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Colson Whitehead : Vers Une Esthétique Postraciale? Souleymane Ba Colson Whitehead : vers une esthétique postraciale? Souleymane Ba To cite this version: Souleymane Ba. Colson Whitehead : vers une esthétique postraciale?. Littératures. Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III, 2015. Français. NNT : 2015MON30077. tel-01333272 HAL Id: tel-01333272 https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01333272 Submitted on 17 Jun 2016 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Délivré par 4’"63D1@A3BF+(C4R#(4F@EI+76B814431@+a! Préparée au sein de l’école doctorale : Langues, Littératures, Cultures et Civilisations Et de l’unité de recherche : Etudes Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone Spécialité : Littérature des Pays anglophones Présentée par 7C41E5(61+9: ! ;74A76+$23B121(0+P+D1@A+C61+1AB2FB39C1+ 87AB@()3(41+S! Soutenue le 30 novembre 2015 devant le jury composé de : Mme Claudine RAYNAUD, Professeur, Université Paul-Valéry, Directrice Mme Kathie BIRAT, Professeur émérite, Université de Lorraine, Rapporteur Mme Corinne DUBOIN, Professeur, Université de la Réunion, Rapporteur Mme Monica MICHLIN, Professeur, Université Paul-Valéry, Membre du jury M. Frédéric SYLVANISE, Maître de conférences, Université de Paris 13, Membre du jury, !%)*%%**q*0 *!0)#* %2%*320%*c*07 %c*%0 %c*2 %c* 2!0* ! Thèse Pour obtenir le grade de Docteur Spécialité : Études du monde anglophone Section CNU : 11 - Langues et littératures anglaises et anglo-saxonnes Laboratoire : Études Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone Souleymane BA COLSON WHITEHEAD : VERS UNE ESTHÉTIQUE POSTRACIALE ? Thèse dirigée par Madame le Professeur Claudine RAYNAUD Soutenue le 30 novembre 2015 Membres du Jury : Claudine RAYNAUD, Professeur, Université Paul-Valéry, Directrice Kathie BIRAT, Professeur émérite, Université de Lorraine, Rapporteur Corinne DUBOIN, Professeur, Université de la Réunion, Rapporteur Monica MICHLIN, Professeur, Université Paul-Valéry, Membre du jury Frédéric SYLVANISE, Maître de Conférences, Université de Paris 13, Membre du jury !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! ! ! ! !!!!!!!!! ! ! ! ! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pour Madjiguène et Maïmouna ! 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Ses conseils pointus et lectures attentives de mes brouillons m’ont permis de produire un travail qui je l’espère est digne d’être soutenu devant un jury. Ma reconnaissance va également à Mme Birat, Mme Duboin, Mme Michlin et M. Sylvanise pour avoir accepté de faire partie de mon jury de thèse. Je porte également toute ma gratitude à ma sœur Souadou Ba qui a été d’un soutien infaillible durant mon séjour en France. Un grand merci aussi à mes relecteurs (Bérengère Merlot, Gana Ndiaye, Myriam Loukia et Cécile Roux), à mes amis qui m’ont beaucoup soutenu (Rita Chakrabarti, Malick Ndao, Miriam Bianco, Ferdous Grama, Ndèye Fatou Lame, Mamadou Lamine Diallo, Alassane Touré) et à mon laboratoire de recherche « Études Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone ». 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