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Autoportrait D’Un Auteur En Exil : Une Magie Ordinaire De Kossi Efoui, Morgan Faulkner
Autoportrait D’Un Auteur En Exil : Une Magie Ordinaire De Kossi Efoui, Morgan Faulkner
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Kossi Efoui’s sixth novel, Une magie ordinaire, constitutes his intellectual autobiography in that it follows the reconstruction of an “intellectual development” (Paul Ricoeur, 1995) by retracing his own trajectory as a writer in exile, born and raised in a dictatorship, forced to live the last days of his mother’s life away from her. This study explores the role played by private life, history, and literature in the reconstruction of the writer’s trajectory that unfolds in this novel. How do these three themes, and the discourses that accompany them, interact with each other to build the self portrait of an …
La Poésie Comme Terre D'Asile Dans L'Œuvre De Tahar Bekri, Sonia Lee
La Poésie Comme Terre D'Asile Dans L'Œuvre De Tahar Bekri, Sonia Lee
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
In this essay, I propose to examine how in Tahar Bekri's poetry, the theme of exile is gradually negated through the poetic universe of the poet, thus acting as a replacement for the loss of the motherland.
Bessombè: Entre Terroir Et Exil, Nathalie Etoke
Bessombè: Entre Terroir Et Exil, Nathalie Etoke
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
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La Nouvelle En Haïti, Correspondance Du Nouveau Monde: Les Recueils De Yanick Lahens Et De Pascale Blanchard-Glass, Kathleen Gyssels
La Nouvelle En Haïti, Correspondance Du Nouveau Monde: Les Recueils De Yanick Lahens Et De Pascale Blanchard-Glass, Kathleen Gyssels
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
The short story is very much alive in Haitian literature, most especially among women writers. As a favorite genre for describing insecurity on the sociocultural, political and identity level, it reflects the difficult circumstances in which short story writers labor and the obstacles that they encounter in finding a publisher, an audience, in a word, a place in the disporic field of Haitian literature. In particular, the short story genre allows for a formal, stylistic and structural hybridity that suits the writers' desire to experiment with narration even as they seek an appropriate voice.