The Migrant Text: Making and Marketing a Global French Literature

by Subha Xavier

The expression "litt rature migrante," coined by Qu b cois critics in the mid-1980s, reflected the emerging body of literary works written by recent immigrants to the province. Redefining the concept of migrancy, Subha Xavier's The Migrant Text argues that global movements of people have fundamentally changed literary production over the past thirty years. Bringing together a corpus of recent novels by immigrants to France and Quebec, Xavier suggests...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773547606
• ISBN13: 9780773547605
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"