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Item Black bodies and the market system(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024) Tchatchou, Marcel; Kaussen, ValerieThis dissertation posits that regardless of the current market system's nature and structure, the black body has an already defined and fixed colonial ontological function: a subsidizing entity. In the postcolonial era, three processes are put into place to perpetuate this order: The first is the control of a preferential political black elite. The second is the entertainment of anomy generated by the inability of the market system and preferred subservient elites to create economic development for their ontologized people. The third is the perpetuation of extraction, the goal of prominent market players that derives from the two previous conditions. My study analyses three twentieth-century Afro-Caribbean books. As this work shows, these books represent colonialism and slavery and their socio-economic structures and epistemologies not as history and not even as ghosts that haunt the present but as persistent and continuing in contemporary neoliberal market capitalism structures. The books are Haitian writer Jacques Stephen Alexis's Les Arbres musiciens (1957) [The Musician Trees], two Congolese novels, La Vie et demie (1979) [Life and a Half] by Sony Labou Tansy; Johnny chien Mechant (2002) [Johnny Mad Dog] by Emmanuel Dongala. Despite the religiosity of neoliberal ideologies and market principles, African and Caribbean narratives often reject the dogma of western imposed extractive market principles. Thus, the nonwestern big market players with significant economic and military influence are beginning to demand and invent a revamped global system.Item Otilia Rauda, la encarnacion de la mujer Mexicana subversiva(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024) Perez-Picasso, Veronica R.; Perez-Anzaldo, GuadalupeThis dissertation examines the representation of female agency within a patriarchal society through a comparative analysis of Sergio Galindo's novel Otilia Rauda (1986), Dana Rotberg's screenplay adaptation, and the subsequent film Otilia Rauda, la mujer del pueblo (2001). Set in late 19th and early 20th century Veracruz, Mexico, the narrative follows Otilia Rauda as she challenges the constraints imposed upon her by patriarchal norms. By juxtaposing these three textual manifestations, this study explores how the protagonist's defiance of traditional gender roles destabilizes the familial and societal structures of her time.Item Pouvoir discursif et voix subalternes : representations intersectionnelles du travail domestique feminin au cinema et a la television(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024) Zemirline, Maelle Romane; Muratore, Mary JoCette etude examine la representation du travail des femmes dans les metiers domestiques et de l'aide a la personne, en mettant en lumiere les experiences des femmes racisees, telles qu'exprimees dans des oeuvres cinematographiques et televisuelles. En se concentrant sur trois oeuvres specifiques : le court-metrage La Noire de... (1966) d'Ousmane Sembene, le film Roma (2018) d'Alfonso Cuaron, et le documentaire Debout les femmes (2021) de Francois Ruffin et Gilles Perret, cette analyse vise a explorer les mecanismes d'oppression et de resistance a travers les prismes de la race, du genre et de la classe sociale. En s'appuyant sur la theorie du biopouvoir de Michel Foucault et en integrant des perspectives critiques non euro-centriques, notamment celles de Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak et Maria Lugones, cette etude cherche a elucider les discours persistants sous-jacents aux productions anticoloniales et/ou marxistes. A travers une approche comparative des oeuvres malgre leurs divergences culturelles, geographiques et temporelles, cette analyse examine la persistance des paradigmes coloniaux dans les representations contemporaines du travail des femmes.Item Triste Deleytacion : studies on authorship and intended audience(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024) Munoz Muela, Jose Luis; Moore, Megan; Reyna, IvanTriste Deleytacion is a sentimental romance of the late XIVth century written in what is now Spain. Not being published until the 1980s, it has raised many questions regarding its intention, authorship or connection to other books of the time. In this paper, there is an analysis of the sentimental romance and how Triste Deleytacion relates to it, adding as well a brief study of female literacy in the Middle Ages, which helps contextualize the intended audience of the book. Lastly, a study of Triste Deleytacion (as well as a transcription of the two adjacent manuscript) is presented, in which its literary context, date of composition and authorship are analyzed.Item La demystification des pretentions humanistes du colonialisme dans une vie de boy et le vieux negre et la medaille de ferdinand oyono(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2024) Etienne, Robinson; Muratore, Mary JoSince late 15th century, Europeans have conquered the world based on evangelization and civilization. According to their ideology, Africans, Caribbeans and other indigenous people were savages in need of Christianization and civilization. Soon their mission became the full-scale exploitation of this population. The treatment they inflicted on them was inhumane, and many people criticized and rejected colonialism through various means, including the tip of the pen. Oyono wrote two novels in the same year. He paints a dark picture of colonialism and its impact on the characters. These are always represented in terms of characteristics, attributes, or characteristics of an animal or thing. This brings us to the jungle where human values disappear. In other words, colonialism dehumanized people.