Les frontières de l'exil: figures et territoires de l'étranger
2019-08
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Les frontières de l'exil: figures et territoires de l'étranger
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My doctoral dissertation entitled The Borders of Exile: Figures and Territories of Foreignness, reinterprets the notion of the border as an expanding territory of estrangement and seclusion in the aftermath of colonialism and the Shoah, in an era characterized by global market economies. While allegedly situated beyond racial and sexual hegemonic claims, I show how this globalized economy in fact recreates or intensifies a concept of “zone(s)” --as defined by Frantz Fanon in Les damnés de la terre, 1961--that draws centers and margins, and establishes sites of domination structured by a historical and political unconscious. At the core of this unconscious lies the figure of the enemy or the adversary. The latter is an essential biopolitical and theological representation of otherness and foreignness through which a specific border definition can be established as limit rather than hyphen. Thus, in my project, I scrutinize a multidimensional literary corpus comprised of works by figures such as Jean Genet (1910-1986), Patrick Modiano (1945), Bernard-Marie Koltès (1948-1989), Koffi Kwahulé (1956), Marie NDiaye (1967), Wajdi Mouawad (1968), and Léonora Miano (1973), each of whose works investigate a certain definition and practice of power and sovereignty as part of an ethical and moral reflection on “evil,” or as Rüdiger Safranski defined it, as the moral and ethical burden that accompanies the practice of freedom (Evil, or the Drama of Freedom, 1997).
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University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2019. Major: French. Advisors: Bruno Chaouat, Sylvie Chalaye. 1 computer file (PDF); vi, 443 pages.
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Rauer, Selim. (2019). Les frontières de l'exil: figures et territoires de l'étranger. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/208985.
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