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Genre/Form: | Thèses et écrits académiques |
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Material Type: | Document, Thesis/dissertation, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Dima Samaha; Stéphane Baquey; Charif Majdalani; Xavier Garnier; Aix-Marseille Université.; Université Saint-Joseph (Beyrouth).; Ecole Doctorale Langues, Lettres et Arts (Aix-en-Provence).; Centre interdisciplinaire d'étude des littératures (Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône). |
OCLC Number: | 1105628361 |
Notes: | Thèse soutenue en co-tutelle. Titre provenant de l'écran-titre. |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Responsibility: | Dima Samaha ; sous la direction de Stéphane Baquey et de Charif Majdalani. |
Abstract:
My PhD thesis focuses on works of fiction by Lebanese immigrant writers that are part of the same generation (1959-1969) and whose novels were written and published after the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990), outside of Lebanon, in both English and French. The thesis sheds light on distinctive aspects of these novels all of which share the dual experience of war and emigration. This dual experience generates various discursive strategies analysed in Ruth Amossy and Dominique Maingueneau's work on the analysis of discourse as well as Peter Brooks's contribution to narrative construction in therapy framework. Memory is a mean through which narrative is articulated as it turns into the object of harsh attempts of re-appropriation. Trauma theory, as developed by Cathy Caruth alongside the work of Maurice Halbwachs on collective and social memory, shed light on the mechanisms in which memory works in the studied novels. The novels are also part of an attempt to write history and draw on mixed material to do so: They use archives, fictionalise real events, and develop multiple narrative voices. These techniques lead to a reflection on historiography, the production of memories, and the traditional functions of reading. Narrative strategies, memory mechanisms, and the writing of history are part of a process illustrating a permanent concern about identity. YLebanese immigration narratives, through their audacious strategies, innovative techniques and willingness to represent a dual and complex experience, contribute to the shaping of both Lebanese and world literature's modernity and more importantly to the impossibility of reducing fiction to fixed categories.
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