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Papers by Alassane Dia

International journal of humanities, social sciences and education, Dec 31, 2022

South Asian Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020

Rats act as a reservoir for various diseases that can be transmitted to humans such as Murine typ... more Rats act as a reservoir for various diseases that can be transmitted to humans such as Murine typhus, PES, helminthiasis, and leptospirosis. Therefore, the presence of these mice plays an important role in the epidemiology of disease transmission, because in addition to being a host mouse also acts as a reservoir for several diseases. The zoonotic disease originating from mice is caused by the presence of ectoparasites and endoparasites that live in mice. This study aims to determine the relationship between the presence of waste with ectoparasites and endoparasites in mice. This research is a quantitative study with a cross-sectional design. Data obtained by observing the type of rat, identification of ectoparasites and endoparasites, calculation of success traps, univariate analysis using Chi-square test to determine the relationship between the presence of waste with ectoparasites and endoparasites in mice. The results showed that of the 37 rats caught, 78% were Rattus norvegicus, 15% Suncus murinus, and 7% Mus musculus. This study found 68% of rats infected with Xenopsylla cheopis ectoparasite type and 81% infected with endoparasites type from subclass nematode and Cestoda which are zoonotic which can increase the risk of infection in humans. From the test results, it was found that there is a relationship between the presence of waste with endoparasites (nematode and Cestoda) and there is no relationship between the presence of waste with ectoparasites in mice. Therefore, it is necessary to control the mouse regularly.

International Journal of English Language and Translation Studies, 2014

Hybridity has been one of the most recurrent themes of the African fiction during and after the c... more Hybridity has been one of the most recurrent themes of the African fiction during and after the colonial period. It is one of the complex issues of postcolonial Africa as it was difficult for many Négritude writers, such as Léopold Sédar Senghor, Aimé Césaire, and Frantz Fanon, to find a common ground on what colonization bequeathed to Africa. Hence, Senghor (1977) came up with the oxymoron of “colonization as a necessary evil”. However, to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of colonization to Africans, in terms of impact, one should go further than expected to approve or dismantle Senghor’s position. The issues of cultural hybridity and identity crisis are still topical in African literature. Also, in the context of globalization, it is relevant to study the post-independence situation of African societies as represented by their early prominent and visionary writers such as Chinua Achebe from Nigeria and Cheikh Hamidou Kane from Senegal. Therefore, hybridity becomes a concern, through which writers address the dilemma of the African. They portray the intellectual who is entrapped in two different cultures and becomes alienated. The corpus of this article showcases this phenomenon through the characters of Obi Okonkwo in No Longer at Ease (1960) and Samba Diallo in Ambiguous Adventure (1962). Through a critical analysis and a post-colonial perspective, the article focuses on identity crisis, alongside the contentious debate over cultural diversity versus cultural difference, which is highly reflected in the novels investigated in the paper.

Research Article This article examines the narrative structure and the "textual architecture" of ... more Research Article This article examines the narrative structure and the "textual architecture" of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, an African American novel. According to Henry Louis Gates Jr. this masterpiece defines Hurston as a pioneer of a literary tradition aesthetically grounded on the interface of orality and literacy. The analysis is based on a narratological and stylistic approach that addresses the fabric of Hurston"s novel often called "tale-novel". The study brings to the conclusion that Their Eyes Were Watching God builds upon particular and innovative narrative strategies through the eyes of a competent and implied reader. Hurston presented the novel to the public of its time with innovative narrative strategies, and then pioneered a new African American literary tradition.

This paper studies So Long a Letter – an African novel of the 1980s by a Senegalese female writer... more This paper studies So Long a Letter – an African novel of the 1980s by a Senegalese female writer-to analyze the issue of gender through the dialectic of tradition and modernity. So Long a Letter is written by Mariama Bâ and it is a semi-autobiographical novel that deals with the issues of gender and culture in general. Mariama Bâ " s novel captures the way modern societies embrace western culture with regard to their traditional values, which results in a domination and marginalization of women. The paper analyzes the clash of cultures generated in the form of a dialectic of modernity and tradition in Senegalese society. From a critical and reader-oriented approach, it shows how a " counter discourse " occurs strikingly in the course of development of feminist ideology in the novel-through female characterization. The topic is developed in relation to multiculturalism as theorized by thinkers like Robin Cohen, Ronald Takaki, Homi K. Bhabha and Manfred B. Steger who have significantly analyzed the notion of globalization and culture. The approach used alongside different cultural theories provides a broad picture of the issue to be observed inside and outside the reality.

Roland Barthes declared the author dead. Such a position depends arguably on the perspective that... more Roland Barthes declared the author dead. Such a position depends arguably on the perspective that a reader wants to give to any piece of literature. Barthes’s declaration is basically to suggest a reader-oriented approach of a piece of literature or more relevantly to only focus on the text as an object. However, what may be paradoxical in such a declaration is that even once dead, authors declare themselves alive as their works make them speak. This is why Barthes’ literary point of view is oftentimes evoked and discussed in literary analyses. However, regardless of the perspective or context that might inspire Barthes to defend this position, readers too beyond their interpretations and expectations, still need some information about authors as producers of the text under their appreciation. Interviews with authors can provide relevant additional information even though the text as object of discussion is relative in terms of reception. Equally important, the text as object is subject to various interpretations because it not only contains blanks which hint the non-said but it is also exposed to different literary approaches which build upon the choice of the school that readers make optionally.
This interview can fill in those blanks and is a significant contribution to the topical debate on the African literary tradition as Michel Tinguiri comes up with a confirmation of the perpetuation of the African literary tradition which owes much to its oral tradition. As declared in the foreword by the prominent scholar, Professor Christopher Wise, Michel Tinguiri’s The Tribulations of a Sahelian Traveler is Burkina Faso’s first novel in English. Readers will find in this interview answers of some questions that they might love to ask the author.

Abstract: This article revisits the African novel by focusing on the writings of Chinua Achebe a... more Abstract:
This article revisits the African novel by focusing on the writings of Chinua Achebe as a case study. This famous Nigerian writer who passed on in late March, 2013 is regarded as one of the pioneers of African literature who has left the younger generation of writers with particular literary aesthetics of which he is the founding father. He coined and developed the concept of “Africanisation” of the novel and the English language as well. The most telling appraisal of his arts is Phanuel Egejuru’s calling his style “Achebeism”. This article is written through a stylistics approach and it addresses the use of language with evocations of some controversies and criticisms over the language of the African novel. It brings to conclusions that Achebe has significantly contributed to the promotion anddevelopment of African literature as he belongs to the first generation
of writers whose early literary productions have been harshly
criticised, but have regained consideration over the years. Achebe’s literary adventure is acclaimed as a revalorisation of African folkloreand the redefinition of the literariness of African arts.

V Vo ol lu um me e: : 2 2, , I Is ss su ue e: : 1 1 [ [J Ja an nu ua ar ry y--M Ma ar rc ch h, , ... more V Vo ol lu um me e: : 2 2, , I Is ss su ue e: : 1 1 [ [J Ja an nu ua ar ry y--M Ma ar rc ch h, , 2 20 01 14 4] ] E Ed di it to or r--i in n--C Ch hi ie ef f

Résumé: Cet article est une contribution aux travaux menés sur les origines et l'évolution des l... more Résumé:
Cet article est une contribution aux travaux menés sur les origines et l'évolution des littératures africaine et afro-américaine. Il examine en grande partie le débat contentieux sur les traditions et canons littéraires que l'on croit apparemment être enracinés et développés dans les cultures et littératures occidentales. En conséquence, certains chercheurs défendent que les traditions littéraires africaines et afro-américaines sont inhérentes à celles de l’Occident car elles ont influencé leurs écrivains.
À partir d'une approche critique et comparative, cet article transcende lesdites controverses. Il mène à des conclusions selon lesquelles les littératures africaines et afro-américaines ont leurs propres traditions quelle que soit l'influence que les traditions occidentales ont eue sur elles. Ainsi, la question de genre romanesque soulevée sur la forme des romans africains et africain-américains qui, ne semble pas obéir aux standards européens, relève d’un héritage culturel et d’une
hégémonie culturelle politique qui se transforment en dépendance.
Mots clés: tradition littéraire- roman africain – roman africain-américain- héritageinfluence- dépendance

Books by Alassane Dia

The Voice of the Tradition in the African Novel: Chinua Achebe's Artistic Use of Orature in Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah, 2015

ABOUT THE BOOK This book contributes to the growth of African Literature, particularly to the und... more ABOUT THE BOOK This book contributes to the growth of African Literature, particularly to the understanding of the writings of Chinua Achebe as an icon and one of the pioneers and prominent writers in African literature. It is a scholarly work that highlights lots of topical issues over the notion of genre in terms of literary theory and criticism of the African novel. Hence, it shows broadly how Achebe uses his culture or more relevantly his oral tradition to build a literary genre that is specific to him and to Africa in general. By evoking other critics and writers, this work focuses basically on Chinua Achebe's first and most famous novel, Things Fall Apart (1958) and his latest one, Anthills of the Savannah (1987). Handled through a sober style, a stylistic approach and from a postcolonial perspective , it offers a broad reflection on how the African writer uses the oral tradition to rehabilitate history and to let the oral culture survive within the written one by means of the novel as an archaeological instrument that makes people hear the voice of African oral tradition in the novel with innovative strategies and methods of putting things together. In so-doing, this work studies the interconnectedness of orality and literacy and it demonstrates the way Achebe has artistically combined different traditions-one that is supposed to be borrowed from the West and another that is rooted in his own cultural environment-which he craftily blends to produce a particular "africanized genre" as he coins and develops the concept. In reading this work, any researcher will easily find its scholarly merit in the way it has been devoted to less developed phenomena (folklore/oral aesthetics) and controversies (colonial discourse versus the postcolonial one) in the African novel to draw attention to new trends, perspectives and give way to new stylistic, critical and literary approaches of the African novel. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mr. Alassane Abdoulaye Dia is a young Senegalese researcher born in DONAYE (Dpt Podor) a relatively big village in the Northern region of Senegal. He found interest in African literature particularly in the writings of Chinua Achebe earlier in his university career, hence, the strong motivation to specialize in this prominent African writer's works. He holds two

International journal of humanities, social sciences and education, Dec 31, 2022

South Asian Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020

Rats act as a reservoir for various diseases that can be transmitted to humans such as Murine typ... more Rats act as a reservoir for various diseases that can be transmitted to humans such as Murine typhus, PES, helminthiasis, and leptospirosis. Therefore, the presence of these mice plays an important role in the epidemiology of disease transmission, because in addition to being a host mouse also acts as a reservoir for several diseases. The zoonotic disease originating from mice is caused by the presence of ectoparasites and endoparasites that live in mice. This study aims to determine the relationship between the presence of waste with ectoparasites and endoparasites in mice. This research is a quantitative study with a cross-sectional design. Data obtained by observing the type of rat, identification of ectoparasites and endoparasites, calculation of success traps, univariate analysis using Chi-square test to determine the relationship between the presence of waste with ectoparasites and endoparasites in mice. The results showed that of the 37 rats caught, 78% were Rattus norvegicus, 15% Suncus murinus, and 7% Mus musculus. This study found 68% of rats infected with Xenopsylla cheopis ectoparasite type and 81% infected with endoparasites type from subclass nematode and Cestoda which are zoonotic which can increase the risk of infection in humans. From the test results, it was found that there is a relationship between the presence of waste with endoparasites (nematode and Cestoda) and there is no relationship between the presence of waste with ectoparasites in mice. Therefore, it is necessary to control the mouse regularly.

International Journal of English Language and Translation Studies, 2014

Hybridity has been one of the most recurrent themes of the African fiction during and after the c... more Hybridity has been one of the most recurrent themes of the African fiction during and after the colonial period. It is one of the complex issues of postcolonial Africa as it was difficult for many Négritude writers, such as Léopold Sédar Senghor, Aimé Césaire, and Frantz Fanon, to find a common ground on what colonization bequeathed to Africa. Hence, Senghor (1977) came up with the oxymoron of “colonization as a necessary evil”. However, to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of colonization to Africans, in terms of impact, one should go further than expected to approve or dismantle Senghor’s position. The issues of cultural hybridity and identity crisis are still topical in African literature. Also, in the context of globalization, it is relevant to study the post-independence situation of African societies as represented by their early prominent and visionary writers such as Chinua Achebe from Nigeria and Cheikh Hamidou Kane from Senegal. Therefore, hybridity becomes a concern, through which writers address the dilemma of the African. They portray the intellectual who is entrapped in two different cultures and becomes alienated. The corpus of this article showcases this phenomenon through the characters of Obi Okonkwo in No Longer at Ease (1960) and Samba Diallo in Ambiguous Adventure (1962). Through a critical analysis and a post-colonial perspective, the article focuses on identity crisis, alongside the contentious debate over cultural diversity versus cultural difference, which is highly reflected in the novels investigated in the paper.

Research Article This article examines the narrative structure and the "textual architecture" of ... more Research Article This article examines the narrative structure and the "textual architecture" of Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God, an African American novel. According to Henry Louis Gates Jr. this masterpiece defines Hurston as a pioneer of a literary tradition aesthetically grounded on the interface of orality and literacy. The analysis is based on a narratological and stylistic approach that addresses the fabric of Hurston"s novel often called "tale-novel". The study brings to the conclusion that Their Eyes Were Watching God builds upon particular and innovative narrative strategies through the eyes of a competent and implied reader. Hurston presented the novel to the public of its time with innovative narrative strategies, and then pioneered a new African American literary tradition.

This paper studies So Long a Letter – an African novel of the 1980s by a Senegalese female writer... more This paper studies So Long a Letter – an African novel of the 1980s by a Senegalese female writer-to analyze the issue of gender through the dialectic of tradition and modernity. So Long a Letter is written by Mariama Bâ and it is a semi-autobiographical novel that deals with the issues of gender and culture in general. Mariama Bâ " s novel captures the way modern societies embrace western culture with regard to their traditional values, which results in a domination and marginalization of women. The paper analyzes the clash of cultures generated in the form of a dialectic of modernity and tradition in Senegalese society. From a critical and reader-oriented approach, it shows how a " counter discourse " occurs strikingly in the course of development of feminist ideology in the novel-through female characterization. The topic is developed in relation to multiculturalism as theorized by thinkers like Robin Cohen, Ronald Takaki, Homi K. Bhabha and Manfred B. Steger who have significantly analyzed the notion of globalization and culture. The approach used alongside different cultural theories provides a broad picture of the issue to be observed inside and outside the reality.

Roland Barthes declared the author dead. Such a position depends arguably on the perspective that... more Roland Barthes declared the author dead. Such a position depends arguably on the perspective that a reader wants to give to any piece of literature. Barthes’s declaration is basically to suggest a reader-oriented approach of a piece of literature or more relevantly to only focus on the text as an object. However, what may be paradoxical in such a declaration is that even once dead, authors declare themselves alive as their works make them speak. This is why Barthes’ literary point of view is oftentimes evoked and discussed in literary analyses. However, regardless of the perspective or context that might inspire Barthes to defend this position, readers too beyond their interpretations and expectations, still need some information about authors as producers of the text under their appreciation. Interviews with authors can provide relevant additional information even though the text as object of discussion is relative in terms of reception. Equally important, the text as object is subject to various interpretations because it not only contains blanks which hint the non-said but it is also exposed to different literary approaches which build upon the choice of the school that readers make optionally.
This interview can fill in those blanks and is a significant contribution to the topical debate on the African literary tradition as Michel Tinguiri comes up with a confirmation of the perpetuation of the African literary tradition which owes much to its oral tradition. As declared in the foreword by the prominent scholar, Professor Christopher Wise, Michel Tinguiri’s The Tribulations of a Sahelian Traveler is Burkina Faso’s first novel in English. Readers will find in this interview answers of some questions that they might love to ask the author.

Abstract: This article revisits the African novel by focusing on the writings of Chinua Achebe a... more Abstract:
This article revisits the African novel by focusing on the writings of Chinua Achebe as a case study. This famous Nigerian writer who passed on in late March, 2013 is regarded as one of the pioneers of African literature who has left the younger generation of writers with particular literary aesthetics of which he is the founding father. He coined and developed the concept of “Africanisation” of the novel and the English language as well. The most telling appraisal of his arts is Phanuel Egejuru’s calling his style “Achebeism”. This article is written through a stylistics approach and it addresses the use of language with evocations of some controversies and criticisms over the language of the African novel. It brings to conclusions that Achebe has significantly contributed to the promotion anddevelopment of African literature as he belongs to the first generation
of writers whose early literary productions have been harshly
criticised, but have regained consideration over the years. Achebe’s literary adventure is acclaimed as a revalorisation of African folkloreand the redefinition of the literariness of African arts.

V Vo ol lu um me e: : 2 2, , I Is ss su ue e: : 1 1 [ [J Ja an nu ua ar ry y--M Ma ar rc ch h, , ... more V Vo ol lu um me e: : 2 2, , I Is ss su ue e: : 1 1 [ [J Ja an nu ua ar ry y--M Ma ar rc ch h, , 2 20 01 14 4] ] E Ed di it to or r--i in n--C Ch hi ie ef f

Résumé: Cet article est une contribution aux travaux menés sur les origines et l'évolution des l... more Résumé:
Cet article est une contribution aux travaux menés sur les origines et l'évolution des littératures africaine et afro-américaine. Il examine en grande partie le débat contentieux sur les traditions et canons littéraires que l'on croit apparemment être enracinés et développés dans les cultures et littératures occidentales. En conséquence, certains chercheurs défendent que les traditions littéraires africaines et afro-américaines sont inhérentes à celles de l’Occident car elles ont influencé leurs écrivains.
À partir d'une approche critique et comparative, cet article transcende lesdites controverses. Il mène à des conclusions selon lesquelles les littératures africaines et afro-américaines ont leurs propres traditions quelle que soit l'influence que les traditions occidentales ont eue sur elles. Ainsi, la question de genre romanesque soulevée sur la forme des romans africains et africain-américains qui, ne semble pas obéir aux standards européens, relève d’un héritage culturel et d’une
hégémonie culturelle politique qui se transforment en dépendance.
Mots clés: tradition littéraire- roman africain – roman africain-américain- héritageinfluence- dépendance

The Voice of the Tradition in the African Novel: Chinua Achebe's Artistic Use of Orature in Things Fall Apart and Anthills of the Savannah, 2015

ABOUT THE BOOK This book contributes to the growth of African Literature, particularly to the und... more ABOUT THE BOOK This book contributes to the growth of African Literature, particularly to the understanding of the writings of Chinua Achebe as an icon and one of the pioneers and prominent writers in African literature. It is a scholarly work that highlights lots of topical issues over the notion of genre in terms of literary theory and criticism of the African novel. Hence, it shows broadly how Achebe uses his culture or more relevantly his oral tradition to build a literary genre that is specific to him and to Africa in general. By evoking other critics and writers, this work focuses basically on Chinua Achebe's first and most famous novel, Things Fall Apart (1958) and his latest one, Anthills of the Savannah (1987). Handled through a sober style, a stylistic approach and from a postcolonial perspective , it offers a broad reflection on how the African writer uses the oral tradition to rehabilitate history and to let the oral culture survive within the written one by means of the novel as an archaeological instrument that makes people hear the voice of African oral tradition in the novel with innovative strategies and methods of putting things together. In so-doing, this work studies the interconnectedness of orality and literacy and it demonstrates the way Achebe has artistically combined different traditions-one that is supposed to be borrowed from the West and another that is rooted in his own cultural environment-which he craftily blends to produce a particular "africanized genre" as he coins and develops the concept. In reading this work, any researcher will easily find its scholarly merit in the way it has been devoted to less developed phenomena (folklore/oral aesthetics) and controversies (colonial discourse versus the postcolonial one) in the African novel to draw attention to new trends, perspectives and give way to new stylistic, critical and literary approaches of the African novel. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Mr. Alassane Abdoulaye Dia is a young Senegalese researcher born in DONAYE (Dpt Podor) a relatively big village in the Northern region of Senegal. He found interest in African literature particularly in the writings of Chinua Achebe earlier in his university career, hence, the strong motivation to specialize in this prominent African writer's works. He holds two