Smoothing out the rough edges

Date Issued:: 2009
Summary:: Both Calixthe Beyala's Le petit prince de Belleville, published in France in 1992, and Cynthia Shearer's The Celestial Jukebox, published in the United States in 2005, explore similar questions regarding the place of immigrants in increasingly multicultural societies. Gilles Deleuze and Fâelix Guattari's concept of - smoothness and - striation illuminates the settings of these two texts, helping demonstrate that the Parisian neighborhood of Belleville presents a striated space dominated by State constraints, from which the residents yearn to break free, and the fictional town of Madagascar, Mississippi consists of relatively smooth space that allows for local improvisation and engenders insecurity. The stories of Loukoum and Boubacar illustrate how these two characters negotiate their respective spaces, with Loukoum creating a position thoroughly between striated majority French culture and the smoothness of his diasporic sphere and Boubacar functioning as a rhizomatic nomad, embarking on an autonomous journey of discovery.

Title:	Smoothing out the rough edges: postcolonial spaces and postcolonial subjectivities in Le petit prince de Belleville and The celestial jukebox.	133 views 49 downloads
Name(s):	Anderson, Karyn H. Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature
Type of Resource:	text
Genre:	Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Date Issued:	2009
Publisher:	Florida Atlantic University
Physical Form:	electronic
Extent:	vi, 73 p.
Language(s):	English
Summary:	Both Calixthe Beyala's Le petit prince de Belleville, published in France in 1992, and Cynthia Shearer's The Celestial Jukebox, published in the United States in 2005, explore similar questions regarding the place of immigrants in increasingly multicultural societies. Gilles Deleuze and Fâelix Guattari's concept of - smoothness and - striation illuminates the settings of these two texts, helping demonstrate that the Parisian neighborhood of Belleville presents a striated space dominated by State constraints, from which the residents yearn to break free, and the fictional town of Madagascar, Mississippi consists of relatively smooth space that allows for local improvisation and engenders insecurity. The stories of Loukoum and Boubacar illustrate how these two characters negotiate their respective spaces, with Loukoum creating a position thoroughly between striated majority French culture and the smoothness of his diasporic sphere and Boubacar functioning as a rhizomatic nomad, embarking on an autonomous journey of discovery.
Identifier:	318335369 (oclc), 186325 (digitool), FADT186325 (IID), fau:2873 (fedora)
Note(s):	by Karyn H. Anderson. Signature page unsigned. Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009. Includes bibliography. Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject(s):	Beyala, Calixthe Shearer, Cynthia Multiculturalism -- Philosophy Emigration and immigration -- Political and social aspects Place (Philosophy) in literature Women authors, Black -- Criticism and interpretation
Persistent Link to This Record:	http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/186325
Use and Reproduction:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Host Institution:	FAU

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