Overview
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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Author: Elizabeth Sabiston
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 30
Weight: 0.508kg
ISBN: 9789004440852
ISBN 10: 9004440852
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 12 November 2020
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Transculturel Migration in the Novels of Hedi Bouraoui est une oeuvre dense de 214 pages, constituee de 12 chapitres selon un ordre chronologique. Les quatre premierssont exclusivement consacres a la trilogie: Cap Nord, Les Aleas d'une Odyssee, et Mediterranee a voile toute. Elizabeth Sabiston y analyse l'essence de la migration telle que l'imagine Hedi Bouraoui a partir de l'Odyssee d'Homere, et qu'il appelle lui-meme 'Emigressence'. Il est relativement aise de relever les multiples prises de position d'un auteur, des lors que l'exil, ce va-et-vient sans fin entre identite et alterite, devient matiere a litterature, 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'Hedi Bouraoui ................................................... La valse endiablee des styles pour la ronde des cultures Tant d'autres ancrages l'Italie a bras ouverts et le Canada Le narratoeme explose le conteur est magicien Quand parle la tour les jumelles se font pierres que la vie eteint Ancien monde ou Ameriques nous sommes tous voyageurs - Georges Chapouthier, C.R.N.S., poete. Paris, France
Author Information
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.
