Towards a Translatlantic Ethnotext : algerian Kabyle; Moroccan Rifian and Maghrebi; and US Choctaw and Canadian Mi'kmaq in Autobiographical Writings from North Africa and North America

• Main Author: Sadaoui, Chérif
• Other Authors: Textes, Théories, Numérique (TTN), Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Université Paris-Nord - Paris XIII, Chantal J. Zabus, Kamal Naït-Zerrad
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2019
• Subjects: Ethnotext; Relexification; Transatlantic; Proverbs; Ethnotexte; Transatlantique; Proverbes; [SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics; Canada; Rilla; Mi’kmaq
• Online Access: https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03506267; https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03506267/document; https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-03506267/file/ederasme_th_2019_sadaoui.pdf

This thesis explores the notion of the ethnotext, which is, in Chantal Zabus’ terms, composed of: ‘[…] discursive elements ranging from rules of address, riddles, praise names and dirges to the use of proverbs”. (Zabus, The African Palimpsest) as a way of resistance to linguistic domination. This no...