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Fugas: la política de la circulación incómoda en las geografías de producción de energía en América Latina
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“WHERE WAR IS GOD AND GOD IS WAR:” WOMEN’S RELIGIOUS GREAT WAR POETRY AND HOMEFRONT LINES
Get PDFThis project seeks to redefine war’s poetic landscape. Through a focus on women’s Great War poetry, I argue against a dichotomous home front | front line poetic barrier and instead explore the intermingling of wartime spaces. Women’s WWI poetry, I argue, exists within a space I call the homefront lines, a space in which women produce writing from their full experiences of war regardless of combatant status. The homefront lines must be included in World War I literary canons in order to fully recognize the humanity of women during wartime and to fully grasp the war’s impact on poetry as a genre.
I argue for the existence of homefront lines through careful analysis of female poets’ use of religious allegory, religious imagery, religious reference, and religious doctrine. Previously unexplored in a full-length project, women’s religious Great War poetry clearly and firmly knits women into the fabric of war. Chapter 1 will explore how female poets used the classical artistic image of the Pietà to reify their closeness to male combatants and in turn the war itself. Chapter 2 will explore the presence-by-absence of holy ghosts and the inescapable haunting of war, even decades after the war has ended. Chapter 3 will explore the religious war poetry of Ada and Ethel Peters and the ways in which their scriptural poems act as a flashpoint for Civil Rights and a shield against potential criticism.
My dissertation draws on poems from different cultures, languages, and religions. Many of these poets never met one another, and while some have become household names, others have been marginalized into obscurity. Despite these women’s multitudinous differences, their war poetry bears undeniable religious expressions of their full wartime humanity. All of the poets analyzed here are writing from the homefront lines
Mirrored Illusions: Representing Child Disability in Beninese Women’s Literature
No full textFulfilling Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop\u27s Windows and Mirrors concept stating that African children with disabilities need to see themselves reflected in literature so that readers from other backgrounds can benefit from understanding this experience, this paper addresses representations of disability in Benin through literature written by Beninese women. In Beninese culture, ‘child witches’ or children born with disabilities are either returned to the afterlife by decision of family councils or might be seen as signs of possessing special powers or being chosen for a particular role in the community. Social representations of disability in Benin may be attributed to curses, transgressions by ancestors, or witchcraft, leading to stigma and blame placed on the child or family. Because children are seen as crucial for carrying on the family lineage and providing support in old age, a disabled child may be perceived as a burden on the family and might face exclusion or death. In Sophie Adonon’s short story “Illusion dermique (2018), young female character Awa Boukari is albino and suffers the same fate by being killed by her father, Adama. In Elena Miro K’s bilingual children’s book “The Mirror” (2018), middle-schooler Ayana, born with no arms, is gifted a mystery mirror with magical properties from an old woman. The text reflects self-esteem, given this mirror has the ability to talk, and Ayana is hailed a hero after saving her bully from a fire. The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has influenced Benin\u27s policies to promote inclusion and respect for children with disabilities, and local grassroots efforts are working to raise awareness and advocate for the rights of children with disabilities. Fémicriture literature can be a tool to challenge stigma and promote inclusion by depicting disability as a lens to explore broader social issues in Africa, and these stories show that disability in Benin is a complex and challenging experience, where misconceptions can lead to marginalization, leaving children as potential targets of attacks due to false beliefs about the power of their bodies
A stylolinguistic appraisal of Values, inclusion and otherness of 21st century Africa in Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s De purs hommes
No full textAfrican postcolonial engaging literatures have been able to interrogate societal realities of the continent since inception, including the De purs hommes of Mohamed Mbougar Sarr. Previous studies anchored on the thematic thrust of homosexuality societal reaction of the Muslim Senegalese society with less attention paid to the same reality in mixed religious. This study interrogates the submissions in Sarr’s text, juxtaposing it with Christians position in Nigeria. With an interpretative design and close reading of the stylistic use of reiteration, code-mixing, and codeswitching in the text, Pavlov’s classical conditioning is applied to interpret the data drawn from interviews and questionnaires. The findings reveal the cause of exclusion, hostility, hypocrisy, and otherness in the continent of Africa is intrinsically linked to religion, value, and tradition. It also portrays the limited influence of Western education with respect to African norms and traditions to shape perceptions. Thus, homosexuality as a socially accepted concept and identity in the western world remains an ever-evolving reality and an ongoing process in Africa. This study therefore suggests that morally constructed sexual identities, like homosexuality, are perceived as moral, religious, and visual aggression in Africa. Thus, a consensus on the need for respect of human rights and choices, where no minority group is made more important than the vast majority under the guise of inclusion to ensure peaceful coexistence of everyone in society, should be adopted based on the value of the society in questio
La Noire de… by Sembene Ousmane: Exclusion, Migration, and the Reclamation of Marginalized Narratives
No full textThis paper examines Sembène Ousmane’s La Noire de… as a critical exploration of postcolonial identity, cultural displacement, and the dehumanizing effects of colonial systems. Widely regarded as the father of African cinema, Sembène addresses the social and political struggles rooted in the legacies of colonialism, highlighting the lived experiences of ordinary people. Released in 1966, La Noire de… follows Diouana, a young Senegalese domestic worker in France, whose journey reveals the stark contrast between the utopian ideals of migration and the harsh realities of alienation, cultural erasure, and exploitation.
Through visual and narrative techniques, Sembène explores themes such as the psychological toll of displacement, systemic inequalities, and the cultural alienation Diouana faces as she struggles to preserve her African identity amidst pressures of assimilation. Symbolism in the film—including clothing, language, and African artifacts—underscores the tension between cultural preservation and erasure in a foreign context, while critiquing how colonial universalism excludes marginalized voices.
Engaging with the sub-themes “Inclusion dans l’immigration et la migration” and “Connexions entre le cinéma et les arts visuels,” this paper situates La Noire de… within the broader context of Francophone literature and cinema. The film interrogates notions of inclusion, community, and identity while reclaiming space for postcolonial communities. As a pioneering postcolonial narrative, La Noire de… challenges colonial narratives, offering a profound commentary on race, class, migration, and the enduring relevance of inclusion in a globalized worl
La Richesse Stylistique d’André Gide dans son Voyage au Congo: Peinture d’un Peuple dont la Musicalité reflète sa Profonde Humanité
No full textTwo-Dimensional Longest Common Extension Queries in Compact Space
No full textFor a length n text over an alphabet of size σ, we can encode the suffix tree data structure in O(n log σ) bits of space. It supports suffix array (SA), inverse suffix array (ISA), and longest common extension (LCE) queries in O(logϵσ n) time, which enables efficient pattern matching; here ϵ \u3e 0 is an arbitrarily small constant. Further improvements are possible for LCE queries, where O(1) time queries can be achieved using an index of space O(n log σ) bits. However, compactly indexing a two-dimensional text (i.e., an n × n matrix) has been a major open problem. We show progress in this direction by first presenting an O(n2 log σ)-bit structure supporting LCE queries in near O((logσ n)2/3) time. We then present an O(n2 log σ + n2 log log n)-bit structure supporting ISA queries in near O(log n · (logσ n)2/3) time. Within a similar space, achieving SA queries in poly-logarithmic (even strongly sub-linear) time is a significant challenge. However, our O(n2 log σ + n2 log log n)-bit structure can support SA queries in O(n2/(σ log n)c) time, where c is an arbitrarily large constant, which enables pattern matching in time faster than what is possible without preprocessing. We then design a repetition-aware data structure. The δ2D compressibility measure for two-dimensional texts was recently introduced by Carfagna and Manzini [SPIRE 2023]. The measure ranges from 1 to n2, with smaller δ2D indicating a highly compressible two-dimensional text. The current data structure utilizing δ2D allows only element access. We obtain the first structure based on δ2D for LCE queries. It takes Õ(n5/3 + n8/5δ21D/5) space and answers queries in O(log n) time
Universalisme, Altérité, Inclusion et Connexion : Réflexion pour un Monde Juste et Pluriel
No full textDans un contexte mondial où nous assistons à un effritement du tissu social, de réalités virtuelles menaçant quotidiennement nos acquis sociologiques, il est plus opportun d’intégrer pour l’équilibre des peuples et surtout pour célébrer la diversité, des notions transversales d’universalisme d’altérité, d’inclusion et de connexions.
Ces concepts encouragent la citoyenneté mondiale, la culture de la paix et le vivre ensemble. Ils favorisent une meilleure compréhension des dynamiques sociales et des relations interpersonnelles voire interculturelles.
En effet, indépendamment de leur ipséité, origine culturelle, ethnique ou sociale, les hommes constituent des richesses pour l’humanité. Il faut donc transcender les particularités et parvenir à des normes communes qui mettent en relief la diversité des expériences humaines en veillant à ce qu’aucune voix ne soit laissée de côté en raison de critères comme la race, le genre, la religion, l’ethnie, l’orientation sexuelle
Keynote Address: Récits d\u27Esclaves en Français: Traduction et Réparation
No full textDr. Pierre Saint-Amand, introduced by Dr. Jeffrey Leichman, Associate Professor in the Department of French Studies, will serve as this year\u27s conference keynote speaker