{"id":26127,"date":"2024-10-02T14:57:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T18:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/?p=26127"},"modified":"2024-10-02T16:55:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T20:55:26","slug":"noudou-successfully-defends-dissertation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/2024\/10\/02\/noudou-successfully-defends-dissertation\/","title":{"rendered":"Noudou Successfully Defends Dissertation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/profile\/anik-noudou\/\">Anik Noudou<\/a>, a doctoral student in our French Language &amp; Literature program, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation this past Monday. Noudou&#8217;s dissertation is titled, <em>A Question of Gaze:\u00a0 The Representation of Women in Fracophone African Novels &amp; Films Forty Years After Mariama B\u00e2<\/em>. From the dissertation abstract:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The portrayal of women in Francophone African literature and cinema has <\/em><em>significantly evolved since the 1979 publication of Mariama B\u00e2&#8217;s Une Si Longue Lettre, <\/em><em>one of the most influential texts to lay an early foundation for women through her deep <\/em><em>critique of oppressing forces such as patriarchy. Drawing on a corpus of ten novels and ten <\/em><em>films produced from 1980 to 2020, I examine how theses texts and films place women at <\/em><em>the forefront of their narratives.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>My analysis explores how the new wave of literary and filmic approaches depicts <\/em><em>women within the intricate framework of gender, culture and politics. In the process, they <\/em><em>highlight the possible pitfalls of addressing African women\u2019s challenges through the lens <\/em><em>of Western feminism. In four chapters, this research seeks to understand how the selected <\/em><em>films and texts utilize the female gaze to create gender and body\u00a0 epresentations that align <\/em><em>with feminist ideologies.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anik Noudou, a doctoral student in our French Language &amp; Literature program, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation this past Monday. Noudou&#8217;s dissertation is titled, A Question of Gaze:\u00a0 The Representation of Women in Fracophone African Novels &amp; Films Forty Years After Mariama B\u00e2. From the dissertation abstract: &#8220;The portrayal of women in Francophone African literature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1714,"featured_media":16489,"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\/26127"}],"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=26127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26136,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26127\/revisions\/26136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/rs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}