The dichotomy North-South denotes in this paper not only the relationship between a non-European country of origin and the European society as it is problematized in selected literary works by four migrant women writers, but also the relationship between the two Dutch-speaking literary fields (the Netherlands and Flanders) as far as migrant literature is concerned. The opening paragraph outlines the theoretical background on which the selection of authors and texts is based. Some diverging features of migrant literature and of its reception in the Netherlands and in Flanders are briefly described in the second section. Aspects of representative literary works are then read in their socio-cultural context in the following sections. Rachida Lamrabet, Chika Unigwe, Yasmine Allas en Ellen Ombre question issues generally related to migration and literature such as the identity quest of the migrant author, her eccentric glance, her in-betweenness and the interplay between the postcolonial and the postmigrant point of view, offering the reader a multilayered and destabilizing view of the so-called multicultural societies.
Il contributo individua alcune ricorrenze di un'attribuzione di significati simbolici ai punti cardinali nell'opera di autrici migranti dei Paesi Bassi e del Belgio
Noord-Zuid/Zuid-Noord. Aspecten van (vrouwelijke) migrantenliteratuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen / Terrenato, Francesca. - STAMPA. - 7(2016), pp. 61-75.
Noord-Zuid/Zuid-Noord. Aspecten van (vrouwelijke) migrantenliteratuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen
TERRENATO, FRANCESCAWriting – Original Draft Preparation
2016
Abstract
The dichotomy North-South denotes in this paper not only the relationship between a non-European country of origin and the European society as it is problematized in selected literary works by four migrant women writers, but also the relationship between the two Dutch-speaking literary fields (the Netherlands and Flanders) as far as migrant literature is concerned. The opening paragraph outlines the theoretical background on which the selection of authors and texts is based. Some diverging features of migrant literature and of its reception in the Netherlands and in Flanders are briefly described in the second section. Aspects of representative literary works are then read in their socio-cultural context in the following sections. Rachida Lamrabet, Chika Unigwe, Yasmine Allas en Ellen Ombre question issues generally related to migration and literature such as the identity quest of the migrant author, her eccentric glance, her in-betweenness and the interplay between the postcolonial and the postmigrant point of view, offering the reader a multilayered and destabilizing view of the so-called multicultural societies.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
