Voices of exile in contemporary Canadian francophone literature

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

Over the last four decades, the largest French-speaking state in North America, QuZbec, 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 exami...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dahab, Elizabeth
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, c2009.
Series:After the empire.
Subjects:
French-Canadian literature > Arab authors > History and criticism.
French-Canadian literature > Québec (Province) > History and criticism.
Immigrants' writings, French-Canadian > Québec (Province) > History and criticism.
Exiles in literature.
Arabs in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Arabs > Canada > Ethnic identity.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
Arabs > Ethnic identity
Arabs in literature
Exiles in literature
French-Canadian literature
Group identity in literature
Immigrants' writings, French-Canadian
Canada
Québec
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Voices of Exile in Contemporary Canadian Francophone Literature; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 01: Introduction: The Odyssey of Québécois/Canadian-Arabic Writers and Their Writing; Chapter 02: Deprivation and Despair in Saad Elkhadem's Wings of Lead, The Plague, Trilogy of the Flying Egyptian, and One Night in Cairo; Chapter 03: From Baghdad to Montréal via Paris: Naïm Kattan and His Multiple Reality; Chapter 04: Of Suffocated Minds and Tortured Hearts: The Universe of Abla Farhoud; Chapter 05: Of Broken Promises and Mended Lives: The War-Ravaged World of Wajdi Mouawad.

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