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Cette thèse porte sur la littérature mauricienne (contes et nouvelles) d'expression française dès son début jusqu’à l'indépendance. L'île Maurice a connu une double colonisation importante : la colonisation française de 1715 à 1810 et la colonisation britannique de 1810 à 1968. Ces bouleversements politiques, en particulier, la reprise de l'île par les Anglais, ont donné un essor à la littérature mauricienne. Cependant, de nos jours, cette littérature est souvent oubliée ou perçue comme une suite d'imitation. En effet, à l'époque, les écrivains puisaient souvent leurs idées des oeuvres et des mouvements littéraires européens. Toutefois, vers les années 1940, une innovation est notée dans l'écriture et la thématique des oeuvres mauriciennes. Notre étude examine ainsi l'évolution dans les nouvelles et contes mauriciens, car l'invention y est. / This thesis analyses short stories of Mauritius in the French language during the colonial period. In fact, Mauritius has been colonised by the French from 1715 till 1810, and by the British from 1810 till 1968, in which year it gained its independence. These political upheavals had an impact on the literary works of that time, works which are nowadays forgotten and have often been accused of being a literature of imitation. However, in the 1940s, innovative ideas started to crop up and changes in the writings and themes are observed. This study therefore illustrates the evolution and invention in Mauritian writings especially in its short stories.

Thesis advisor: Ricco Siasoco / Hodge-Podge: A Collection of Literary Claptrap and Fictive Nonsensery is a collection of eight short stories. The stories are unrelated in terms of subject matter or style, but all fall within the broad confines of the author's world, conveniently. Titles: "The Kill"; "Hot Breath"; "Sorcery"; "A Failure of Understanding"; "Currency"; "Deserter's Execution"; "The Box"; "Commencement". / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2007. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: English. / Discipline: College Honors Program.

MASTERS School of English Student No: 9910994F / Literary criticism on the short fiction of Raymond Carver investigates frequently the narrative omissions whereby Carver renders the plight of middle and lower class America. Neither exclusively formal nor exclusively thematic critiques of Carver’s short stories explicate adequately the purposes and effects of these narrative omissions. This study, which is framed by Wolfgang Iser’s reader-response theories of ‘negation and ‘negativity’, and Michael Fried’s notion of aesthetic ‘absorption’, provides a formal and thematic reading of eight of Carver’s stories. This study argues that the reader’s investments in these omissions generate various indices of sympathetic identification. In tandem with such an inquiry, this study also examines the apparent antagonism between the realist and postmodernist strains discernible across Carver’s narratives. This antagonism is caused by Carver’s omissions, which simultaneously create the illusion of mimetic transparency and negate this transparency. The omissions that operate across Carver’s stories make the reader conscious not only of how he or she interprets the author’s words, but also how he or she interprets the world. Carver’s neo-realism, this study proposes, therefore has a far greater potential for social realism than traditional modes of realist representation.

Le romancier et journaliste Marie Aycard (Marseille, 1794-1859) n'a pas été retenu par l'histoire littéraire, comme beaucoup d'autres auteurs considérés comme "secondaires" ou "mineurs". Contemporain des grands changements qui s'opèrent dans les entreprises de presse sous Louis-Philippe (1830-1848), il participe activement à une reconfiguration de la presse politique qui s'ouvre de plus en plus à d'autres types de lectures, à finalité divertissante, en composant, à partir de 1837, des feuilletons hebdomadaires dont le succès se mesure par le grand nombre de reproductions qu'ils connaissent dans les journaux de Paris et de toutes les régions de France, dans la francophonie limitrophe ou lointaine, mais aussi en traduction dans toutes les langues européennes et sur plusieurs continents. Cette diffusion nationale et internationale, favorisée par l'absence de droit d'auteur, fait de Marie Aycard et de ses productions un ambassadeur de la culture parisienne et française dans la sphère médiatique de son temps, souvent de façon anonyme. La numérisation récente et massive de journaux du monde entier met ce phénomène en évidence de manière particulièrement saisissante et permet de reconsidérer notre approche de la "popularité" d'un contenu circulant à grande échelle, et notre compréhension du réseau médiatique, opérationnel et structuré internationalement, entré dans une dynamique d'expansion continue, dès les années 1840. / As a novelist and newspaperman, Marie Aycard (1794-1859) has been considered as a minor and obscure writer, but he undoubtedly belongs to the literary history. A witness of the great changes in the press world of his time (1830-1848), he is actively involved in the development of a new kind of contents, more devoted to entertainment, in publishing weekly chronicles and short stories, from 1837-1842 and after, which gain a large audience in being widely reproduced in Paris newspapers and magazines, in provincial papers, or foreign ones, in French but also in translation, which found their way in all the major European languages, on all the continents. This massive international circulation makes their author a kind of unofficial ambassador (and often anonymous) of the French and Parisian culture all over the world and in many periodicals and media of his time. The recent digitization of these periodicals and newspapers offers a unique way to clearly measure this phenomenon, and an opportunity to take in consideration a new tool to gauge the "popularity" of such contents. It also offers new approaches and insights in the newspaper network, organized and world-connected, ready for its continuous expansion, as early as the 1840s.

This manuscript is a collection of short fiction pieces workshopped in creative writing classes throughout my undergraduate and graduate career at Florida Atlantic University, influenced by the experimental and form-driven nature of some of the writing workshops as well as other courses I took during my years at the university. This work is especially preoccupied with the opposed and intertwined natures of genre fiction and literary fiction. Other themes include human nature, humor, food and cooking, tabletop games, and exploration of form in short fiction. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo refletir sobre o processo de assimilação imposto às populações do território angolano dos anos de 1950 e 1960 presente na obra literária Kinaxixe, de Arnaldo Santos, publicada em 1965, em Portugal, e em 1981, no Brasil. A obra de nove contos retrata a tensa convivência dos negros, mestiços e brancos nos musseques e bairros que circundam a costa luandense no auge da maior migração de brancos portugueses ao território angolano. Por meio de leis como o então recente Estatuto do Indigenato, de 1954 e o Acto Colonial, de 1933 acirram-se as diferenças sociais. Esse plano jurídico foi baseado em teorias darwinistas do século XIX e lido de maneira hierarquizante e subjugadora, separando as populações do território angolano como não civilizados ou assimilados, e fazendo dos portugueses, em oposição, supostamente, civilizados, aptos a colonizar as populações do território baseado, por isso, na suposta superioridade cultural e social. / This present paper aims to study the assimilation process imposed on the populations of the Angolan territory in the 1950s and in the 1960s seen in the literary work Kinaxixe, by Arnaldo Santos, published in Lisbon, Portugal in 1965 and in Brazil, in 1981. The nine short stories reflect the tense coexistence among black people, mixed race people and white people in the musseques (slums) and neighborhoods that surround the coast of Luanda. At this time, the largest Portuguese migration to the African territory took place. Through some laws such as the Estatuto do Indigenato, from 1954 and the Acto Colonial, from 1933, the social differences were even more stimulated. These legal spheres were based on Darwinist theories from the 19th century read in a patriarchal repressive and classicist way separating the populations in non-civilized or assimilated making the Portuguese, on the other hand, supposedly, civilized. Therefore, according to these thoughts, the Portuguese were prepared to colonize the Angolan population through, also a supposed, cultural and social superiority.

A dissertação elabora a análise de alguns contos de João Antônio com a intenção de traçar o percurso narrativo de sua obra. A seleção de contos se organiza sob o arco histórico da ditadura militar, e as análises buscam se associar a temas da identidade nacional. Partindo de Malagueta, Perus e Bacanaço, trata de seus assuntos mais imanentes, como a anonímia e o negacear do malandro, relacionando-os à sua época e ao empenho inicial do autor. Segue com a análise de Paulinho Perna Torta, em que se discute os desdobramentos de um tipo de progresso que a experiência nacional tornou particular. Neles se inserem tanto a violência urbana quanto a nova formação do sujeito. E elabora em seguida as leituras de Dedo-Duro e Toni Roy Show, contos que servem para a retomada do gênero conto e passam a delinear uma abertura formal e temática que se resolve no conto Abraçado ao meu rancor. Em perspectiva, esta dissertação busca depreender da obra do autor uma constante que atravessa o seu fazer literário e seu tempo histórico, nomeada aqui como uma \"literatura de negação\". / The dissertation elaborates some analysis of short stories of João Antonio with the intention of tracing the narrative course of his work. The selection of short stories is organized under the historical arc of the Brazilian military dictatorship, and the analyses seek to associate themselves with themes of national identity. Starting with Malagueta, Perus and Bacanaço, it deals with its most immanent subjects, such as the anonymous portion of poor people and the flutter of the malandro, relating them to his time and to the author\'s initial commitment. It follows with the analysis of Paulinho Perna Torta and the dissertation discusses a type of progress that the national experience made particular in reason of urban violence and the new formation of the subject. And then this work elaborates the readings of Dedo-Duro and Toni Roy Show, short stories that serve to retake this textual genre and begin to delineate a formal and thematic opening that is resolved in other short story, Abraçado do meu rancor. In perspective, this dissertation seeks to understand from the author\'s work a constant that goes through his literary work and his historical time, named here as a \"literature of denial\".

O presente trabalho tem como objetivo o estudo da representação do herói na obra literária As Andorinhas, de Paulina Chiziane, publicada em Maputo, em 2008, e no Brasil, no ano de 2013. A obra de três contos inspira-se em figuras históricas importantes à constituição da identidade moçambicana. Os heróis nacionais tratados na ficção da autora, entretanto, são narrados como personagens provenientes do universo mitológico. Com o propósito de compreender a finalidade da obra dentro do contexto social e histórico de Moçambique, este trabalho analisa o herói tanto pela sua representação simbólica, como por sua atuação no processo de desenvolvimento de uma identidade nacional em contraposição ao sistema colonial e suas mazelas. Portanto, o tema da busca da liberdade permeia a trilogia de contos e coloca o herói como o representante das transformações sociais no tempo histórico e representante das divindades no tempo mitológico. / The present paper aims to study the representation of the hero in the literary work The Swallows, from Paulina Chiziane, published in Maputo (2008) and in Brazil (2013). The short stories are inspired by important historical figures to the formation of Mozambican identity. These national heroes, however, are narrated as characters from the mythological universe. In order to understand the purpose of the literary work within the social and historical context of Mozambique, this paper analyzes the hero both for its symbolic representation, as for its role in the formation of a national identity in opposition to the colonial system and its ills process. Therefore, the theme of the pursuit of freedom permeates this trilogy and puts the hero as the representative of the social transformations in historical time and representative of the deities in the mythological time.

A obra em prosa de Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), sobretudo sua novelística, é permeada pela presença de um rico e variado mundo animal. O autor, como um agudo observador de sua época, reconhece a importância dos animais na cultura e no desenvolvimento da civilização. Espelhos naturais dos humanos, capazes de sofrer e entender esse sofrimento, agentes do acaso e da impassibilidade da natureza, os animais inserem-se perfeitamente na poética do autor. Em Pirandello, o animal é um personagem que age e se comporta como um personagem de Pirandello, mas, ao contrário do personagem humano, mostra a sua própria face, sem disfarces, sem meios termos e sem máscaras. Este estudo busca examinar e chamar a atenção para esse pouco estudado, mas importante aspecto da obra de Pirandello, relacionando-o com a poética do autor e a evolução de sua obra / The prose works of Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936), particularly his short stories, is permeated by the presence of a rich and varied animal world. The author, as a keen observer of his time, recognizes the importance of animals in the culture and development of civilization. Natural mirrors of the human being, capable of suffering and understanding this suffering, agents of natures chance and impassivity, animals fall perfectly into the poetics of the author. In Pirandello, the animal is a character who acts and behaves like a character from Pirandello, but, unlike the human character, it shows its own face, without disguises, compromises and masks. This study seeks to examine and draw attention to this understudied but important aspect of the work of Pirandello, relating it to the poetics of the author and the evolution of his work