{"id":19751,"date":"2020-03-17T11:46:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T15:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/?p=19751"},"modified":"2020-11-27T14:09:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T19:09:01","slug":"onesta-passes-dissertation-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/2020\/03\/17\/onesta-passes-dissertation-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Onesta Passes Dissertation Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cristina Onesta, doctoral student in our French Language &amp; Literatures degree, has successfully passed the oral examination of her doctoral dissertation. Congratulations, Cristina!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Cristina&#8217;s dissertation is titled <em>Aesthetic Objects in Contemporary Francophone Literature &amp; Cinema<\/em>. She tells us:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This dissertation examines the representation of aesthetic objects in contemporary Francophone literature and cinema, with special attention to Francophone African countries, particularly Senegal and Mauritius, and their diasporas. I focus on a range of objects, such as photos, the camera, paintings, personal accessories, and the body, which, I argue, function as a metaphor for the creative process. These \u2018objects\u2019 have a deep link with the character\u2019s inner life and enable a process of healing and remembering.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cristina Onesta, doctoral student in our French Language &amp; Literatures degree, has successfully passed the oral examination of her doctoral dissertation. Congratulations, Cristina!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1714,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16403],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1714"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22202,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19751\/revisions\/22202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}