Papers by shabnam nikrafat
N the contemporary world, returning to one’s hometown after a considerable period has inspired co... more N the contemporary world, returning to one’s hometown after a considerable period has inspired countless authors whose lives were affected by emigration and exile. Kossi Efoui, the author of A Returnee’s Solo, and Dany Laferrière, who wrote the Riddle of Return, each has narrated the experience of alterity of returnee in the familiar atmosphere of his hometown. In this paper, the relation between the represented space and the referential one, and the meaning that is consequently resulted in the return process are analyzed based on Westphal’s geocriticism theory. Furthermore, by adapting the heterotopia’s theory, also named the “other space”, which was first presented by Foucault and then developed by Westphal, an explanation of the function of cemetery as the other space has given, which becomes meaningful in contrast with the hometown dominance. The geocritics of Westphal helps us to take into account the referential space based on which literary works are written. It is by relying...
La narration du retour au pays natal apres une longue absence, permet aux ecrivains exiles d’evoq... more La narration du retour au pays natal apres une longue absence, permet aux ecrivains exiles d’evoquer de nouvelles dimensions des relations de l’homme contemporain a une patrie etrangere. Solo d’un revenant de l’ecrivain togolais, Kossi Efoui, raconte le retour d’un exile a sa patrie qui a ete la scene de la guerre pendant son absence. La notion de la trajectivite que nous lions a la geocritique de Westphal, nous apparait feconde, dans cet article, pour l’etude des interactions entre le revenant et l’espace sensoriel de sa patrie. Ainsi, nous analysons les elements qui reduisent la position subjective du revenant en le lancant dans un chemin de devenir. Cela nous conduit a considerer le retour non seulement comme un theme, mais egalement comme un principe structurant dans lequel le concept de la patrie, au lieu d’etre limite dans les associations nostalgiques du sujet, illumine de nouveaux aspects de l’existence de l’homme dans l’espace.
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Papers by shabnam nikrafat