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    Women’s Autobiographical Novels: A comparative Study between Charlote Brontё’s Villette (1853) and Taos Amrouche’s Jacinthe Noire (1947)
    (Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou, 2019) Frahi, Tassadit
    This dissertation investigates the autobiographical discourse in Charlotte Brontё’s Villette (1853) and Taos Amrouche’ Jacinthe Noire (1947) through a comparison of various aspects of the two narratives. This study relies on Philip Leujene’s ‘autobiographical pact’ that delineates the scope of the autobiography genre and provides the necessary material to distinguish it from the autobiographical novel and other literary forms. The analysis also resorts to Elizabeth R. Baer Dean’s “The Journey Inward: Women’s Autobiography” which perceives women’s autobiography as an outward and inward journey to remember, reflect or reveal truth within themselves. This dissertation aims to demonstrate that the two writers appeal to the autobiographical writing to provide a deep insight into their inner lives and convey their perception of feminine identities as freed from patriarchal worldview and ostracism. This work contains three chapters. The first chapter is dedicated to the exploration of the socio-political contexts in the narratives. The second chapter retraces the inward and outward journeys undertaken by the two protagonists in their quests of self-fulfilment. The third chapter tackles the representation of the writers’ identity through their fictional doubles. As a conclusion, it is found that, though the two novels belong to two different literary traditions and backgrounds, they convey women’s need to share their experiences in order to make their voices audible.