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: Paris 13, Zabus, Chantal J., Naït-Zerrad, Kamal
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Ethnotexte; Relexification; Transatlantique; Proverbes; Ethnotext; Transatlantic; Proverbs; lang; litt; Canada; Rilla; Mi’kmaq
• Online Access: http://www.theses.fr/2019PA131071/document

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...