Etablissement Université de Boumerdès - M’hamed Bougara Affiliation Département Anglais Auteur BOUCETHA, Nassira Directeur de thèse Arab

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Etablissement Université de Boumerdès - M’hamed Bougara Affiliation Département Anglais Auteur BOUCETHA, Nassira Directeur de thèse Arab Si Abderrahmane (Professeur) Filière Langue et Litterature Anglaises Diplôme Magister Titre Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) : Twentieth-Century Perspectives Mots clés Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895) Résumé The purpose of this dissertation is to interpret Frederick Douglass’s Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) and Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) from twentieth-century perspectives. To this end, we have read the two slave narratives in the light of twentieth-century black American feminist and political thought as well as literature. This reading of Narrative and Incidents proposes to explore the ways in which the issues that Douglass and Jacobs broached, are taken over by twentieth-century black militants and writers. The aim of this reading is to point out the similarities and/or differences, the continuities and/or discontinuities between the ideas of the two former slaves and those of twentieth-century blacks, while taking into account their respective circumstances. The twentieth-century reading of the two slave narratives calls for Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogism. More exactly, we make use of the response-anticipation principle, which we think appropriate for this case. Our major hypothesis is that Douglass’s and Jacobs’s ideas and feelings, as expressed in their narratives, were a response to nineteenth century white American thought and, at the same time, an anticipation of twentieth-century black American political thought and literary practice. The two geno-texts are thus placed - through this intertextual exercise - at the confluence of nascent African-American literature and historiography Date de soutenance 28/04/2011 Cote 81(043.2)/A7/BOU Pagination 146 p. Illusatration ill. Format 30 cm Notes Bibliogr. Statut Traitée