourthly, lives are told many times over, identities are repeatedly un/remade, within an arena that is dense with prior versions and/or a discursive void. Finally, I argue that the ownership and meaning of life story narratives are provisional and contested while retaining a dominant narrative and political truth. In the main body of the thesis this theory is applied to the life stories of incarceration, exile, and homecoming.

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