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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).

dc.contributor.advisorClarke, Marie-Diane
dc.contributor.committeeMemberSpriet, Stella
dc.creatorTchimiebe, Evans Damigu
dc.creator.orcid0009-0008-3478-6810
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-31T22:47:27Z
dc.date.available2025-01-31T22:47:27Z
dc.date.copyright2025
dc.date.created2025-01
dc.date.issued2025-01-31
dc.date.submittedJanuary 2025
dc.date.updated2025-01-31T22:47:27Z
dc.description.abstractAs 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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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10388/16531
dc.language.isofr
dc.subjectRace
dc.subjectMetis
dc.subjectDiscrimination
dc.titleTwo 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).
dc.typeThesis
dc.type.materialtext
thesis.degree.departmentLanguages, Literatures, and Cultural Studies
thesis.degree.disciplineLanguages
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Saskatchewan
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)

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