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Histoire Croisée As An Approach To Migrant Writing, Gijsbert Pols
Histoire Croisée As An Approach To Migrant Writing, Gijsbert Pols
CALL: Irish Journal for Culture, Arts, Literature and Language
Although commonly understood as a monolithic entity, scholars have successfully approached the idea of cultural identity in terms of relationship, reference and binary opposition during the last two decades. This approach has consequences for the study of migrant literature. It seems the widely shared idea of ‘cultural transfer’, which implies a linear movement between mutually independent cultural spaces, is obsolete. This article instead proposes the concept of the histoire croisée, developed by Werner and Zimmermann, as a more fruitful model. Following Werner and Zimmermann’s suggestion that any migrant situation can be seen as culturally ‘crossed’, the article discusses two Dutch …
Introduction, Gerard Connolly
Pondering Eternity In A Stifling Rural Setting: François Mauriac's Thérèse Desqueyroux And John Mcgahern's The Barracks, Eamon Maher
Journal of Franco-Irish Studies
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Idea-Making And Crises: Contradictions Between The Presentation, Argumentation And Form Of Ideas In Selected Works Of Descartes And Voltaire, Lauren Clark
Journal of Franco-Irish Studies
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