Charming Fictions and Guilty Repetitions: Authorship Other(-)wise by Calixthe Beyala and Carol Shields

My comparative analysis disrupts the notion that Shields is a compliant immigrant whose focus on women's domestic lives fails to address broad social issues. It similarly calls into question Beyala's contrary reputation as a provocative immigrant who refuses integration and is concerned primarily with self-promotion. These two very different writers together theorize an authorship for the age of transnationalism that relies on gesture, repetition and a manipulative autobiographical inscription to respond to some of the contemporary challenges posed by geopolitics and its cultural divides.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Comparative Literature

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Carson, Emily Charlotte Pederson

Contributors dc:contributor

• Blake, Nancy

• Women's Studies

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3290191

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/87295