Browsing by Author "Achiri, Samya"

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    Condemned to freedom : existentialism in late twentieth century american literature though Jon Krakauer's " Into the wild"
    (university of Oum El Bouaghi, 2016) Triki, Djamel Eddine Akram; Achiri, Samya
    This dissertation joins a vibrant examination about the depiction of existential philosophy in late twentieth century american literature. It scouts about the portrayal of existential tenets through Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild. To explore this sketch, this dissertation uses existential theory in order to analyse this novel. The critical texts applied are Jean-Paul Sartre' Being and Nothingness, and Martin Buber's I and Thou. The ideas of alienation, freedom, authenticity, 'I-Thou' and 'I-It' are the major concepts applied on Krakauer's work. The first chapter is mainly theoretical which explicates the tenets and thoughts of acclaimed existentialists, their contribution to existential literature, and eventually to the whole philosophy as becoming a lionized literary movement. The second chapter argues that the Sartrean existential ideals of alienation, freedom, and authenticity are displayed through the protagonist of Into the Wild Christopher McCandless. When it comes to the third chapter, it argues that Into the Wild showcases the two Buberian different realms of relationships, 'I-Thou' and 'I-It', directly experienced by the same protagonist. By existentially dissecting Krakauer's work, it is demonstrated that the novel articulates the awareness of existentialism in its character as well as its plot. It is clarified that the novel embodies all the existential concepts mentioned above. As a conclusion, Into the Wild's protagonist emphasizes the fact that existentialism is a way of life rather than just a philosophical movement. He proves that the societal values which the writer criticises does not define his true being. He bears the burden of freedom and uses it to mould an utter authentic existence. The novel also belays that despite any kind of status, and under any circumstances, life is relational rather than individualistic.
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    Decentering western postmodernism
    (university of Oum-El-Bouaghi, 2015) Annab, Fadwa; Achiri, Samya
    Arabic literature has emerged amazingly in the last few decades. It has crossed the lines of traditional representations. However, it is still detached from the universal literary movements. More recently, arabic works have been excluded from postmodernism as a movement despite that the latter has agitated every part of this world. This dissertation examines the existence of postmodernist entities in the work of the algerian writer Ahlam Mosteghanemi Nessyane.com [Forgetting.com] (2009). This work is consciously chosen because it seems to celebrate the same western postmodernist literary techniques. The major objective behind this study is to investigate the existence of an arabic postmodernist literature. It also aims to prove that Arabic Literature is able to create delightful works which carry excellence at both levels: the local and the universal. After unveiling the outstanding properties of contemporary Arabic literature, the major target would be to provoke the desire for more researches about Arabic literature. In order to accomplish the previously listed points, this dissertation will be divided into three chapters. The first one is a theoretical base about postmodernism in general, including the Arabic one. The second one explores the literary postmodernist techniques in Nessyane.com. The final part will throw light on the relationship between politics and literature in the late Arabic literature in an attempt to denote the results of such tight relevance. In the final analysis, this dissertation comes to develop a notion that the politically motivational concepts which surround the Arabic literature have eventually pushed the Arabic individual to appeal revolution and insurgency.
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    Silence and the female migrant Identity in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane (2003)
    (university of Oum- El- Bouaghi, 2017) Meziani, Ahlem; Achiri, Samya
    Silence has always defined the life and identity of third world women. It is considered as an aspect when describing their weakness and marginalisation. As such, this study questions whether silence is always a sign of passivity or if it can be a sort of power. This memoire aims to investigate the different strategies adopted by Monica Ali to represent different forms of silence in the light Postcolonial Feminism. The interpretation of Brick Lane (2003) opens up contemporary contexts in which issues of silence, migration, and multiculturalism are discussed. The main aim is to discover the different forms of silence expressed in the novel and their impacts upon female migrant Muslim identities. It investigates the changes that happen to the female identity while being silent. To accomplish this, this memoire will be divided into three chapters. The first chapter tackles the issue of Muslim migration in the Modern English novel in which Brick Lane is a case in point. The second chapter discusses different instances in which silence is considered to be an act of weakness. The last one is about the form of silence which is considered as an empowerment of the female identity. The conclusion suggests that reworking Ali's Brick Lane in the light of Postcolonial Feminism suggests a more realistic and practical understanding of the notion of female silence with both its active and passive forms.
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    " Sometimes a shift makes me remember " deplacement, identity, and religion in Leila Aboulela's Minaret
    (university of Oum El Bouaghi, 2016) Boukhari, Sarra; Achiri, Samya
    Literature of migration is a continuous chain of vivid literary representations of migrant's day-to-day life. It speaks up the minorities voices. Captivatingly, muslim contributions to this field cannot be denied or excluded. This dissertation, accordingly, attempts to analyze Leila Aboulela's Minaret (2005) in a way that evokes culture, identity, and religion for the sake of finding migrants' lost identity after being a subject to displacement effects. The objective of this study, thus, is to question the reality behind the process of the cultural change expressed in the novel and its outcomes on muslim migrants. It investigates the role of an 'exotic' cultural setting in defining migrants' identity and religion. At this level, culture, society, economy, and politics would be approached comparatively between Migrants' place of departure and place of arrival. To get to this point, this research will be divided into three chapters. The first chapter highlights 'migration literature', under which Minaret is perfectly located, in relation to arab muslim cultural settlement in the West. The second extracts the different instances of displacement and its two-ways of influence on muslim communities. It also tries to approach minaret from a cultural materialist view to understand the process of change. The last tackles the religious identity under the examination of (dis)placement and migration. This will throw light on the beneficial integration that muslim migrants may embrace to achieve what they lacked in their homelands. Finally, reading aboulela's minaret in the context of this research suggests a more comforting, reliable, and practical solution for grasping the good effects of (dis)placement and opens the way for other researches on this positivist tendency in predicting the future of islam and muslims in Europe.
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    The City as the magic lantern social projections of 19th centry London and 20th centry Cairo in Charles Dickens' Great expectations and Naguib Mahfouz' Palace walk Bayn al qasrayn
    (university of Oum El Bouaghi, 2016) Amara, Amel; Achiri, Samya
    In this dissertation, a comparison between 19th century London of Charles Dickens and 20th century Cairo of Naguib Mahfouz in terms of societies and social surroundings would take place. It is the aim of this dissertation to highlight the meaning that repeats itself in the novels. Another objective is to bring to light the motives which operate for making the novels comparable. So, in order to reach these aims, Dickens' Great Expectations and Mahfouz' Palace Walk would be read from a sociological perspective to find the similarities and differences and what created them. Achieving the objectives of this dissertation would work better by dividing it into three chapters. The first one is a theoretical survey of place, city, then London and Cairo in literature along with a short biography of each author. This is followed by highlighting the importance and the relevance of sociological approach to this study. The second chapter is about comparing the social and socio- cultural aspects of both cities to illustrate how they are portrayed and what similar impact they have on the characters. In the last chapter, a comparison between politics and economy of both cities would take place to prove the fact that Dickens and Mahfouz have represented the different political and economic aspects almost in similar manners. The conclusion suggested is that Dickens and Mahfouz lived in different eras and different places with different cultures and this suggests total difference between their works. However, Naguib Mahfouz has been commonly described as 'the Dickens of Cairo', so one may assume the source of these similarities between their novels. Thus, in accordance with the sociological approach which says that the meaning of a literary work is mainly rendered by the city and society, one can say that London and Cairo have similarly shaped the meaning of literature despite the difference in time, place, and culture.
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    The Crisis of truth in the american postmodrenist fiction
    (university of Oum-El-Bouaghi, 2015) Bouaddis, Mohammed Amin; Achiri, Samya
    This study delineates the crisis of truth in the work Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. It furthers this investigation into linking the novel to the postmodernist American fiction, locating it among the most successful and epitomizing works of postmodernism. The literature review shows that this work has been merely, and technically, studied on its surface meaning of language, i.e as satirical and ironic. However, this study will delve into the deep meaning and structure of this work, allowing more philosophical tools and methods to experiment. As a result, It triggers so many ontological questions such as, who are we? This research is an analytical study. Its main theoretical framework will be drawn on post-structuralism, mainly deconstruction and psychoanalysis. It aims to explore the reasons behind this intricate language and its notions of problematised truth especially after the Second World War. This study finds that the novel restores the truth of the American postmodernist fiction particularly in re-dimensioning time scale, the author and his ideology. It concludes that Slaughterhouse-Five is an 'eternal return' fiction that spreads a resurrection crusade mainly to the world, to spur the positive outlook on human beings.
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    Troubled victorian femininity : George Eliot' The mill on the floss as a case study
    (university of Oum-El-Bouaghi, 2015) Salhi, Soumia; Achiri, Samya
    The Victorian age, as an age of men and totally neglected women, with its unfair principles imposed on women has created many intelligent females. George Eliot is one of those females who imposed herself and her works to be taken into consideration by her exquisite writing technique. One of her early famous works is her novel The Mill on the Floss, this novel is considered approximately her real life in which she suffered from inferiority and mistreatment. This fact makes this novel a point of interest for this study since it tends to analyse the psychology of Victorian females through the analysis of the protagonist's personality. This dissertation is made up of three chapters. The first chapter is a theoretical chapter in which the Victorian age is explained through a short biography of the pioneer of the era, Queen Victoria, in addition to the circumstances of the age and the division of the society then. Another point that is developed in the chapter is literature of the age, to go in specific to George Eliot's life and works. The last element of this chapter is the description of the theories to be used in this study which are Psychoanalysis theory and Object Relations theory. The second is a practical chapter in which the protagonist, Maggie, personality is analysed according to Object Relations theory. This means that it is analysed according to Maggie's relations. The third and the last chapter is the second practical chapter in which the Freudian Psychoanalysis theory is applied to see how does Maggie build her personality through the three components of the psyche, the Id, Ego, and Superego.
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    Violence and intertextuality the resurrection of Frankenstein in Saadawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad
    (university of Oum-El-Bouaghi, 2016) Farhi, Rawia; Achiri, Samya
    Fiction is not just a text that can be studied, but it is a mirror that reflects the whole society its economic prosperity, its cultural advancements and even its ills. Due to the oppression people witnessed during the American intervention, Iraqi writers adopted the theme of violence. In an attempt to support the abuse his society endures, Saadawi uses 'intertextuality'. This dissertation will find out the relationship between intertextuality and violence in the work of the Iraqi writer Ahmed Saadawi Frankenstein in Baghdad (2013). This text has been purposely chosen because it expresses the way the linguistic aspect, intertextuality, has served the postmodern thematic concern, violence. This study aims to investigate the national commitment of the writers whose countries are under oppression. In order to achieve the preceding highlighted points, this thesis will be divided into three chapters. The work will be introduced by a theoretical part that treats both violence and intertextuality within the postmodern context. The second chapter will offer a general view about the support of the translated source proximate type of intertextuality to violence via the borrowing of the English character from the English novel Shelley's Frankenstein. The last one will shed light on the other types of intertextuality as well as the other postmodern techniques which strengthen the threat and abuse in the Iraqi society. Finally, this dissertation attends to show the way writers as an intellectual class, through their depiction, try to change what could not be changed by the other classes.
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    Where two very different surfaces mingle and blur to provide what life does not
    (University of Oum El Bouaghi, 2024) Bellil, Souraya; Achiri, Samya
    Within the complex vibrations of modern times, the spatial representations in literature and art mirror the multiplex of the human experience. This dissertation aims to investigate the physicality and the non-physicality of The Goldfinch’s heterotopia and its therapeutic potential when it becomes a Thirdspace. Thus, in light of Foucault’s theory of heterotopia, Edward Soja’s Thirdspace concept, and Arthur Frank’s narrative healing, it reads that the concept of heterotopia as a Thirdspace, a non-physical dimension, creating a site of healing. It analyzes Theodore Decker’s deep connection to art and narratives within the physicality of various settings. Then, it investigates how art creates non-physical, therapeutic spaces that enable narrative healing and self-discovery through a direct influence. Furthermore, the dissertation reveals how these heterotopic Thirdspaces enhance psychological development and emotional reflection. It also highlights the essential role of art in both public and private spheres where it emphasizes that true artistic expression often requires shelter from societal pressures. The conclusion demonstrates the transformative power of art and narrative in fostering psychological well-being and healing.
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    Zones of hell in the chinese-american society: the mother-daughter troubled relationship in amy tan’s the Joy Luck Club
    (Univérsité Oum El Bouaghi, 2020) Lachgar, Samiha; Achiri, Samya
    This dissertation investigates the representation of both Chineseness and Americanness through the characters of the mothers and their daughters as well as the chief factors that contribute to the creation of conflicts between them in Amy Tan's novel of The Joy Luck Club. The purpose of this dissertation is to explore how the different cultural backgrounds lead to the mother-daughter conflicts. In addition to that, it aims to demonstrate how the Chinese mothers harshly enforce the Chinese culture whereas their daughters choose to obtain the American way of life. To reach these objectives, the dissertation needs to be divided into three chapters. The first chapter is theoretical in the sense that it will introduce the Chinese-American society and its literature in addition to the theories of Jessica Benjamin and Erik Erikson. Moreover, the second chapter highlights the most dominant mother-daughter clashes that Amy Tan demonstrates in her novel with reliance on Jessica Benjamin's theory of intersubjectivity. These clashes which highly represent the cultural in-betweeness and the difference of perspectives are classified to be either personal, familial, cultural or moral. The final chapter aims to analyse the process of identity development of the American-born Chinese daughters who belong to the minority groups through dealing with the different stages of their personality development as well as the psychological shock caused by the mother-daughter clashes in view of Erikson's theory. The dissertation concludes that due to the different cultural backgrounds and the differences of perspectives, several clashes take place in the mother-daughter relationship, and this leads to an immense failure in the daughters' formation of identity.