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Transcultural Migration in the Novels of Hédi Bouraoui

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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 ...
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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.
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Price: $139.00
Pages: 216
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date: 12 November 2020
ISBN: 9789004440852
Format: Hardcover
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"Transculturel Migration in the Novels of Hédi Bouraoui est une œuvre dense de 214 pages, constituée de 12 chapitres selon un ordre chronologique. Les quatre premierssont exclusivement consacrés à la trilogie: Cap Nord, Les Aléas d’une Odyssée, et Méditerranée à voile toute. Elizabeth Sabiston y analyse l’essence de la migration telle que l’imagine Hédi Bouraoui à partir de l’Odyssée d’Homère, et qu’il appelle lui-même ‘Emigressence’. Il est relativement aisé de relever les multiples prises de position d’un auteur, dès lors que l’exil, ce va-et-vient sans fin entre identité et altérité, devient matière à littérature, qu’il se nourrit de souvenirs longtemps enfouis, et qu’il se confond tout naturellement avec la vie." - Rafik Darragi, Leaders.com

« Promenade avec Elizabeth Sabiston dans les romans d’Hédi Bouraoui
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La valse endiablée des styles
pour la ronde des cultures
Tant d’autres ancrages
l’Italie à bras ouverts
et le Canada
Le narratoème explose
le conteur est magicien
Quand parle la tour
les jumelles se font pierres
que la vie éteint
Ancien monde ou Amériques
nous sommes tous voyageurs »
- Georges Chapouthier, C.R.N.S., poète. Paris, France
Elizabeth Sabiston, Ph.D. Cornell University (1969), is Professor Emerita of English and Director, Canada-Mediterranean Centre, York University, Toronto, Canada. She has published a monograph, The Muse Strikes Back, and articles on Hédi Bouraoui’s work, as well as monographs on 19th-century fiction, The Prison of Womanhood, and Women in Literature, Private Sphere to World Stage from Austen to Eliot.