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• Documents et Cheminements: tracing the postmemory of the second world war and the Algerian war of independence 

  Charrat, Priscilla Carole (2017-07-12)

  This dissertation proposes ways out of traumatic silence in contemporary French and Francophone North African fiction. While silence has been the focus of trauma-centered texts in recent decades, I bring in the theoretical ...

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• True flesh: pilgrimage, measure, and perfecting the human in Dante’s 'Commedia' 

  Flack, Corey J (2017-03-27)

  Critics of Dante’s Commedia have frequently maintained that the 14th-century poem depicts a “pilgrimage” in the sense of a journey to God, undertaken both in imitation of the actual practice of pilgrimage to holy sites ...

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• Bilingualism and cognition: exploring the bilingual cognitive advantage across the lifespan 

  Boudros, Henrietta N (2017-02-09)

  Research has demonstrated that bilingual children who constantly juggle two languages have better controlled processing and enhanced executive function (Bialystok, 2001; Bialystok & Martin, 2004). These findings have also ...

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• Reversing the French gaze: four Vietnamese Francophone women writers from 1910s to 2000s—Marguerite Triaire, Trinh Thuc Oanh, Ly Thu Ho, and Linda Lê 

  Kwok, Gloria (2016-07-07)

  This dissertation shows how Marguerite Triaire, Trinh Thuc Oanh, Ly Thu Ho and Linda Lê, four women writers of French expression, counter the Orientalist stereotypes propagated in colonial literature and media, and ...

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• Language maintenance by Haitian immigrants in the USA: a case study of the Chicago community 

  Laforet, Johnny Alex (2016-07-15)

  This dissertation addresses fundamental questions regarding the factors that facilitate and/or impede multi-generational mother tongue (L1) maintenance, with an emphasis on immigrant contexts by case-studying the Haitian ...

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