Mauritian Novel : Fictions of Belonging

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures LUP Ser | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Oxford : Liverpool University Press, 2019Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (248 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781786949493
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Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Problem of Belonging in Mauritius; 1. Belonging to the Moment: Carl de Souza's Les Jours Kaya; 2. Belonging to the Island: Nathacha Appanah's Blue Bay Palace and Ananda Devi's Ève de ses decombres; 3. Belonging Nowhere: Shenaz Patel's Le Silence des Chagos; 4. Everyday Belonging: Bertrand de Robillard's L'Homme qui penche and Une interminable distraction au monde; 5. Nomadic Belonging: Amal Sewtohul's Histoire d'Ashok et d'autres personnages de moindre importance and Made in Mauritius; Conclusion: Over the Rainbow; Bibliography; Index
Summary: This book analyses how the idea - or the problem - of belonging is articulated in a range of contemporary francophone Mauritian novels. Waters explores how forms of affective belonging intersect with the exclusionary 'politics of belonging' in novels by Nathacha Appanah, Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, Bertrand de Robillard, Amal Sewtohul and Carl de Souza.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Problem of Belonging in Mauritius; 1. Belonging to the Moment: Carl de Souza's Les Jours Kaya; 2. Belonging to the Island: Nathacha Appanah's Blue Bay Palace and Ananda Devi's Ève de ses decombres; 3. Belonging Nowhere: Shenaz Patel's Le Silence des Chagos; 4. Everyday Belonging: Bertrand de Robillard's L'Homme qui penche and Une interminable distraction au monde; 5. Nomadic Belonging: Amal Sewtohul's Histoire d'Ashok et d'autres personnages de moindre importance and Made in Mauritius; Conclusion: Over the Rainbow; Bibliography; Index

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This book analyses how the idea - or the problem - of belonging is articulated in a range of contemporary francophone Mauritian novels. Waters explores how forms of affective belonging intersect with the exclusionary 'politics of belonging' in novels by Nathacha Appanah, Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, Bertrand de Robillard, Amal Sewtohul and Carl de Souza.

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