Voices of exile in contemporary Canadian francophone literature / F. Elizabeth Dahab.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dahab, Elizabeth.

Series:

After the empire

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French-Canadian literature--Arab authors--History and criticism.

French-Canadian literature.

French-Canadian literature--Québec (Province)--History and criticism.

Immigrants' writings, French-Canadian--Québec (Province)--History and criticism.

Immigrants' writings, French-Canadian.

Exiles in literature.

Arabs in literature.

Group identity in literature.

Arabs--Canada--Ethnic identity.

Arabs.

Ethnicity.

Authors, Arab.

Canada.

Physical Description:

xv, 229 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2009]

Summary:

Over the past four decades, the largest French-speaking state in North America, Qub̌ec, 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 Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, and the Maghreb, who produced a trilingual literature that reflects the diversity of their culture backgrounds.

By casting a critical eye on the works of Saad Elkhadem, Naim Kattan, Abla Farhoud, Wajdi Mouawad, and Hďi Bouraoui, F. Elizabeth Dahab explores themes, styles, and structures that characterize the oeuvre of those authors. Dahab demonstrates that their mode is exile, and in so doing, she reveals the ways in which these writers seek to shape their art, using a host of innovative techniques that engage their renewed culture industry.

Contents:

1 Introduction: The Odyssey of Qub̌čois/Canadian-Arabic Writers and Their Writing 1

2 Deprivation and Despair in Saad Elkhadem's Wings of Lead, The Plague, Trilogy of the Flying Egyptian, and One Night in Cairo 45

3 From Baghdad to Montreal via Paris: Nan̐ Kattan and His Multiple Reality 67

4 Of Suffocated Minds and Tortured Hearts: The Universe of Abla Farhoud 97

5 Of Broken Promises and Mended Lives: The War-Ravaged World of Wajdi Mouawad 135

6 "Fragments and Enigmas": Hďi Bouraoui and La Femme d'entre les lignes 173.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739118788

0739118781

9780739138380

0739138383

OCLC:

317361731