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Author Dahab, Elizabeth

Title Voices of exile in contemporary Canadian francophone literature / F. Elizabeth Dahab
Published Lanham : Lexington Books, c2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 229 p.)
Series After the empire
After the empire.
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
Summary 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 examines the works of several first-generation Canadian authors originating from Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, and the Maghreb, who produced a trilingual literature that reflects the diversity of their cultural backgrounds. By casting a critical eye on the works of Saad Elkhadem, Naim Kattan, Abla Farhoud, Wajdi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-220) and index
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Subject 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
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021675414
ISBN 9780739138380
0739138383