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L'Enjeu du jeu: L'Identité comme performance dans La Voyeuse interdite et Garçon manqué de Nina Bouraoui

Grimm, Rachel Mihuta
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1340130803

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2012, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Ohio University, French.
This thesis critically examines the construction, manipulation, and performance of identity in La Voyeuse interdite (1991) and Garçon manqué (2000) by Nina Bouraoui, a contemporary Franco-Algerian lesbian author. As a postcolonial female writer, Bouraoui challenges both colonial and patriarchal discourse. Throughout this thesis, I argue that postcolonialism (as both a school of thought and a political and social reality) must confront an increasingly ambiguous world where essentialist assumptions about identity deteriorate. Identity, I argue, is not an intrinsic characteristic or the expression of an individual’s essence, but rather the effect or the construction of a multiplicity of cultural, ethnic, political, and social influences. By analyzing identity as a stylized, ritualized, and repeated social performance, I call attention to the power structures that legitimize and normalize these performances. This thesis is a multifaceted theoretical approach to Bouraoui’s writing, incorporating scholarship in performance studies along with postcolonial and feminist theories.
Lois Vines, PhD (Advisor)
Ghirmai Negash, PhD (Advisor)
Carey Snyder, PhD (Committee Member)
Jeremy Webster, PhD (Committee Member)
119 p.
African Literature; Foreign Language; Literature; North African Studies
Nina Bouraoui; Gar&231; on manqu&233; ; La Voyeuse interdite; Algeria; identity; performance; postcolonialism; feminism

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  • Grimm, R. M. (2012). L'Enjeu du jeu: L'Identité comme performance dans La Voyeuse interdite et Garçon manqué de Nina Bouraoui [Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1340130803

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Grimm, Rachel. L'Enjeu du jeu: L'Identité comme performance dans La Voyeuse interdite et Garçon manqué de Nina Bouraoui. 2012. Ohio University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1340130803.

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  • Grimm, Rachel. "L'Enjeu du jeu: L'Identité comme performance dans La Voyeuse interdite et Garçon manqué de Nina Bouraoui." Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1340130803

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