Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature

Informationen zum Autor F. Elizabeth Dahab is professor of comparative literature at California State University, Long Beach Klappentext Over the last four decades, the largest French-speaking state in North America, Québec, has nested more than a dozen vibrant modes of French expression created by members of the varied cultural communities that have settled there. Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature examines the works of several first-generation Canadian authors originating from Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, and the Maghreb, who produced a trilingual literature that reflects the diversity of their cultural backgrounds. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: The Odyssey of Québécois/Canadian Arabic Writers and Writing Chapter 2: Deprivation and Despair in Saad Elkhadem's Wings of Lead, The Plague, Trilogy of the Flying Egyptian, and One Night in Cairo Chapter 3: From Baghdad to Montréal via Paris: Naim Kattan and His Multiple Reality Chapter 4: Of Suffocated Minds and Tortured Hearts: The Universe of Abla Farhoud Chapter 5: Of Broken Promises and Mended Lives: The War-Torn World of Wajdi Mouawad Chapter 6: "Fragments and Enigmas": Hédi Bouraoui and La Femme d'entre les lignes Chapter 7 Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth F. Dahab, F. Elisabeth Dahab, F. Elizabeth Dahab
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.10.2009
• EAN: 9780739118788
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-1878-8
• No. of pages: 229
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Series: After the Empire: The Francophone World & Postcolonial France; After the Empire: The Francoph; After the Empire: The Francoph; After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies