Browsing by Author "Boukemache, Wissame"

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    Globalization and its discontents in richard powers' plowing the dark
    (Université De Larbi Ben M’hidi Oum EL Bouaghi, 2022) Djabelkhir, Manal; Siouane, Roufaida; Boukemache, Wissame
    Globalization is considered as a historical trend towards the expansion of the world and an increase in awareness of the extent of this expansion, and it appears in many aspects. And this is what we can notice in Richard Power's novel "Plowing the Dark". Which is to talk about the role of globalization in developing the world by using programming and art? This study of the novel focuses on Marxist feminist reading, which helps to show how globalization is paving the way for the imagination to create a virtual real world. The novel essentially depicts the struggle of males and females to realize their dreams using art and software to make fantasy a reality by focusing on woman and nature and the power of man to gain the world and create the world in which they want to live. The study of the novel also talks about Orientalism and its interest in the east and the west and the difference between them. Finally, the pre-colonial study shows that the relevant novel presents the English language as well as art as a form of resistance against Islamic fendamantalisman according to Taimur's story and his struggle to not lose his mind.
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    Narrative persona, trauma and healing
    (University of Oum El Bouaghi, 2024) Guitoun, Imene; Boukemache, Wissame
    This thesis presents a comparative analysis of Sylvia Plath’s 20th-century poetry and Rupi Kaur’s 21st-century Insta-poetry, focusing on the themes of narrative persona, trauma, and healing. It argues that poetry has consistently served as a powerful medium for women to articulate their experiences, emotions, and aspirations. The study employs four theoretical frameworks—narrative theory, functional stylistics, Cathy Caruth’s Traditional Trauma Model, and the Reader Response theoryt ,with the dual purpose of honoring the established canons of poetry and embracing the creative transformations brought about by the digital era. The thesis sheds light on the evolution of narrative personas over time, illustrating that despite stylistic differences and the passage of decades, the resonant voices of both poets have left enduring marks on their readers and the literary landscape. It posits that the essence of poetry surpasses form; it is about evoking profound feelings and creating lasting impressions, thus demonstrating the enduring power of poetic expression. Furthermore, the research aims to demonstrate that poetry can be a sanctuary for progressive healing and growth, transforming traumatic memories into something beautiful. It also seeks to challenge the notion of the Instagram reader as a passive consumer, and instead reveals a vibrant, engaged audience. Finally, the thesis asserts tha poetry’s sweetness and relief can be found in both the tangible world of books and the virtual realm of social media, affirming the adaptability and relevance of poetry in any age.
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    Nigerian female characters
    (Oum-El-Bouaghi, 2020) Allouene, Imene; Allag, Samah; Boukemache, Wissame
    Due the overwhelming rise of cosmopolitanism as a phenomenon, the African literature, like other literatures, is no longer a planet that spins around its own axis. Consequently, the African literary works that are written by some prolific female writers are widely read and acknowledged. The eagerness of the contemporary female writers to address the issue of gender equality and convey their experiences as Africans paves the way for the feminist ideology to be introduced to African societies. Thus, this research sheds light on the gender issues related to African immigrant women in Americanah(2013), written by the contemporary feminist novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. In other words, it investigates the influence of the host country, America, on the way these women perceive themselves. Additionally, this work highlights the hurdles Ifemelu, the protagonist, manages to overcome in the USA where she fosters her Activism as a true feminist that decides to return to Lagos, her native soil, to defend her own cause. To do so, this study adopts a feminist reading through the lens of the contemporary fourth wave along with some perceptions of Kimberlé Crenshaw's concept of intersectionality to draw attention to the jeopardy of the overlapped factors of discrimination in the USA. This research Further delves into the journey of self- rediscovery of Ifemelu as a returnee to Nigeria. Throughout the incidents she encounters in Lagos we aim at drawing a link with the incidents Adichie herself experienced using her famous essay "We Should All Be feminists" (2012). Finally, this work comes to conclude that the core essence of feminism as an ideology, despite its divergent definitions and struggles, is to accomplish women's upliftment. Therefore, Adichie persuades her society to unlearn its gender-based misconceptions through her fictitious heroine that fulfills her criteria of a true feminist.
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    The Feminine in ernest Hemingway’s War Novel
    (Oum-El-Bouaghi, 2020) Ferdi, Maya; Benaissa, Khadidja; Boukemache, Wissame
    Hemingway is one of the novelists who showed an anti-women attitude in most of his work. In the case of this research, considering For Whom the Bell Tolls as the exception of Hemingway. This dissertation focuses on the analysis of the feminine identity during war, and examines the impact of war on women in different aspects, physically, psychologically, and ideologically. In addition to that, it examines the way women challenge gender binaries. Psychoanalysis stands at the heart of the research approaches adopted in this dissertation which includes psychoanalytic feminism, besides the use of the patriarchal and the matriarchal ideologies. This research shows the true image of Hemingway's fictional heroines. Depicting them as females who did not just serve males, they were part of the war despite of all the challenges and difficulties that they faced. Finally, our reading of the novel in question investigates how the way female characters are depicted is empowering to women in the patriarchal world they live in.
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    The Standardization of beauty
    (Oum-El-Bouaghi, 2020) Messaoudi, Amina; Belkhiri, Rahma; Boukemache, Wissame
    The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel in which she challenges Western standards of beauty and demonstrates that the concept of beauty is socially constructed. This novel attacks the founders of beauty standards. Accordingly, this study is an attempt to show how the standardization of beauty is one form of patriarchal oppression in the modern capitalist world. Built on Louis Althusser's concept of "Interpellation", this research shows how the myth of beauty is constructed and established through apparatuses like cinema and school. In addition, our reading of the novel in question using Alice Walker's "Womanism" and Julia Kriestiva's the "Semiotic" and the "Symbolic" exposes the parameters through which the ideology of beauty takes place. Also, It investigates the reason behind the behavioral changes that some characters undergo in order to achieve acceptance in the white community, and it highlights the destructive effects of the dominant white ideology on black characters. Finally, this study demonstrates that the novel in question offers some modes of resistance against the enslaving myths of beauty. It presents an effective example of resistance to the dominant white ideology in order to pave the way for African American self- affirmation.
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    Women’s DIS empowerment in the contemporary discourse of neoliberal capitalism
    (Larbi Ben Mhidi University Oum El Bouaghi, 2023-06-23) Boukemache, Wissame; Bouhassoun, Azzedine
    The contemporary world has witnessed an unprecedented spread of feminist anti-patriarchal discourse that have narrowly perceived women’s empowerment and liberation as a pure struggle against men for more commensurate economic opportunities and gender equality. This has brought about the incorporation of the female figure into the global institutions of the capitalist market as never before. Subsequently, in their quest for empowerment, women end up subject to the double burden of both productive and reproductive labor. Accordingly, this paper is an attempt to revisit the common orthodox perceptions of empowerment and resistance in the world of global capitalism. Endorsing a feminist political economic perspective represented by leading theorists and critics like, Maria Mies, Cynthia Enloe, Elizabeth Kammarck Minnich and others, this research is an attempt to engender the hegemonic capitalist ‘knowledge’ by exposing the suppressed ‘exploitative’ and ‘oppressive’ meanings that are attached to women’s empowerment in the contemporary age of globalization. Furthermore, this paper is a contribution to the concurrent literature on feminist empowerment and resistance. It calls for the an inclusive gender perspective to the understanding of neoliberal capitalism so as to pave the way to modes of resistance and empowerment that subvert the dysfunctional meanings propagated by the system’s neoliberal knowledge.