La vie devant soi – Life is both behind and ahead of us: Hope for the future from traumatic pasts? Momo and the film versions, Madame Rosa and The life ahead, reveal difficult pasts and hope for the ...future. The writer, Romain Gary, integrates migrant literature and traumatic experciences. The relation between literature, translation and visual presentations is discussed in this article. Madame Rosa, a Sjoa-survival and previous sexworker, looks after children of sexworkers. Momo, an immigrant Muslim child, lives with her. In the beginning there is opposition towards one another, but as the story develops, they start accepting one another. The article shows that difficult pasts have implication for the relationship between people. The relation between the novel and the film versions, Madame Rosa and The life ahead, is discussed. The article shows that the lives of the characters are tragic, but there is also hope brought about by shared humanity, which is present in both the novel and the film versions.Contribution The contribution of this article is the unique view on the comparison between the novel Momo and the film versions thereof. It creates new possibilities in the approach of literature and film theory. In this novel and its film versions hope springs directly from a traumatic past.
La vie devant soi – Life is both behind and ahead of us: Hope for the future from traumatic pasts? Momo and the film versions, Madame Rosa and The life ahead, reveal difficult pasts and hope for the ...future. The writer, Romain Gary, integrates migrant literature and traumatic experciences. The relation between literature, translation and visual presentations is discussed in this article. Madame Rosa, a Sjoa-survival and previous sexworker, looks after children of sexworkers. Momo, an immigrant Muslim child, lives with her. In the beginning there is opposition towards one another, but as the story develops, they start accepting one another. The article shows that difficult pasts have implication for the relationship between people. The relation between the novel and the film versions, Madame Rosa and The life ahead, is discussed. The article shows that the lives of the characters are tragic, but there is also hope brought about by shared humanity, which is present in both the novel and the film versions. Contribution: The contribution of this article is the unique view on the comparison between the novel Momo and the film versions thereof. It creates new possibilities in the approach of literature and film theory. In this novel and its film versions hope springs directly from a traumatic past.
This review presents some key issues in the mainland Chinese research on literary works of Chinese emigrants and authors of Chinese descent examining a series of recently published and representative ...papers. After a brief retrospection of the development of relative studies in the country, the author discusses the questions of denomination, methodology, and canon by juxtaposing opinions of various scholars. In the analysis a particular attention is given to the “Chineseness”, a concept sometimes mythicized by some essentialist discourses in the Chinese academia.
It was the acts of racism that prompted the debate on immigration in Italy. At the same time, the phenomenon was recognised thanks to the literary production of authors, whose efforts gave rise to ...migrant literature in Italy. Over the years, this focus on immigrants saw a gradual maturation which, while stimulating the evolution of the intercultural perspective in the Italian context, also resulted in an increasingly recurring motif in textbooks: an opportunity for in-depth study and reflection in the classroom on the theme of racism and anti-racism, rights and duties, diversity and affinity, opportunities and equality. Starting from these assumptions, as well as from their own study and research experience, the authors aim to explore how much the use of migrant literature can contribute to promoting intercultural education and thus the construction of a broader critical-reflective thinking, capable of leading to the overcoming of racism in favour of a culture of anti-racism.
The studies gathered in the collection present the Russian-language Israeli literature that has been forming over the past hundred years in all the variety of genres and aesthetic movements. In every ...generation and in every aliyah, Russian-Israeli authors tirelessly search for new forms, born of the encounter with the new land.
As a response to recent mass migratory movements, numerous children’s novels about refugees have been published in the last decades. The paper analyses two of these novels, Alan Gratz’s ...Refugee (2017) and Gillian Cross’s After Tomorrow (2013), and puts them into the context of the ‘transcultural turn’ in cultural studies. The paper also presents the results of a survey among university lecturers of various countries about the benefits, challenges and teaching aims of including migrant and refugee literature into the courses they teach.
This essay reconstructs the Friulian immigrant experience to Canada through the works of some Friulian and Julian-Dalmatian writers. It highlights how while voicing the deep sense of loss that ...Friulians feel for their homeland, these texts also prompt a reconciliation with displacement and a reconfiguration of the idea of home which can include multiple belongings. It also analyses how these texts employ different languages, including Friulian, as a strategy of historical reappropriation of the immigrant experience and of renegotiation of identity.L’esperienza migrante dei friulano-canadesiL’articolo ricostruisce la storia dell’emigrazione friulana in Canada attraverso un’analisi di alcune opere di scrittori friulani e giuliano-dalmati. Oltre a dare voce al persistente dolore che affligge i friulani per la perdita della propria patria, questi testi evidenziano anche la necessità di superare il trauma della dislocazione e ridefinire i concetti di patria e appartenenza. Si analizza inoltre come l’uso di diverse lingue, tra cui il friulano, costituisca una strategia di riappropriazione storica dell’esperienza migrante e di rinegoziazione identitaria.
Perspectives on the lives of migrants in their host countries tend to be bicultural, which is at odds with the multiethnic reality of British industrial cities, especially with London’s low-paid ...sector. This paper proposes migrant literature as an antidote to bicultural restrictions. It endeavors to provide a comparative reading of writings by Polish migrant authors about interactions with other migrants in Britain and other migrant writers’ perceptions of Poles. The corpus consists of post-accession texts and includes, among others, books by A. M. Bakalar, Gosia Brzezińska, Grzegorz Kopaczewski, Daniel Koziarski, Adam Miklasz, Jarek Sępek, and Daniel Zuchowski on the one hand, and Marina Lewycka and Aleksandrs Ruģēns (alias Vilis Lācītis alias William B. Foreignerski), on the other. Given that the authors in question draw on diverse—Polish, British, Ukrainian, Latvian, and other East European—traditions of cultural and/or economic Othering, this paper scrutinizes both the mutual Orientalizing tendencies and the transnationalizing trajectories involved.
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