L'experience romanesque haitienne pour une relecture de l'option identitaire.
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Title
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L'experience romanesque haitienne pour une relecture de l'option identitaire.
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Identifier
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AAI3127868
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identifier
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3127868
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Creator
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Francois, Jean Avin.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Lucienne Serrano
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Date
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2004
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Language
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French
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Caribbean | Literature, Modern
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Abstract
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This dissertation is a semiotic study of the Haitian novel in the twentieth century, which is considered the period in which the novel blossomed in Haiti. This study focuses on six novels by 6 different authors starting from 1901 to 1968. They are Themistocle Epaminondas Labasterre by Frederic Marcelin, Sena by Fernand Hibbert, La Famille des Pitite-Caille by Justin Lherisson, Gouverneurs de la rosee by Jacques Roumain, Compere General Soleil by Jacques Stephen Alexis and Amour, Colere et Folie by Marie Chauvet.;Applying the insights furnished by semiotics and sociocritical theory, this Dissertation attempts to present a more complete picture of how Haitian novelists viewed their identity both as a process and as a failure.;Of particular interest to this project is the attempt of those novelists to position their narrative universe in relation to alterity in order to establish objectively a national legitimacy. Marie Chauvet, the first important woman in Haitian literature, crosses over from the social to the private: this attempt leads to a situation where the collective identity becomes for the first time part of individual, intimate life.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
