http://dspace.univ-mascara.dz:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/32 Thu, 21 May 2026 18:55:39 GMT 2026-05-21T18:55:39Z http://dspace.univ-mascara.dz:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/255 Titre: The Economy of Being: Temporality and Narrativity in Slave Narratives Case of: Harriet Jacobs ‘Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl’ (1861) and Frederick Douglass’s ‘Narrative of the Life Auteur(s): MEZIANE, Soumia Résumé: The fulcrum of the present work lies in the relationship that binds time to narrative and narrativity aspects in two major slave narratives. We speak of the ex-slaves; Harriet Jacobs with her ‘Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl’ (1861) and Frederick Douglass in his ‘Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave’ (1845) as a case in point. The genesis of this study is to reveal the several temporal insights within the portrayal of the authors’ lives as slaves. The research delineates the issue of time which has been subject of several debates and controversy. The different views regarding time are to be exposed. From another perspective, we will draw on horizons of understanding narrative chemistry. Thus, the present paper builds on an analysis of slaves’ self-narration in temporal confines. In an attempt to see through the lenses of Jacobs and Douglass we have opted for this study which has objectives ;both the discussion of how far time plays a central role in slave narratives and how far the narrative condition is there. 122 Fri, 02 Feb 2018 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.univ-mascara.dz:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/255 2018-02-02T00:00:00Z http://dspace.univ-mascara.dz:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/205 Titre: Female Opposition to Women Parliamentary Franchise in England and its Impact on the Suffrage Movement (1908-1918) Auteur(s): GOURCHEL, Laounia Résumé: In the nineteenth century, the female suffrage movement was launched by women suffragists in Great Britain (England as a case study) in 1866 to call for the parliamentary enfranchisement of women. As a response to the female suffrage movement, the female anti-suffrage movement sprang up in 1889 to oppose the grant of the parliamentary franchise for women. The female anti-suffrage movement was carried on by women antis till 1908 when it started in an organized way through the resort to anti-suffrage organizations. This research work endeavours to tackle the reasons behind the female opposition to the parliamentary vote although it concerned all women. All the arguments, which were put forward, shared the resentment of the political equality between men and women through the acquisition of the parliamentary vote. This research sheds light also on the outcome of the female opposition which was failure. The defeat of the female anti-suffrage campaign was seen through the partial enfranchisement of women over the age of thirty in 1918. Mon, 05 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.univ-mascara.dz:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/205 2016-12-05T00:00:00Z http://dspace.univ-mascara.dz:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/202 Titre: The Representation of Otherness in J.M. Coetzee’s Fiction: Hegelian Reading. Case Study: Waiting for the Barbarians and Disgrace. Auteur(s): DJEBBAR, Ibtissam Résumé: The present work investigates the representation of Otherness in the South African writer J.M. Coetzee’s fiction following a Hegelian reading. Among his writings, the novels “Waiting for the Barbarians” (1980) and “Disgrace ” (1999) are the selected ones to be analysed. The aim of the present research is to explore whether Hegel’s Master/Slave dialectic is applicable to Coetzee’s representation of Otherness in the selected works. The investigation first outlines the concept of Otherness. Then, it discusses Hegel’s theory and attempts to correlate his concept of the Master/Slave with the Self/Other relationship found in Othering. Both novels portray strong characters; however personal power does not protect them from reversal of status. The history, culture, and political context of South Africa are at the core in transmitting a more complete picture of the opposition between mastery and slavery. South Africa suffered of the oppressive regime of the Apartheid and the recovering from its aftermaths in the post-era was not that easy. To conclude, the South African writer J.M. Coetzee discusses Otherness and the complications of the master/ slave relationship on many different levels by including sex, gender and race. Mon, 05 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.univ-mascara.dz:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/202 2016-12-05T00:00:00Z http://dspace.univ-mascara.dz:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/198 Titre: The Use of the Unreliable Narrator in Postmodernist British Novel: Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001) and Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending (2011) Auteur(s): HOUARI, Rayhane Résumé: This study aims to highlight the subject matter of the unreliable narrator as a narrative strategy adopted in postmodernist fictions. As asserted by many critics, the unreliable narrator has triggered a wave of ecumenical research. Accordingly, this research work orbits around three major aims: to find out the purpose of postmodernist writers in making use of such a literary technique in their literary texts; and this will help to trace the borders between the postmodernist theory and the unreliable narrator. It seeks also to comparatively analyse this literary device in two selected novels: Atonement (2001) by Ian McEwan and the Sense of an Ending (2011) by Julian Barnes in order to demonstrate the distinction between the two novels in terms of similarities and differences in what concerns the narrators’ types and function. Therefore, the methodology that has been followed is twofold; theoretical and comparative-analytical. The findings, hence, reveal that the authors used this technique as a way to show the truth and not to hide it except for some events which bring their narrators disappointments because both novels fall under the self-narrative categorisation. Moreover, the postmodernist background of both authors contributes to their implementation of such a narrative strategy as they both believe in the veracity of truths. The reader can discover a new identity about both narrators; Ian McEwan’s Briony as being a deliberately untrustworthy narrator and Julian Barnes’ Tony as being a self-deceived yet a sincere fallible narrator. Finally, the narrators’ memories contribute to a great extent in their unreliability as they are both aged personas and they rely on a retrospective narrative. Tue, 15 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://dspace.univ-mascara.dz:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/198 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z