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.
Velibor Čolić, književnik rođen u Bosni i Hercegovini 1964., od 1992. godine nastanjen je u Francuskoj. Osamdesetih je godina 20. stoljeća književne tekstove počeo pisati na materinskom jeziku, da bi ...nakon odlaska u egzil francuski postao privilegirani jezik njegova stvaralačkog izražavanja. U nizu svojih recentnijih proznih tekstova tematizira migrantsko iskustvo koje ga je egzistencijalno obilježilo. U radu se, na temelju hermeneutičke analize javnih nastupa te razgovora koje je Velibor Čolić vodio s novinarima francuskih, hrvatskih, slovenskih, crnogorskih i bosanskohercegovačkih medija, propituje način na koji on u njima diskurzivno konstruira autorsku posturu migrantskog i translingvalnog autora te se na taj način pozicionira u francuskom književnom polju.
Velibor Čolić, a writer born in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1964, has lived in France since 1992. In the 1980’s, he began to write literary texts in his mother tongue, and after going into exile, French became the privileged language of his creative expression. In his more recent prose texts, he thematizes the migrant experience that marked him existentially. Based on the hermeneutic analysis of public appearances and conversations that Velibor Čolić had with journalists from the French, Croatian, Slovenian, Montenegrin and Bosnian media, the paper examines the way in which he discursively constructs the auctorial posture of a migrant and translingual author and positions himself in the French literary field.
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.
