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David Rousset et les conflits de la representation litteraire : a la decouverte de l'humanite concentrationnaire
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Schirmacher, Sandrine Francine
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2013
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Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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Although now mostly forgotten, David Rousset was an important literary and political figure of the period immediately following WWII. His first essay, L'Univers Concentrationnaire, published in 1946, was awarded the Renaudot Prize in 1947 and is considered to be the foundational French text about the emergence of repression and its evolution in Nazi Germany. His conceptualization of Nazi concentration camps largely permitted the reconstruction of a unified French national memory. This...
Show moreAlthough now mostly forgotten, David Rousset was an important literary and political figure of the period immediately following WWII. His first essay, L'Univers Concentrationnaire, published in 1946, was awarded the Renaudot Prize in 1947 and is considered to be the foundational French text about the emergence of repression and its evolution in Nazi Germany. His conceptualization of Nazi concentration camps largely permitted the reconstruction of a unified French national memory. This dissertation analyzes David Rousset's Les Jours de Notre Mort and his use of the novel genre to testify about his experience in Nazi concentration camps. The problem of being both a witness, yet also testifying on behalf of others, is central to the comprehension of his work. In fact, Rousset only recounts fragments of his life and his suffering during his deportation to and internment in Buchenwald, Neuengamme and Porta Wesphalica. The interplay between fiction and testimony of his experience allows him to hide the mental and physical changes that affected him during his 16 months of incarceration. Recounting life in the camps through fictional characters as well as the stories of real comrades allows him to transcend not only his limited experience but also to focus on the extreme violence that prevailed in the camps and is crucial in explaining how Rousset relates and reconstructs the process of extermination in his novel.
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Dans les yeux d'un enfant : narrer le traumatisme des enfants victimes et bourreaux de la guerre civile dans la littérature d'Afrique noire francophone
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Momanyi, Irene Kemunto
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2017
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Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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Civil wars have become a common phenomenon in many African nations. Children are vulnerable and so become the most affected. The trauma caused by civil wars on children is long-term. This thesis analyzes the narration of trauma by child victims and perpetrators of civil war in black Francophone Africa. The analysis is done through two fiction novels: Ahmadou Kourouma's Allah n'est pas obligé (2002) and Emmanuel Dongala's Johnny chien méchant (2000). In both novels, the narrators are children...
Show moreCivil wars have become a common phenomenon in many African nations. Children are vulnerable and so become the most affected. The trauma caused by civil wars on children is long-term. This thesis analyzes the narration of trauma by child victims and perpetrators of civil war in black Francophone Africa. The analysis is done through two fiction novels: Ahmadou Kourouma's Allah n'est pas obligé (2002) and Emmanuel Dongala's Johnny chien méchant (2000). In both novels, the narrators are children and their narration brings into light important facts about civil wars in Africa particularly how they affect children. The first part of this thesis is dedicated to explaining civil war phenomenon as narrated by children and linking information provided by narrators with historical truths. The second part discusses children's narratives on trauma imposed by war and how this narration of trauma can be reparative to the narrators. This thesis concludes showing a new perspective that child narrators bring to the global narratives on civil wars –that of a child, a forgotten and often overlooked perspective. Children are the cradle of humanity and so the importance of this perspective cannot be overstated.
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