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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 Enard, Milan Kundera, Dany Laferriere, Henri Lopes, Andrei Makine, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Alice Zeniter, and others) and sociological analyses of their consecrating authorities (including the Prix litteraire de la Porte Doree, the Academie francaise, 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.

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This study will rock the boat and become a source of reference. . . . It constitutes a major contribution to the field of francophone studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and global studies. It will serve as a springboard for scholars and teachers of the francophone field as they make their selections of texts and authors. It is original, well-researched, and timely. -Martine Natat Antle, McCaughey Chair of French Studies at the University of Sydney -- Martine Natat Antle Drawing on a rich corpus of translingual and migrant writing, Oana Sabo provides a compelling analysis of how recent literature in French has addressed questions of contemporary mobility. She focuses on editorial practices, reception, and forms of literary consecration in order to investigate the emergence of a remarkable body of writing that the terms `Francophone' and `postcolonial' can no longer fully contain. This is a subtle and searching study that will prove invaluable for scholars and students alike. -Charles Forsdick, James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool -- Charles Forsdick An elegant, rigorous, intellectually invigorating examination of migrant literature, a genre that has worked its way from the margins to the center of cultural debate in recent years. Sabo asks crucial questions about art, society, and nation. -Warren Motte, College Professor of Distinction at the University of Colorado Boulder and author of Mirror Gazing -- Warren Motte The Migrant Canon is well researched and written in a style that is genuinely engaging. This study of the interplay of national, global, and literary issues should interest all scholars of literature in French. -D. L. Boudreau, CHOICE -- D. L. Boudreau * CHOICE *

This study will rock the boat and become a source of reference. . . . It constitutes a major contribution to the field of francophone studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and global studies. It will serve as a springboard for scholars and teachers of the francophone field as they make their selections of texts and authors. It is original, well-researched, and timely. --Martine Natat Antle, McCaughey Chair in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Sydney--Martine Natat Antle (09/19/2017) Drawing on a rich corpus of translingual and migrant writing, Oana Sabo provides a compelling analysis of how recent literature in French has addressed questions of contemporary mobility. She focuses on editorial practices, reception, and forms of literary consecration in order to investigate the emergence of a remarkable body of writing that the terms 'Francophone' and 'postcolonial' can no longer fully contain. This is a subtle and searching study that will prove invaluable for scholars and students alike. --Charles Forsdick, James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool --Charles Forsdick (09/19/2017) An elegant, rigorous, intellectually invigorating examination of migrant literature, a genre that has worked its way from the margins to the center of cultural debate in recent years. Sabo asks crucial questions about art, society, and nation. --Warren Motte, College Professor of Distinction at the University of Colorado Boulder and author of Mirror Gazing --Warren Motte (09/19/2017)

This study will rock the boat and become a source of reference. . . . It constitutes a major contribution to the field of francophone studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and global studies. It will serve as a springboard for scholars and teachers of the francophone field as they make their selections of texts and authors. It is original, well-researched, and timely. -Martine Natat Antle, McCaughey Chair in the Department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Sydney -- Martine Natat Antle Drawing on a rich corpus of translingual and migrant writing, Oana Sabo provides a compelling analysis of how recent literature in French has addressed questions of contemporary mobility. She focuses on editorial practices, reception, and forms of literary consecration in order to investigate the emergence of a remarkable body of writing that the terms `Francophone' and `postcolonial' can no longer fully contain. This is a subtle and searching study that will prove invaluable for scholars and students alike. -Charles Forsdick, James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool -- Charles Forsdick An elegant, rigorous, intellectually invigorating examination of migrant literature, a genre that has worked its way from the margins to the center of cultural debate in recent years. Sabo asks crucial questions about art, society, and nation. -Warren Motte, College Professor of Distinction at the University of Colorado Boulder and author of Mirror Gazing -- Warren Motte

“An elegant, rigorous, intellectually invigorating examination of migrant literature, a genre that has worked its way from the margins to the center of cultural debate in recent years. Sabo asks crucial questions about art, society, and nation.”—Warren Motte, College Professor of Distinction at the University of Colorado Boulder and author of Mirror Gazing “Drawing on a rich corpus of translingual and migrant writing, Oana Sabo provides a compelling analysis of how recent literature in French has addressed questions of contemporary mobility. She focuses on editorial practices, reception, and forms of literary consecration in order to investigate the emergence of a remarkable body of writing that the terms `Francophone’ and `postcolonial’ can no longer fully contain. This is a subtle and searching study that will prove invaluable for scholars and students alike.”—Charles Forsdick, James Barrow Professor of French at the University of Liverpool “This study will rock the boat and become a source of reference. . . . It constitutes a major contribution to the field of francophone studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, and global studies. It will serve as a springboard for scholars and teachers of the francophone field as they make their selections of texts and authors. It is original, well-researched, and timely.”—Martine Natat Antle, McCaughey Chair of French Studies at the University of Sydney

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Oana Sabo is an assistant professor of French at Tulane University.  

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