Browsing by Author "Haddad, Mordjana"

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    Breaking barriers and building bridges: mapping paths towards inclusion and humanity in Bernardine Evaristo's girl, woman, other 2019
    (University of Oum El Bouaghi, 2023) Larbes, Narimane; Haddad, Mordjana
    In Girl, Woman, Other (2019), BernardineEvaristo represents a wide range of female characters descending from different backgrounds and meeting in London; consequently, her novel unfolds fragmented stories that conduct the reader to locate and draw connections between them. While drawing the connections, the reader pays attention to the literary inclusive experimental project of introducing new perspectives regarding human bonds, especially among women as the title of the novel implies. For this reason, this research turns into a mapping that aims to track down the distinct paths characters cross over time and space. While doing so tries to make sense of the characters stories and how they are interrelated, it interestingly overlooks barriers separating them in real life and builds bridges between them for the purpose to highlight their humanity and emphasize the idea of inclusivity; a space for everyone. To undertake this study, mapping, a novel concept introduced by Robert Tally Jr., is relevant for approaching the book as it genuinely offers a way of reading the world and more importantly helps to search for possible worlds. To assist mapping the characters stories, this study relies on other concepts which are Mikhail Bakhtin's polyphony, Edward Soja's Third Space, and intertextuality. Eventually, this research discloses the role that this novel transcends issues related to gender, race, ethnicity, religion, and geography in order to contribute to the larger conversation on humanity and inclusion.
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    Childhood trauma and adult development in Toni
    (University of Oum El Bouaghi, 2024) Yahi, Ikram; Haddad, Mordjana
    The study explores how childhood trauma shapes adultl development of characters in Toni Morrison’s novel. The research delves into how early traumatic experiences, such as neglect, abuse, and racial discrimination, leave a lasting impact on the characters, particularly Bride and Booker. Their journeys toward healing and self-awareness reflect the broader themes of identity, race, and recovery in African American history. By highlighting Morrison's narrative techniques and the complex interplay between trauma and identity, the thesis provides a detailed analysis of how past experiences continue to influence adult relationships and behavior.
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    Family on the Frontier
    (University of Oum El Bouaghi, 2024) Hadj aissa, Aya; Laouar, Lamis Wissal; Haddad, Mordjana
    Née dans une famille orthodoxe de l'Idaho et ayant travaillé dans une décharge, Tara Westover, dans "Educated: A Memoir" (2018), raconte son parcours de négociation de son identité, d'autonomisation et de libération des croyances (erronées) que sa famille lui avait inculquées. Le récit met en lumière le rôle crucial que la famille joue dans l'éducation de ses enfants et les problèmes psychologiques qui peuvent surgir lorsqu'il existe un dysfonctionnement dans ses dynamiques naturelles. Ainsi, cette recherche vise à explorer l'évolution de la personnalité de Tara Westover ; la libération de la manipulation et du contrôle exercés par son père et, plus important encore, comment elle se remet de l'expérience familiale traumatisante en tant qu'autodidacte. S'appuyant sur les perspectives théoriques de Melanie Klein, Wilfred Bion, et les concepts de manipulation mentale et d'invalidation, l'étude explique le parcours et le passage de Tara de la confusion à une compréhension claire de son expérience ; en d'autres termes, la réconciliation avec son ancien moi. Enfin, cette recherche aborde une problématique universelle délicate : il est difficile de surmonter les problèmes familiaux rencontrés par les enfants dès leur jeune âge, et soutient que le livre de Westover éduque le public et leur offre une histoire pleine d'espoir qui peut ouvrir leurs yeux sur leurs problèmes afin de les résoudre.
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    Identity Crisis in Jamaica Kincaid’s Lucy (1990)
    (Larbi Ben M’hidi University-Oum El Bouaghi, 2021) Boulakhras, Rayane; Kouachi, Roumaissa; Haddad, Mordjana
    This research aims at exploring the reasons behind the identity crisis of the eponymous character in Lucy written by Jamaica Kincaid in 1990. It explains this crisis through the use of mother-daughter relationship which implies the relation between the colonizer and the colonized. Consequently, it shows that Lucy's identity crisis represents a recurrent theme in Caribbean literature, and more importantly, it refers to Caribbean identity that is basically characterized by rootlessness and search for identity through voluntary exile. Then, this work argues that the exile does not help the character find one's self or forget her past. The only positive side of this exile, one may say, that it contributes to Lucy's education as a young woman and teaches her that even if she flees her past and community she will never get rid of them because they live inside her. Moreover, this study aims to reveal that Lucy's crisis can be explained from Sigmund Freud's psychosexual phases, namely, the oral and the genital. It argues that Lucy suffered from a trauma in these two phases that led to her crisis.
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    Is this Africa? or the (In)complete stereotypes: on the image of Africa in Blood Diamond film (2006)
    (University of Oum El Bouaghi, 2023) Ghamri, Fatima Zohra; Haddad, Mordjana
    This study explores the negative way Africa is represented in popular imagination and media with a specific focus on Blood Diamond Film, directed in 2006 by Edward Zwick. It aims to disclose a series of stereotypical images that, as depicted in the film, revolve around Africa such as political unrest and corruption, disease, famine, and poverty. Besides, it argues that these stereotypical perceptions are incomplete as they hide beneath the true reasons behind their construction. To this end, this research underlines the natural resources, as the main reason and a curse story, that make the continent the center of attention and greed for the West. It sheds light on this reason with reference to the illegal diamond trade and consumption in Sierra Leone during the 1990s civil war. It shows how Africa generally falls victim to the greed of multinational corporations by investigating the relationship between Africa and the West and through the analysis of film’s characters, who represent models that range from hypocrisy to ambivalence, from corruption to honesty, and from innocence to resistance.
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    Not too light and bright
    (Oum-El-Bouaghi, 2020) Bouzid, Nadjet; Haddad, Mordjana
    Women in Regency England suffered from various forms of marginalization and oppression. They were denied equal rights to men and were treated in harsh ways that did not suit human beings. Amidst such circumstances, Jane Austen lived and wrote. Through her pen, Austen condemns and criticizes the unfair treatments that women received in a patriarchal imperial society. Women, at the time, were slaves in all but name. So, this study aims at showing that Austen's novels, namely, Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), and Persuasion (1817), vividly depict the suffering of women via drawing a parallel between the conditions of slaves with that of women. However, for Edward Said, Austen is considered as one of the western writers who promoted for the imperial project through their literary production. This study counter argues Said's stand by confirming the opposite, which is to prove Austen's anti-imperialist stand. It sheds light on Austen's analogous technique in highlighting women's suffering and slaves' suffering through the metaphor of slave trade and marriage market. As such, this research combines both Feminism and Postcolonialism to demonstrate Austen's awareness and criticism of patriarchy and imperialism. It turns out that the overlapping relationship between Feminism and Postcolonialism gives Austen's novels a new dimension in which Austen appears as a postcolonial feminist authoress par excellence.
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    Social (In) justice and dystopian (Im) morals in the attack on titan anime (2013-2023)
    (University of Oum El Bouaghi, 2024) Daoui, Nourreddine; Haddad, Mordjana
    Anime is watched by a wide range of people and so, it transcends its entertainment nature. As with any cultural/artistic medium, it could be a host of different ideologies and discuss timeless themes related to human nature and social structures such as social justice and morals. Attack on Titan, a four-season Japanese anime, that premiered in 2013 and concluded in 2023 has gained immense popularity around the globe, and presents rich material for analyzing the aforementioned themes. The anime revolves around the journey of Eren Yeager and his comrades toward justice-making against the oppressive system established by the Marleyans. To unfold the hidden nature of the power dynamics of the oppressor and its ideology, the study appeals to Marxist criticism. Likewise, the Marxist theory is employed to discuss Yeager’s vision of the utopian society; which he blindly believes to be achieved through immoral acts. Here, in a dystopian context, the thin line that blurs morals and immorals, and social justice and social injustice needs to be drawn up. In the end, the viewer finds out that Yeager turns into another oppressor, and this takes the viewer to the starting point of the narrative. So, the research aims to demonstrate the cyclical nature of the power dynamics (oppressor/oppressed) leading to an eternal crisis about justice and morals. The fruit of this research is that war is inevitable. Immorality will eventually progress, always leading to the same outcome thus, facing evil by evil is never the solution as portrayed by the narrative in Attack on Titan.
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    Space and the uncanny in anne radcliffe’s the mysteries of udolpho 1794
    (Université De Larbi Ben M’hidi Oum EL Bouaghi, 2022) Khiari, Yasmine; Haddad, Mordjana
    The present study examines how space as a structural and conceptual notion highlights the experience of Gothic horror in Anne Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho. For in-stance, it underlines the importance of spatial form and the spatialisation of the narrative aspects like focalisation. It ultimately aims to demonstrate that space is regarded as a practical and significant tool for the interpretation of horror psychology. Through the application of Freud's theory of "the Uncanny", space is taken as a reinforced phenomenon itself via being a defamiliarizing and an uncontrolled setting to which the characters are primarily bound. To stress upon the importance of space, the novel is also approached for the analysis of the characters and their subjective experiences vis-à-vis space employing the principles of "the Uncanny", like, the Doppelg?nger and repetition compulsion. Overall, the study encourages a different way of looking at space in literature; a way of reading and perceiving space through various illustrations and critical comments.
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    Storytelling and PTSD in Pat Barker’s Regeneration.
    (Oum-El-Bouaghi, 2020) Rehab Bekkouche, Wassim; Drif, Farid; Haddad, Mordjana
    The reason is that both of the methods assist in addressing the repressed experiences of individuals who both mentally and verbally troubled by WWI. Barker expresses her scepticism and protest against the modern sense of order and enlightenment ideas. She experiments with unconventional literary devices and narrative styles that subvert the linear narratives that reflect the experiences of those officers. The role of Rivers is to reflect on their experiences and assist them in reshaping their fragmented stories. This research investigates the nature of the relationship between fiction and healing PTSD. It also aims at highlighting techniques that demonstrate that relationship.
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    The Enduring appeal of survival films between representation and reception in against the Ice (2022) and Mad Max: fury road (2015)
    (University of Oum El Bouaghi, 2023) Bencheikh, Fakhreddine; Haddad, Mordjana
    This Research aims to investigate the enduring appeal of survival films. It highlights the patterns of the survival genre by analysing two feature films, Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) and Against the Ice (2022). The genre develops a peculiar bond with the audience as it addresses their unconscious desires and needs which cannot be expressed in their real life. To this end, the study employs Psychoanalytic concepts; the Jungian Collective Unconscious and the Lacanian Real. It, additionally, touches upon the perception of the audience, through the use of the Reception theory, by probing into the emotional dynamics involved in the viewing experience. It, moreover, emphasizes the significance of natural sceneries in the creation of such films for the purpose of enhancing viewers’ experience.
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    The Perception of refugees in Dina Nayeri’s "the ungrateful refugee": what immigrants never tell you 2019 between “strangers to themselves” and othering
    (University of Oum El Bouaghi, 2023) Guessoum, Khawla Zakia; Haddad, Mordjana
    Under unfavorable conditions such as wars, conflicts, political instability and religious persecution, refugees forcibly leave their homelands and arrive as foreigners in the host countries. In the journey of seeking acceptance and new home in the West, they find themselves othered and looked on as strangers. Dina Nayeri, an Iranian writer, represents the experience of refugees and the difficulties they face while setting up in the Western countries; gathering stories of various characters who she encountered during her journey as a refugee. So, this research aims to examine Dina Nayeri'sThe Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell you (2019) through shedding light on the theme of Othering; the sum of difficulties refugees typically face during that journey. In the process of Othering, the refugees give up a part of them and become strangers to themselves. To this end, I find a way for Julia Kristeva's concept of the "foreigner" to be applied in this study. Moreover, the research aims to show that being "Strangers to themselves" does not only pertain to the refugees, but also and interestingly can be used to refer to the westerners. In other words, it can be said that a person's perception of strangeness is not only limited to the "other" but can extend to all people; both refugees and Westerners are strangers to themselves.
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    Two women, a man and a house
    (University of Oum El Bouaghi, 2024) Benjedou, Hibet Erahmen; Haddad, Mordjana
    The present research highlights the relevance of space as a subjective within, Rebecca, the gothic narrative written by Daphne du Maurier in 1938. It shines a light on how identities are shaped by/shape space. To do so, the research relies on Freud’s model of the psyche and Jung’s archetypes to understand the characters’ constructed identities. Likewise, it shows how space— the estate of Manderley in the novel— is influenced/influences these identities through exploring concepts of “the uncanny” and “liminality”. In the end, the symbiotic correlation identity/space, in this study, is called spatial fluidity; as space ascends as a dynamic agent and integral character rather than a mere setting for significantly affecting the emotional and mental state of other characters.
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    Ubermensch morality in dostoevsky's crime and punishment
    (Université Oum El Bouaghi, 2021) Khamer, Morad; Haddad, Mordjana
    Ethics, also called moral philosophy, is the discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong. Humans have pondered upon how they ought to live, and what should govern them in their behavior ever since they have had a conscience. If we follow God's morality in our lives, then we are following the Divine Command Theory. If we judge moral actions by which produce the most pleasure, then we subscribe to Utilitarianism. If we choose to come up with our own moral and value system, then we are living by the words of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky discusses in his novel Crime and Punishment the above possibilities, and attempts to provide an answer to the aforementioned questions. This research probes Dostoevsky's novel in relation to deep moral concepts and discusses them in retrospect to various moral theories including: The Divine Command Theory and Utilitarianism. For a better understanding of all these theories, this study provides a comparison between Dostoevsky's and Nietzsche's philosophies, and sheds light on the divergences and convergences they have. It also applies these theories by analyzing the protagonist of the novel, Raskolnikov, that embraces many of Nietzsche's moral philosophy and concepts such as the ?bermensch, master/slave morality and will to power. In this research, I argue that morality is not subjective to an individual's perspective, but rather to an objective truth that should be followed to the dot. In this regard, I fully subscribe to Dostoevsky's representation of morality, God and truth in his novel, while I reject Nietzsche's philosophy and its interpretation of the world and its inhabitants.
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    When the flâneur becomes the city
    (Université De Larbi Ben M’hidi Oum EL Bouaghi, 2022) Nouar, Chaima; Haddad, Mordjana
    The present research highlights the dimensions of the human experience in the modernist city taking the figure of the flâneur as a study sample, for its importance in making the urban space. It studies and analyses Teju Cole's Open City from a psychogeographical lens providing its different characteristics such as the dérive and the détournement. The work focuses especially on the ever-changing gaze of the flâneur, and by extension, the changes which occur on the figure since its efflorescence in Baudelaire's and Benjamin's works. It shows, further, the importance of the flâneur as a historical figure in tracing New York's history. Furthermore, it argues that the flâneur is an example of resistance against the foundations of a capitalist cosmopolitan city. Finally, this research argues that Teju Cole's flâneur not only resembles the 19th century flâneur in many aspects but also leads, implicitly, to the foundation that the characters of the flâneur and the city are melted to be one.
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    Womanism in Kathryn Stockett's
    (Université de Larbi Ben M’hidi-Oum Oum El Bouaghi, 2021) Beldjoudi, Abir; Haddad, Mordjana
    Kathryn Stockett's The Help (2009) interestingly sheds light on the economic and social status of black women working as maids for the whites during the 1960s, the period of the Civil Rights Movement. So, this research seeks to investigate many themes related to the black women within the white society. It first highlights their historical, social, and economic conditions and evaluates the impact of the Civil Rights Movement on these conditions whether it liberated them or worsened their oppression. It also investigates the double oppression black women face. As a result, this study, reveals three dimensions of relations within the novel: Black vs. Black, Black vs. White, White vs. White. For this reason, this study employs Alice Walker's Womanism because it covers these three relations and most importantly because it puts at the center black women problems and gives importance to how they find ways to their empowerment.
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    Women and the city in cyprian ekwensi's Jagua Nana
    (University Of Oum El Bouaghi, 2019) Hacini, Meryem; Haddad, Mordjana
    Generally speaking, the postcolonial city inherited Western urbanization and modernization that have given women a relative freedom and helped them to change positions in their society. This research examines the representation of Lagos City in Cyprian Ekwensi's Jagua Nana and displays the lives and experiences of individuals, particularly women characters within it. In other words, it investigates the relationship between women and the city and how they influence each other. To do so, this study uses different approaches such as postcolonialism and feminism-that can be called urban feminism. First, it shows the characteristics of the postcolonial city at two main levels: the physical and the social. The reader learns about those characteristics through the daily details of women life, especially through the eyes of Jagua Nana. Moreover, it sheds light on women roles, social positions, political engagement, and economic contribution - and more importantly it focuses on the theme of prostitution, not as a social moral problem, but as an economic tactic that leads sometimes to women empowerment in an urban setting. Finally, this study comes out with the idea that there exists a bound relation between the city and the woman in Jagua Nana. It concludes that the city can be compared to a woman more than a mere setting in the novel.