TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waters,Julia
TI  - The Mauritian Novel: Fictions of Belonging
T2  - Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures Ser.
SN  - 9781786949493
U1  - 843.9209353 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Liverpool
PB  - Liverpool University Press
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Problem of Belonging in Mauritius -- 1. Belonging to the Moment: Carl de Souza's Les Jours Kaya -- 2. Belonging to the Island: Nathacha Appanah's Blue Bay Palace and Ananda Devi's �Eve de ses d�ecombres -- 3. Belonging Nowhere: Shenaz Patel's Le Silence des Chagos -- 4. Everyday Belonging: Bertrand de Robillard's L'Homme qui penche and Une interminable distraction au monde -- 5. Nomadic Belonging: Amal Sewtohul's Histoire d'Ashok et d'autres personnages de moindre importance and Made in Mauritius -- Conclusion: Over the Rainbow -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - 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
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