Browsing by Thesis Advisor "Kaussen, Valerie"
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Displaced voices and accentscapes in French and Francophone Sub-Saharan cinema : recasting, reshaping, and restoring identity (-ies) in transnational films
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)This study features notions of identity, language, integration, journeys of home seeking and homecoming, and the wanderings of homelessness. It explores displaced voices and the self-coined term "accentscape" in ten films ... -
A glimpse of African identity through the lens of Togolese literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)Togo, this small West African nation, is still relatively unknown, even in today's jet set world. The western world is only now discovering the numerous advances Togo has made in its social and economic policies, but most ... -
Propaganda, masculinity, and the French interwar novel
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)My dissertation centers on literary representations of non-normative gender performances, the struggle around new gender norms, and the lived realities of gender in pre- and post-World War I- (WWI) era France. The novels ... -
Rethinking French identity through literature : the case of four 21st century novels.
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Reading French newspapers or watching TV broadcasts in the mid-teens of the twenty-first century, it is hard to deny or to ignore that France is currently (or still) undergoing an identity crisis. This crisis is of course ...