Transcultural migration in the novels of Hedi Bouraoui : a new Ulysses / by Elizabeth Sabiston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sabiston, Elizabeth Jean, 1937- author.

Series:

Francopolyphonies ; Volume 30.

Francopolyphonies ; Volume 30

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bouraoui, Hedi Andre.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2021]

Summary:

"In Transcultural Migration in the Novels of Hédi Bouraoui: A New Ulysses, Elizabeth Sabiston analyses the dominant theme of transcultural migration, or immigration, in Hédi Bouraoui's fiction. His protagonists reflect his passion for endless travel, and are Ulysses-figures for the postmodern age. Their travels enable them to explore the "Otherness of the Other," to understand and "migrate" into them. Bouraoui's World Literature is rooted in the traversées of his characters across a number of clearly differentiated regions, which nonetheless share a common humanity. The ancient migrations of Ulysses, fuelled by violence and war, are paralleled to the modern displacements of entire cultures and even nations. Bouraoui's works bridge cultures past and present, but they also require the invention of language to convey a postmodern world in flux"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Hédi Bouraoui's Cap Nord : mythopoeia and the quest for language

Penelope liberated : the female quest in Les Aléas d'une Odyssée

Adventures of a young man : the initiation of télémanque in Méditerranée à voile toute

Sept portes pour une brûlance : mad love and poetic creation

Berber girl in Paris : illusions lost and Faisances found

La réfugié (Lotus au Pays du Lys) : a transgeneric poetic voyage

Puglia with open arms : otherness embraced

Wandering words : tracing the Ulyssean cycle in Le conteur

Les jumelles de l'oncle Sam : immigration and American women

Beyond the new novel : Faisance, Narratoème, "slice of life".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9789004441415

9004441417

OCLC:

1198989154