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Author:

Dahab, Elizabeth, 1952-

Title:

Voices of exile in contemporary Canadian francophone literature / F. Elizabeth Dahab.

Publisher:

Lexington Books,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

xv, 229 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

French-Canadian literature--History and criticism.--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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-220) and index.

Contents:

The Odysses of Québécois/Canadian-Arabic writers and their writing -- Deprivation and despair in Saad Elkhadem's Wings of lead, The plague, Trilogy of the flying Egyptian, and One night in Cairo -- From Baghdad to Montréal via Paris : Naïm Kattan and his multiple reality -- Of suffocated minds and tortured hearts : the universe of Abla Farhoud -- Of broken promises and mended lives : the war-ravaged world of Wajdi Mouawad -- "Fragments and enigmas" : Hédi Bouraoui and La femme d'entre les lignes.

Series:

After the empire

ISBN:

0739138383 (electronic)
9780739138380 (electronic)
0739118781 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739118788 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)317361731

LCCN:

2009011618

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)