Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Abstract
In this essay, I explore various dimensions of theoretical terms such as exile, nomadism, diaspora, and border. These terms have a temporal and spatial dimension. They are not equivalent to each other and they generate different kinds of identity narratives. In fact, in their strict definitions, as John Durham Peters demonstrates, they oppose each other. Yet, in contemporary texts, fiction and non- fiction, regardless of the individual experiences portrayed, they are also often intertwined. It is the complex mobility of the terms that define the fields of research associated with migration, literary or not, that I render apparent in the works of three different authors, as they meander in a globalized universe. Nancy Huston is an anglophone Canadian writing in French in Paris ; Regine Robin, who grew up in France, with Eastern European and German roots, lives in Montreal ; Emile Ollivier, Haitian writer and sociologist also writes in Montreal.
Recommended Citation
Vitello, Joëlle
(2002)
"Itinéraires spatio-temporels: exil, nomadisme, diaspora chez Nancy Hudson, Régine Robin et Émile Ollivier,"
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 58:
No.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol58/iss1/4
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