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Rabain, Karine Valerie.

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The prehensile tongue of the chameleon: Identity tactics in francophone literature and culture (Ken Bugul, Farida Belghoul, Zebda, Senegal, Algeria).

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Title/Author:	The prehensile tongue of the chameleon: Identity tactics in francophone literature and culture (Ken Bugul, Farida Belghoul, Zebda, Senegal, Algeria)./
Author:	Rabain, Karine Valerie.
Description:	172 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-07, Section: A, page: 2486.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International64-07A.
Subject:	Literature, Romance. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3097988

The prehensile tongue of the chameleon: Identity tactics in francophone literature and culture (Ken Bugul, Farida Belghoul, Zebda, Senegal, Algeria).
Rabain, Karine Valerie.

The prehensile tongue of the chameleon: Identity tactics in francophone literature and culture (Ken Bugul, Farida Belghoul, Zebda, Senegal, Algeria). - 172 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 64-07, Section: A, page: 2486.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2003.

This study focuses on the tactics used by minorities in Francophone cultures to articulate a relational self-definition, or identity, in their writings, and analyzes the ways such self-definition is for them both enabling and critical of power structures. It draws on feminist theorists such as Rosi Braidotti, Elisabeth Grosz, Carole Boyce Davies, Gloria Anzaldùa and Françoise Lionnet, whose respective understandings of identity move away from notions of unity, coherence and stability. Through the concept of the “chameleon tactic,” my research reconfigures and redefines their concepts of a multiple, relational self, always in negotiation with the outside world. The notion of offensive mimesis is central to my framework as it allows the “chameleon subjects” to recycle the normative constraint imposed by society into a subversive tool. Indeed, they recuperate the models, the discourses, the identities imposed on them by society and, through corporeal and I or discursive irony or de-centering, exposes their imperialistic desires and contradictions. Although the chameleon's multiple identifications may appear schizophrenic, this study proposes instead that the act of writing empowers the chameleon, who is thereby enabled to re-appropriate his I her past experiences and to re-articulate power relations. Through the analysis of three Francophone works, two literary texts, Ken Bugul's <italic> Le Baobab fou</italic> and Farida Belghoul's <italic>Georgette</italic>! and the lyrics of the musical group Zebda, I demonstrate the significance of the “chameleon tactic” as a new reading tool capable of making visible subversive strategies in what could be otherwise interpreted as simply pathological behaviors or simple formal devices.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019014
Literature, Romance.

The prehensile tongue of the chameleon: Identity tactics in francophone literature and culture (Ken Bugul, Farida Belghoul, Zebda, Senegal, Algeria).
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