عنوان

Jean Sénac, poet of the Algerian Revolution

Number

TL47963

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Jean Sénac, poet of the Algerian Revolution

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Kai Krienke

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Alcalay, Ammiel

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

City University of New York

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

202

Text of Note

Committee members: Khalil, Andrea; Rupprecht, Caroline

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-29648-8

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Comparative Literature

Body granting the degree

City University of New York

Text preceding or following the note

2014

Text of Note

The work presented here is an exploration of the poetry and life of Jean Sénac, and through Sénac, of the larger role of poetry in the political and social movements of the 50s, 60s, and early 70s, mainly in Algeria and America. While Sénac was part of the European community in Algeria, his position regarding French rule changed dramatically over the course of the Algerian War, (between 1954 and 1962) and upon independence, he became one the rare French to return to his adopted homeland. I will argue, sometimes polemically, that Sénac was and should be considered a properly Algerian poet even though he was (and in many ways still is) considered an outsider because of his European origins, because he had no particular ties to either the Arab or Berber cultures, because he was gay and more fundamentally because he was claiming the right to be an Algerian poet 'who had unequivocally chosen the Algerian nation'. I will also argue that there are important ties to consider between the Algerian and American poetic contexts, which illuminate the larger era of post-colonialism through the poetic expression of popular movements, which often inspired poets in their use of language and their relation to the political space poetry came to occupy.

Comparative literature; American literature; French language; Colonialism; Poetry; Politics; North African studies

Subject Term

Language, literature and linguistics;Social sciences;American poetics;Camus, Albert;North African literature;Olson, Charles;Poetry and resistance;Senac, Jean

Al-Salihi, Nooran Abdulkareem Fattah

Alcalay, Ammiel

Subdivision

Comparative Literature

City University of New York

Call Number

1622145697; 3642626

Electronic name

p

[Thesis]

276903

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