Browsing by Author "Aaid, Salah Eddine"

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    Deconstructing gender in dystopian fiction
    (university of Oum- El- Bouaghi, 2017) Charidi, Souaad; Aaid, Salah Eddine
    This Study investigates the traces of Feminism in Suzanne Collins' novel The Hunger Games. It interrogates how Collins, as a female writer of the twenty first century, is engaged with the third wave of feminism which seeks to access to the empowering center of femininity. Even the dystopian genre cannot offer this since its setting is so tragic for Man in general. This work will explore how Collins would solve this problem as she represents gender in her novel. The study is guided by three objectives: to explore gender role through the novel; to interrogate the deviation from the old male-based dystopias; to analyze the new themes brought by Collins. A Feminist analysis of the novel is provided for getting enough data for the study. The study is configured in three chapters; the first chapter highlights the main characteristics of female dystopias and the difference between female-based and male-based dystopias in representing gender. The second chapter tackles gender issue and sees how it is represented in the novel. The third chapter explores the reasons that lead Collins to choose the dystopian genre for representing women/ men in her novel. Finally, reading Collins' work in the context of this research portrays broader vision for representing females through dystopian narratives and opens the path for other researchers to predict a good future for female representation in dystopian writings.
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    In Search of identity in contemporary american literature
    (University of Oum El Bouaghi, 2018) Djeghroud, Hadjer; Aaid, Salah Eddine
    Identity is a very serious case; it is the reason of some nations' conflicts. This explains why it has been a theme of study to many researchers. What is more important is the process of "Identity formation" and how it sets the teenagers' life upside down and makes them feel lost in their own body. This dissertation attempts to analyze John Green's Paper Towns (2008) in a way that evokes identity and precisely the process of forming the identity of the teenage characters in the novel at this very critical age. The aim of this research is to prove the change in the teenagers' life while they are trying to form their identity, and how it is very important for them to build an identity of their own as a basis for their adulthood. The enigma to be solved in the research is why did Margo all of a sudden disappear? To what extent is the process of "Identity Formation" related to her decision? The psychological approach seems to be the best approach to analyze the personality of each character in the novel, and to answer the questions asked. To get to this point, this study is divided into two chapters: The first one mentions the different theories of "Identity" and of course "Identity Formation" on which the second chapter is based. For, the second chapter, it analyzes in depth Paper Towns and tries to relate the theories previously mentioned with the characters' personalities. Reading Green's Paper Towns in this research's context truly proves the importance for teenagers to form their identity, and how it helps them to find themselves by building an identity of their own; and so, sets them back on track. To sum up, the research done proves how important it is for a teenager to build his identity, and that is what Paper Towns portraits through the psychological development of the two characters Margo and Quentin, and how they end up finding themselves.
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    Locating the mythical sites of decolonization in ngugi wa thiong’o’s matigari
    (Université Oum El Bouaghi, 2021) Bahlil, Bouchra; Aaid, Salah Eddine
    Neocolonialism is the last stage of imperialism that was rooted in Africa after most countries took their independence. Colonialism took a new shape that kept exploiting lands, people and raw materials. It even moved deeply to control people's minds. The implications of neocolonialism contain the economic, political, and the cultural domains of the African countries. In this regard, many Committed writers, like Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, attempted to decolonize the African mind by revising history. Ngugi relies on his mother tongue, the Gikuyu language, to enhance the novel's level of orality and gain more readers and listeners. This study aims to discover the path he went through to decolonize the Kenyan mind by exploring his outstanding novel, Matigari. The novel is rich in myths, which are retrieved from the Gikuyu oral culture. They give agency to the marginalized Kenyan majority by creating different modes of resistance and subversion. More importantly, they reconstruct African identity and create a positive, liberating response to the ideological codes of imperial history and its legacy of oppression and fragmentation.
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    Love in the rubble
    (University of Oum El Bouaghi, 2024) Boukhroufa, Hadyl; Aaid, Salah Eddine
    Native American literature is not always stoic warriors and tales of hunting. It encompasses love that extends beyond romantic attachments, including family, tribe, and the land itself. This exploration examines how Natalie Diaz utilizes love as a tool to decolonize and leverage Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS) for cultural revitalization in "Postcolonial Love Poem". The study employs close reading alongside critical Indigenous research to analyze the poem's imagery, metaphors, and symbolism. The analysis reveals "Postcolonial Love Poem" transcends genre, becoming a testament to the Mojave people's fight for cultural survival through love and their own knowledge systems. "Postcolonial Love Poem" stands as a testament to the transformative power of love and IKS in the face of colonial oppression, offering a path towards healing, self-determination, and cultural revitalization for the Mojave people.
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    (re)mapping europe from a black diasporic perspective
    (Revue de Traduction et Langues, 2019) Aaid, Salah Eddine
    Inscribed in Homi Bhabha's project of "re-inventing Britain" and Stuart Hall's representation of cultural diversity, the present study explores the way in which the tropes of magical realism have been implemented to remap the new frontiers of the European construct in Bernardine Evaristo's Soul Tourists. In order to achieve this aim, a close reading technique has been relied on to deconstruct the text into basic dichotomies that trace the European centre and its margin. Furthermore, the British magical realism model of Anne Hegerfeldt is employed to highlight how the writer successfully reversed the realistic paradigm of the centre as she focalised the narration from an "ex-centric" point of view. In doing so, Europe became a warm home for the diasporic subject.
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    Representing femininity in gothic novel
    (university of Oum- El- Bouaghi, 2017) Lamri, Randa; Aaid, Salah Eddine
    The Following research is a study of representing femininity in Jane Austen's Northanger abbey this dissertation, accordingly, attempts to analyze the female characters in Jane Austen 's novel by describing them and categorize each one of them, the objective of this study thus to examine how the character of this novel contributed in making it gothic literary work, also to shed light on the depiction of women in Austen's novel. In addition, to investigate that this novel is a female gothic novel. In order to reach this point this research will be divided into three chapters the first chapter will highlight the female gothic representation of femininity, by introducing the gothic genre and show the characteristics of the female gothic the second chapter will extract a different examples from the text in which justify the nature of the novel as female gothic . Finally, from reading Austen's Northanger Abbey the depiction and the presence of women in the novel are different from character toanother.
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    Rethinking melancholia in british asian fiction
    (Université Oum El Bouaghi, 2021) Yousfi, Soumia; Aaid, Salah Eddine
    Minority groups in post-war Britain suffered from numerous forms of racism and discrimination. They were not seen as equals and never good enough to fit in British society. Hanif Kureishi entered the zeitgeist of the time through his writings. The Buddha of Suburbia shows how racism spread widely in society the thing that made it difficult for immigrants to find their identities. They lost their sense of belonging. Immigrants became haunted by melancholia. This research examines the process of finding alternative ways of belonging. Kureishi explores the navigation of identity in 1970s Britain to display how the nation's inability to mourn the loss of the Empire resulted in a state of denial. This denial put Britain in a state of postcolonial melancholia and made minority groups experience melancholy of race. The method implemented in this study is psychoanalysis and the theoretical insights of racial melancholia that are borrowed from critical race theory. Because melancholia is a psychological as much as psychotic phenomenon, the implemented method is deemed to be the best tool to reveal what is hidden and repressed. Critical race theory is relevant in the sense that the writer is of a mixed-race origin and the novel primarily deals with race. Kureishi criticizes morality and old traditions in a gently humorous way using wit and satire. He also calls for the revision of Britishness. The novel shows how characters at the beginning are chaotic and lost with no sense of belonging. By the end of the novel, however, characters manifest a decent amount of change as they successfully find other ways of belonging. This research demonstrates how melancholia can be productive and a source of empowerment.
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    The Agony of nowhere and dischronotopicality in Joan Riley’s "the unbelonging"
    (University of Oum El Bouaghi, 2023) Messoud Debbih, Chams Echourouk; Aaid, Salah Eddine
    Black female immigrantsfrom the Windrush Generation suffered from numerous forms of racism, discrimination, and abuse in Britain. They are oppressed based on their race and gender. Joan Riley's writing explores how this double-layered oppression has generated feelings of alienation, unbelonging, and self-denigration in the context of displacement and diaspora. Home and identity are problematized via the metaphorical lens of "nowhere". This study examines how the process of finding a homely space in the borderline, where belonging is frozen in a specific time and place, is complex. It explores how Riley's The Unbelonging creates a space of navigation that reconstitutes narratives of displacement, placelessness, and (un)belonging for diasporic Afro-Caribbean female subjectivity. The study borrows theoretical insights from diaspora studies, black cultural studies, and Peeren's Dischronotopicality. It reveals how Riley criticizes both British society and her own Jamaican belonging, which foregrounds the motif of the borderline and its state of ambivalence. The novel shows how the protagonist Hyacinth came across a very complex process of self-identification. It starts with idealizing Jamaica as a symbol of absent motherhood, yet by the end of the novel, she manifests a feeling of disappointment and grief and eventually realizes the impossibility to belong to a fixed national space. The borderline is regarded as a transnational location for diasporic subjects.
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    The Decentring of human agency in the selected works of Algernon Blackwood: a posthumanist perspective
    (University of Oum El Bouaghi, 2023) Khelfi, Lamisse; Aaid, Salah Eddine
    The aim of this dissertation is to challenge the construction of the humanist subject by casting doubt on anthropocentrically-oriented notions of agency and supremacy. Agency is traditionally situated within the exclusive privileged province of the rational human subject. This limited conceptualization is inherently hierarchical as it rests upon the premise that Man, by virtue of his exceptional ability to act with rationality and intentionality, is separated from and elevated above an inert Nature that is ready to be acted upon and exploited for human use. Acclaimed supernatural British writer Algernon Blackwood, informed by his own lifetime reverence to the Great outdoors, paints a deeply transformative experience in which the protagonists meet the gaze of a Nature that is antithetical to the defaulted idea of a passive backdrop. Thrown off the self-claimed throne the characters are forced to rethink the terms of their own existence. Thinking or rethinking human-ness outside the anthropocentric box is at the core of (Critical) Posthumanism which serves as the theoretical framework inside which this dissertation lies. Critical Posthumanism signals the end of the humanist legacy that promotes human interests at the expense of the marginalized nonhuman other. To serve the Posthumanist project, Weird fiction is adopted as an adequate tool as it provides a reality that is completely indifferent to notions of human exceptionalism and self-aggrandizement. Immense scale and the concept of the abcanny (endemically-Weird monstrosities) are used to showcase just how limited human agency is as the protagonist in Blackwood's works fail to apprehend and accordingly act against the entities and scales they face. Both of these notions are discussed as thematically relevant to the Anthropocene, which entails ecological crisis that are on the one hand very much the product of human activity and expansion and on the other hand involves intense unpredictable events that exceed and escape human control.
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    The Quest for identity and religious extremism in postcolonial african novel
    (University of Oum El Bouaghi, 2018) Allaoua, Hanane; Aaid, Salah Eddine
    Postcolonial literature is the medium through which the writers of the formerly colonized nations share their experience of resistance and reconstruction. Their writings give voice to the suppressed, unspeakable people in order to determine their identity. The quest for identity is considered as one of the most discussed themes in postcolonial African Literature. Laila Lalami is among the North African writers who threw light on the issue of identity crisis through her works. In this regard, the present dissertation aims at exploring the theme of the quest for identity and the different types of identity loss presented in Laila Lalami's Secret Son. In order to highlight this issue, an analysis of the characters' tendencies and choices is made to show clearly how each one of them perceive it. Equally important, this study seeks to investigate different aspects that help in forging people's identity such as language, immigration, social classes, and most importantly, religion. Furthermore, it also attempts to examine the impact of religion in shaping identity in which religious extremism can be considered as a type of identity loss. Hence, the main objective of this study is to map the connection between the quest for identity and religion; mainly religious extremism in a postcolonial context in general and explore the deterioration of economy and politics and how it has shaped the Moroccan identity in specific. In order to achieve it, the novel under study is approached from a thematic perspective relying on the interpretation of the postcolonial stance.
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    The Synergy of allegory and orality in noviolet bulawayo's glory
    (University of Oum El Bouaghi, 2024) Bouzid, Raihana; Aaid, Salah Eddine
    This dissertation investigates the synergy between allegory and orality in NoViolet Bulawayo’s Glory (2022), placing it as a significant criticism on Zimbabwean society. Through a deep analysis, it shows how NoViolet Bulawayo used different types of allegories namely political, ancestral, and modern ones to represent the socio-political reality of Zimbabwe while employing oral storytelling methods to enhance the narrative’s effect. The research digs into the historical foundations of both allegory and orality, analyzing their history and relevance in African literature. By exploring Bulawayo’s narrative methods, it demonstrates how the fusion of these two literary genres not only improves the tale but also connects emotionally with the readers. The study underlines the transformational impact of this synergy, revealing how Glory acts as an allegorical speech that speaks directly to the Zimbabwean experience, advocating for social consciousness and collective action.
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    Towards a black british fiction of memory: narrating the peripheral space of english identity in andrea levy ‘small island
    (Revue des sciences humaines, 2019) Aaid, Salah Eddine; MAOUI, Hocine
    The present paper aims at exploring how English identity is reconstructed through the narrative of memory in Small Island by the Black British writer Andrea Levy. It is argued that the narrative of this latter carries in its seeds a transnational memory that crosses the exclusive boundary of post-war identity that Britain underwent during the 1940s. This form of aesthetics has genuinely grounded the diasporic experience in the British cultural memory so that it became a warm home for the Caribbean immigrants of the Windrush Generation. Being written in the first decade of the twenty-first century, the novel highly contributes to enlighten contemporary multicultural Britain by creating multiracial sites of memory that function as new markers of British identity.
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    Tropes of multicultural englishness and mixed-race
    (University of Oum El Bouaghi, 2023) Abid, Oumaima; Aaid, Salah Eddine
    This dissertation explores the role of cultural production in negotiating and reframing identity and belonging within Black British literature at the turn of the millennium. Focusing on Zadie Smith's critically acclaimed novel, White Teeth, the study aims to investigate the extent to which mixed-race conviviality defies essentialist notions of Englishness and British identity. The study draws on the theoretical framework of Diaspora and Black cultural studies by referring to key critics such as Paul Gilroy and Stuart Hall to provide valuable insights into the complexities of multicultural Englishness, hybridity, and identity politics. Through a comprehensive analysis, the study reveals how White Teeth employs the tropes of multicultural Englishness to navigate the complexities of identity in contemporary Britain. The examination of mixed-race characters in the novel has highlighted the importance of their stories in reconfiguring national identity and forging the basic assumptions of the mixed-race figure as an agent of change and transformation in Britain .The findings of the study contribute to the existing literature on White Teeth and offer theoretical perspectives on the exploration of identity in multicultural contexts.
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    Untangling traumatic memories and tracing the path to healing in yaa gyasi’s homegoing 2016
    (University of Oum-El-Bouaghi, 2024) Abed, Amira Khouloud; Aaid, Salah Eddine
    In Homegoing (2016), Yaa Gyasi explores the intergenerational impact of the slave trade, slavery and colonialism on a Ghanaian family. The present study examines the traumatic experiences that each character has endured starting from the life path of two half-sisters Effia and Esi in the late 18th century. It demonstrates how trauma becomes an ancestral legacy and burden that is transmitted to the descendants in the course of two centuries. By drawing on the insights from Cathy Caruth in trauma studies and psychoanalytic theory, mainly the use of Freudian and Post-Freudian paradigms, writing fiction is considered therapeutic and it provides a space for the reconciliation of traumatic memories through confrontation, admission, and the liberation of the repressed material within the African psyche. It also unveils the symbolic tapestry that the novel showcases to articulate intergenerational trauma, healing and confronting the taboo subject of African complicity in the transatlantic slave trade.
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    Unveiling homes within silence: admiring silence by Abdulrazek Gurnah 1996
    (University of Oum El Bouaghi, 2023) Sahbi, Ayarrehmene; Aaid, Salah Eddine
    The present research highlights the dimensions of silence as a human experience, taking AbdulrazekGurnah's Admiring Silence (1996) as a study sample. It examines not only the compulsory silence in the diasporic atmospheres but also the sites of admired and chosen silences. This is why, this study unveils the psychological and cultural silences within the context of the novel, for the aim of manifesting how silence transforms into home, in an act of constructing an inner space of desires, created by the silent behaviour of the protagonist. This study combines Stuart Sim's categorization of silence with Elsa Ronningstam cultural, psychological and psychoanalytic theorization of silence. Overall, the choice of the theoretical insights serves to prove that silences in Admiring Silence are but a space of home created by the nameless narrator of the novel to escape external feelings of diasporicunbelongingness, and to demonstrate how admiring the silence becomes home.