European Literary Immigration Into the French Language

European Literary Immigration Into the French Language
Author: Tijana Miletić
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9042024003

The critical, emotional and intellectual change which every immigrant is obliged to endure and confront is experienced with singular intensity by immigrant writers who have also adopted another language for their literary expression. Concentrating on European authors of the second half of the twentieth century who have chosen French as a language for their literary expression, and in particular the novels by Romain Gary, Agota Kristof, Milan Kundera and Jorge Semprun, with reference to many others, European Literary Immigration into the French Language explores some of the common elements in these works of fiction, which despite the varied personal circumstances and literary aesthetics of the authors, follow a similar path in the building of a literary identity and legitimacy in the new language. The choice of the French language is inextricably linked with the subsequent literary choices of these writers. This study charts a new territory within Francophone and European literary studies in treating the European immigrants as a separate group, and in applying linguistic, sociological and psychoanalytical ideas in the analysis of the works of fiction, and thus represents a relevant contribution to the understanding of European cultural identity. This volume is relevant to French and European literature scholars, and anyone with interest in immigration, European identity or second language adoption.

The Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France

The Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France
Author: Oana Sabo
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2018-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1496204948

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Production -- 2. Reception -- 3. Consecration -- 4. Canonization -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About Oana Sabo

The Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France

The Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France
Author: Oana Sabo
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2018-04-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1496205626

The Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France explains the causes of twenty-first-century global migrations and their impact on French literature and the French literary establishment. A marginal genre in 1980s France, since the turn of the century “migrant literature” has become central to criticism and publishing. Oana Sabo addresses previously unanswered questions about the proliferation of contemporary migrant texts and their shifting themes and forms, mechanisms of literary legitimation, and notions of critical and commercial achievement. Through close readings of novels (by Mathias Énard, Milan Kundera, Dany Laferrière, Henri Lopès, Andreï Makine, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Alice Zeniter, and others) and sociological analyses of their consecrating authorities (including the Prix littéraire de la Porte Dorée, the Académie française, publishing houses, and online reviewers), Sabo argues that these texts are best understood as cultural commodities that mediate between literary and economic forms of value, academic and mass readerships, and national and global literary markets. By examining the latest literary texts and cultural agents not yet subjected to sufficient critical study, Sabo contributes to contemporary literature, cultural history, migration studies, and literary sociology.

The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture

The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture
Author: Corina Stan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 660
Release: 2023-11-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3031307844

The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture engages with migration to, within, and from Europe, foregrounding migration through the lenses of historical migratory movement and flows associated with colonialism and postcolonialism. With essays on literature, film, drama, graphic novels, and more, the book addresses migration and media, hostile environments, migration and language, migration and literary experiment, migration as palimpsest, and figurations of the migrant. Each section is introduced by one of the handbook’s contributing editors and interviews with writers and film directors are integrated throughout the volume. The essays collected in the volume move beyond the discourse of the “refugee crisis” to trace the historical roots of the current migration situation through colonialism and decolonization.

The Many Voices of Europe

The Many Voices of Europe
Author: Gisela Brinker-Gabler
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2020-01-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110645785

This volume explores the rich, evolving body of contemporary cultural practices that reflect on a European project of diversity, new dynamics between and across cultures in Europe, and its interactions with the world. There have been calls across Europe for both traditional national identities and new forms of identity and community, assertions of regionalized identity and declarations of multiculturalism and multilingualism. These essays respond to this critical moment by analyzing the literature of migration as a (re)writing of European subjects. They ask fundamental questions from a variety of theoretical and critical standpoints: How do migrants write new identities into and against old national (meta)narratives? How do they interrogate constructions of identity? What kinds of literary experiments are emerging in this unstable context, e.g. in the graphic novel and avant-garde film?This collection makes a unique contribution to contemporary European literary studies by taking an interdisciplinary, transnational and comparative perspective, thereby addressing readers from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and stimulating new research on the ambitious writing and thinking taking place across the borders of Europe today.

Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writers since 1945

Immigrant and Ethnic-Minority Writers since 1945
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 554
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004363246

This study analyses how immigrant and ethnic-minority writers have challenged the understanding of certain national literatures and have markedly changed them. In other national contexts, ideologies and institutions have contained the challenge these writers pose to national literatures. Case studies of the emergence and recognition of immigrant and ethnic-minority writing come from fourteen national contexts. These include classical immigration countries, such as Canada and the United States, countries where immigration accelerated and entered public debate after World War II, such as the United Kingdom, France and Germany, as well as countries rarely discussed in this context, such as Brazil and Japan. Finally, this study uses these individual analyses to discuss this writing as an international phenomenon. Sandra R.G. Almeida, Maria Zilda F. Cury, Sarah De Mul, Sneja Gunew, Dave Gunning, Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, Martina Kamm, Liesbeth Minnaard, Maria Oikonomou, Wenche Ommundsen, Marie Orton, Laura Reeck, Daniel Rothenbühler, Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, Wiebke Sievers, Bettina Spoerri, Christl Verduyn, Sandra Vlasta.

Migration and Literature in Contemporary Europe

Migration and Literature in Contemporary Europe
Author: Mirjam Gebauer
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: Emigration and immigration in literature
ISBN: 9783899752045

Migration literature : Europe in transition / Mirjam Gabauer & Pia Schwarz Lausten -- Unfinished modernism : European destinations of transnational writing / Azade Seyhan -- Elsewhere : tracing the evidence / Charles Lock -- Four theses on migration and literature / Søren Frank -- Nostalgia : the longing for sameness / Jørn Boisen -- The voice of the 'real migrant' : contemporary migration literature in Sweden / Wolfgang Behschnitt -- Living in a language / Pia Schwarz Lausten -- Network and movement : two tropes in recent German migration literature and film / Mirjam Gebauer -- After the 'cartoons' : the rise of a new Danish migration literature? / Moritz Schramm -- Migrant writing as a strategy of legacy hunting in the French literary field / Christina Horvath -- Migration el parole littéraire déplacée, entre France et Maghreb / Charles Bonn -- Migrants, or living the postcolonial? : Greenlandic authors in transnational space / Kirsten Thisted -- 'Missioni' : double identity and plurilingualism in the works of three female migrant writers in Italy / Daniele Comberiati -- The theme of labor in contemporary Volga German literature / Anna Rodzevich -- Migrant literature in Italy and Europe : patterns compared / Nora Moll -- 'Kanak Sprak' and Union Suspecte : scandals around hybrid and multilingual literature in Germany and Belgium / Thomas Ernst -- 'Fed with the same food' : Dutch authors Hafid Bouazza and Abdelkader Benali act on Shakespeare / Henriette Louwerse -- Stereotypes of China and Europe in the writings of Chinese migrant writers in Germany and France / Heidrun Hörner -- Danish identity and the migrant hero's hybridising gaze in Jamal Mahjoub's The carrier / Sten Pultz Moslund -- 'Back to London' : subject and city in Bernardine Evaristo's Lara / Marie Lauritzen -- Among and between : alterity in Emine Sevgi Özdamar's Die Brücke vom Goldenen Horn / Maria Mayr -- Irony, hybridity and agency in Meera Syal's Anita and me / Katja Lehnert -- Moving Moroccan memories : Hafid Bouazza's critical re-vision of De voeten van Abdullah / Liesbeth Minnaard.

The Camp of the Saints - 2017

The Camp of the Saints - 2017
Author: Jean Raspail
Publisher:
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2017-05-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781547020393

The Camp of the Saints (Le Camp des Saints) is a 1973 French novel by author and explorer Jean Raspail. The novel depicts a setting wherein Third World mass immigration to France and the West leads to the destruction of Western civilization. A new (2017) introduction by Leonard Payne provides a cultural analysis.