The Mauritian novel : fictions of belonging /

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, Shena...

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Main Author: Waters, Julia, 1967- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2018.
Series:Contemporary French and francophone cultures ; 56.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9781786949493
1786949490