Poésie et identité culturelle chez F. T. Pacéré : de l'affirmation identitaire à l'humanisme universel

Notre propos cerne d'abord les caractéristiques socio-culturelles de la poésie pacéréenne tout en définissant leur rôle dans la structuration esthétique et sémantique des textes. Il montre ensuite que cette poésie, loin de se limiter à la stricte affirmation identitaire, se veut aussi une poésie ouverte sur le monde, notamment sur les autres peuples et les autres cultures, d'où les marques de son humanisme universel. Il conclut enfin que la poésie pacéréenne, à l'instar de l'ensemble de la poésie burkinabè écrite des années 1970 obéit à une double exigence de type dialogique et dialectique telle que le préconisaient déjà les chantres du mouvement négritudien : enracinement dans sa culture d'origine et ouverture sur le monde. Keywords: Poésie, identité, culture, humanisme. Tydskriff vir Letterkunde Vol. 44 (1) 2007: pp. 202-21

Film adaptation of the post-apartheid South African novel: re-examining the aesthetics of creation of disgrace

While many scholarships of the film adaptation of Disgrace have championed the fidelity rhetoric of the film with respect to J.M. Coetzee's novel, and in so doing, have advocated the axiomatic hierarchy of literature over cinema, this dissertation challenges the fidelity discourse about the film and proposes new tropes for adaptation criticism beyond the classical paradigm. Central to the thesis is the argument that a re-examination of Steve Jacobs's feature film Disgrace unveils the inconsistency and inadequacy of the fidelity rhetoric as a language for adaptation criticism, positions the film as an independent genre with its specificity and poeticity, and allows for an intertextual dialogue with other post-apartheid South African and postcolonial African cinematic productions as a means of promoting adaptation criticism beyond the fidelity model. While cementing the film's independent status vis-à-vis the novel, the intertextual critique also allows for a rewriting of Jacobs's Disgrace that addresses its shortcomings and controversies. Hence, drawing upon structural narratologists such as Gerard Genette, postcolonial scholars such as Gayatri Spivak and Frantz Fanon, and adaptation critics including Linda Hutcheon, Robert Stam, Alexie Tcheuyap, and Lindiwe Dovey, the dissertation explores at a time formal and thematic aesthetics of the film adaptation to diversify its critical avenues not only but also to bridge epistemological gaps left by previous studies which are limited to thematic hermeneutics

Immigrants Access to Healthcare in the United States: Citizens versus Non-Citizen Immigrants

The United States of America has always been a nation favor by immigrants throughout history. The foreign-born proportion of the U.S. population has been steadily rising since 1970. In fact, 13.3% of the nation\u27s population comprised of immigrants in 2014 is the highest rate registered in 94 years. However, this increase in the number of immigrants has been followed by anti-immigrant sentiment, including some attempts to reduce immigrants\u27 access to the health care system. This study examines the probability of accessing health coverage among immigrants by comparing Naturalized-citizens and not citizen immigrants. A quantitative analysis was used based on immigrants\u27 sex, gender, level of poverty, education attainment, race, and employment status. The results of this analysis provide evidence that after controlling for all these variables, there is a strong and statistically significant relationship between citizenship status and health insurance coverage. Namely, our model estimates an average difference of 12.9% in the probability of having health coverage for naturalized citizens and non-citizens. Moreover, disaggregating the probabilities with respect to Age and citizenship status, we find that the impact of citizenship status diminishes as people get older, but remains significant

On the determinants of life insurance development in Sub-Saharan Africa: the role of the institutions quality in the effect of economic development

Etudes & documentsThis paper analyzes the determinants of life insurance development on a panel of 20 countries in sub-Saharan Africa over the period 1996-2011. It also highlights the role of the institutions quality on the effect of economic development on the life insurance. Controlling for the presence of a possible endogeneity bias using the instrumental variable technique, we find evidence that increased of per capita income leads to an increase in life insurance premiums. We show that the life insurance is a luxury good in SSA. The demographic variables such as life expectancy and the young dependency ratio influence negatively the life insurance development while the old dependency ratio has a positive effect. We also find that the protection of property rights and the government stability are positively associated to life insurance. The results are robust to the introduction of more variables. Furthermore, the marginal impact of the income per capita on the life insurance varies according to the quality of the legal and political environment. Finally, the marginal effect of the economic development on life insurance is less for french legal system countries compared to non-french legal system countries