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Two female Francophone characters, Black and Indigenous: from the loss of voice and identity to the reconstruction of their ancestral roots in Maria Campbell's Halfbreed (1973) and Ken Bugul's Le Baobab fou (1982).

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2025-01-31

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0009-0008-3478-6810

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Thesis

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Masters

Abstract

As part of this dissertation, I propose to offer a comparative study of two works in which the main female characters, who are also the narrators, face an identity crisis that gives rise to a strong desire for self-reconstruction associated with the need to (re)discover their ancestral roots: Le baobab fou (1982) by the Senegalese novelist Ken Bugul, whose real name is Mariétou Mbaye Biléoma, and Halfbreed (1973) by Maria Campbell, an author born in the Canadian Prairies. More specifically, the two writers present the intimate journey of a Black or Indigenous woman who, in the face of social prejudice, turns to her childhood, her primitive sources, and her writing to delve into her origins. This work will begin by examining the loss of voice and self-worth experienced by the two protagonists before focusing on the strategies that each of them uses to free herself from her oppression and rebuild her identity.

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Race, Metis, Discrimination

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Master of Arts (M.A.)

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Languages, Literatures, and Cultural Studies

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Languages

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