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Favey, Hannah (2019)

Interrogating Colonial Binaries of Time and Self: The empowerment of alternative narratives of the past and present in Gisèle Halimi’s Fritna and Brigitte Smadja’s Le jaune est sa couleur

Master thesis | Middle Eastern Studies (MA)

The works of Gisèle Halimi, and Brigitte Smadja each challenge the implied historical rupture constructed between the colonial and the post-colonial. In their works, they use multiple characters to subvert the accepted singular narrative of colonialism and its impacts, thereby highlighting the multiple and intersecting identities of all participants in the colonial discourse. This thesis aims to review the works constructed by these authors, placing great consideration on each of the authors’ own “intrasubjective complexity”, the way that their intersecting identities interact to formulate identity, and the impact that this has on their portrayal of characters.

Author

Favey, Hannah

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Modern Middle Eastern Studies

Supervisors

Nalbantian, Tsolin

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en