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<p>This novel began as a short story collection exploring aspects of blackness that dealt with homosexuality, family dynamics, violence, Christianity and societal constructs. The first draft was titled <i>Innerworkings</i>. My goal was to show how the actions or inactions of others can easily affect someone else’s life by focusing on each character individually before their story intertwined without another’s. This current thesis manuscript steams from my experience of talking to family members and peers, each with a different option about how the topics stated should be handled. Most of the conversations left me with more questions and feelings of guilt or questioning what my life looks like vs what it should look like. With the current thesis manuscript, I strive to find a way to bring up a new way to handle discussions where spiritually and unspiritual topics can be handled respectfully. </p> <p> </p> <p>Reading Jesmyn Ward’s <i>Sing, Unburied Sing</i> and <i>Salvage the Bones</i> allowed me to see how a story could play out when each character is given their individual spotlight while also giving the reader insight to how they view the other characters. The work here is also influenced by Tomi Adeyemi’s novel <i>Children of Blood and Bone </i>and Marlon James’s <i>Black Leopard, Red Wolf</i> that showcased how important maps and character charts were in helping the readers understand the world and plot by giving them insight before they cracked open the first chapter. With time, I hope to be able to integrate maps and family tree dynamics into the novel so that The Community can be properly showcased as a character and its changes over time. </p>

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Le discours critique sur le roman-mémoires des années 1730 semble souvent hésiter entre deux attitudes antagonistes : soit il y discerne les signes d’une « naissance de l’individu » et y voit l’émergence du roman de formation (Bildungsroman). Soit il considère que ces catégories sont anachroniques : la notion d’« individu », comme être conscient de soi et de son intériorité affective et comme l’élément élémentaire dont se compose la société n’apparaît-elle pas seulement dans la deuxième moitié du XVIIIe siècle en particulier dans la réflexion de Jean-Jacques Rousseau ? et le roman de formation ne trouve-t-il pas son prototype en Allemagne, avec Les Années d’apprentissage de Wilhelm Meister de Goethe ? Mais en réalité, Rousseau et Goethe sont tous deux de grands lecteurs de romans-mémoires et ils s’en sont nettement inspirés dans leurs écrits. La présente thèse souhaite montrer que le roman-mémoires des années 1730 peut être analysé comme un roman de formation, dans la mesure où il décrit les étapes constitutives de l’identité d’un individu et porte une vision du monde sur sa place dans la vie sociale. Mais une telle hypothèse implique de s’interroger sur cette forme romanesque « rebelle à tout ordre » (Henri Coulet, Le Roman jusqu’à la Révolution) : Comment définir cette forme romanesque ? Quel est son rôle dans la cristallisation de la notion d’« individu » ainsi que du roman de formation ? C’est à ces questions que s’efforce de répondre cette thèse en analysant quelques œuvres emblématiques de cette nouvelle forme romanesque, ainsi que leurs enjeux, leurs dimensions philosophiques, esthétiques, politiques et anthropologiques et leurs contributions à l’avènement de l’individu et à l’émergence du roman de formation (Bildungsroman). / The critical discourse on the memoir novel of the years 1730 often seems to hesitate between two antagonistic attitudes : either it discerns in it the signs of a "birth of the individual" and sees in it the emergence of the novel of formation (Bildungsroman). Or it considers these categories as anachronistic : did not the notion of the "individual" as a being conscious of itself and of its emotional interiority and as the basic element of which society is composed only appear in the second half of eighteenth century, most notably in the reflections of Jean-Jacques Rousseau ? And did not the novel of formation find its prototype in Germany, with Goethe’s Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship ? But in reality, Rousseau and Goethe were both great readers of memoir novels and were clearly inspired by them in their writings. The present thesis hopes to show that the memoir novel of the years 1730 can be analyzed as a novel of formation, insofar as it describes the constituent steps of individual identity and carries a worldview regarding its place in social life. However, such a hypothesis implies asking some questions about this novelistic form, considered as "rebellious to any order" (Henri Coulet, Le Roman jusqu’à la Révolution) : How can this novelistic form be defined ? What was its role in the crystallization of the notion of the "individual", as well as that of the novel of formation ? These are the questions that this thesis attempts to answer by analyzing some emblematic works of this then new novelistic form, as well as their importance, their philosophical, aesthetic, political and anthropological dimensions and their contributions to the advent of the individual and the emergence of the novel of formation (Bildungsroman).

The first study to examine the status of plot in the modernist novel and the integral role that commercial narrative film played in shaping it, Missing Story reads the modernist novel in conjunction with the evolution of cinematic narrative. It argues that an exemplary subset of modern novelists detected in narrative cinema of the early twentieth century an attempt to co-opt realist storytelling, and to ignore the social, political, economic, and philosophical reasons why modernist authors sought to displace realism. Plot has been considered anathema to a modernist narrative difficulty meant to challenge the ideology of Enlightenment progress and bourgeois values for which realist plot was assumed an aesthetic proxy. Missing Story, however, reveals that far from expunging realist plot, the modernist novel attempted to recuperate it in complex ways, and that cinema’s increased reliance on realist storytelling played a hitherto un-recognized role in this aesthetic crisis. Narrative film forced modern novelists to acknowledge the affordances of realist plot—its ability, in the nineteenth-century realist tradition, to generate coherent selfhood over time, to lend narrative shape to the changing tides of history, and to secure social belonging. My project shows how the novel’s relinquishment of realist plot thus generated a surge of contradictory textual dynamics and affective intensities in modernist narrative form and its characters. Demonstrating that modernist novelists were drawn to film’s powers of storytelling rather than abstraction, my project also revises recent scholarship on modernism and the new media. Even though media histories of modernism have broadened their purview to include a diversity of mass cultural—rather than solely avant-garde—texts, they still tend to focus on the breakdown of form and the ways that modernist literature sees itself in popular culture’s fissures and lapses. Through readings of works by Nella Larsen, William Faulkner, Djuna Barnes, Tod Browning, and Max Ophuls, I argue that it was commercial film’s ability to suture stories together—not to break them apart— that generated a formal and ideological crisis in the modern novel. That crisis, I contend, resulted from an intense ambivalence toward plot, ambivalence fueled by critique and colored by longing. / 2021-11-12T00:00:00Z

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The subaltern is a recurrent literary figure in Mexican narrative. The objective of this thesis is to investigate three ethnic groups – indeed, subalterns – in Mexico which include: Afro-Mexicans, indigenous groups, and Filipino colonial subjects from the perspectives of the Mexican Revolution, post-revolutionary Mexico, and the conquest of the Philippines in the sixteenth century. The principal characters play crucial roles in events shaping the history and culture of Mexico and thus demonstrate their importance to the country's development while also revealing the reality of subalterns. The literary research shows that trying circumstances or a lack of self-identity were the main causes for a character to be or become a subaltern in addition to their inherent ethnic disadvantages. However, the characters who overcame their subaltern state often changed personality traits or adapted to their surroundings in order to be assimilated into the majority culture.