Browsing by Author "Houria, Mihoubi"

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    The Contribution of Eurocentric Literature to the Emergence of African Post Colonial Literature
    (2015-04) Houria, Mihoubi
    Abstract This research paper is principally intended to comprehensively examine the contribution of Eurocentric literature to the emergence of African Post colonial Literature. Most Western critics had a firm belief that African literature was a reaction to the distorted image of Africa as portrayed in the Western Eurocentric literature. The present article thoroughly discusses the African reaction to the Eurocentric portrayal of Africa and the Africans which had often tended to portray all that is African in an extremely negative way to the Western reader. The research focuses on Algerian literature as a case study.
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    The Radical Thought and Autobiography in American Literature
    (2014-04) Houria, Mihoubi
    Abstract Autobiography as a literary genre isan account of a person's life written by him. obviously an autobiography runs the danger of being highly subjective since it is confined to the author’s life, experiences, and world view. In autobiography, the author often finds an opportunity to express his own thought that can be radical.The first purpose of the article is to treat the radical thought through four American autobiographies: Frederick Douglass The Life of F. Douglass, Richard Wright’s Black Boy, Mary Grow Dog’s Lakota Women, and Henry David Thoreau’s Walden. The other objective is to shed light on how these writers tried, by narrating their lives, to convey to the reader of their radical views of society and therefore, sought to foster social reform. Frederick Douglas and Richard Wright wrote to defend and argue for abolitionism, Mary Grow Dog wrote to ask for a better place for the American Indian women in the American society, while Henry David Thoreau defended environmentalism as a philosophy of life.