LEADER 03537nam 22005415 450 001 9910878051403321 005 20240728125231.0 010 $a9783031492341$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031492334 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-49234-1 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31570065 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31570065 035 $a(CKB)33469048100041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-49234-1 035 $a(EXLCZ)9933469048100041 100 $a20240728d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLife Writing and Transcultural Youth in Contemporary France $eAzouz Begag, Maryam Madjidi, and Laura Alcoba /$fby Dervila Cooke 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (306 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Cooke, Dervila Life Writing and Transcultural Youth in Contemporary France Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2024 9783031492334 327 $a1. Blended Stories -- 2. Azouz Begag: Questions of Home in a French Writer of Algerian Descent -- 3. Maryam-Madjidi: Multiple Belongings, Authenticity, and the Dilemmas of Self-Acceptance -- 4. Laura Alcoba?s Autofictional Memorials of Youth -- 5 Creating Places to Inhabit : "In-between" Self Expression in France. 330 $aThis book analyses transcultural works of life writing relating to youth and childhood by Azouz Begag, Maryam Madjidi, and Laura Alcoba, of Algerian, Iranian, and Argentinian heritage respectively. With a strong focus on societal issues in France from the turn of the millennium to early 2024, including the intersections between the postcolonial and the transcultural, it analyses the authors? relationship with France and the ?home? country, and the problematic pull of return. Each author uses life writing in a transpersonal manner, and expresses multiple cultural belongings. Begag displays playful yet compulsive self-reinvention, Madjidi uses autofiction in a search for authenticity, and Alcoba?s approach highlights the difficulties of dealing with traumatic personal and national memory. A substantial overview is given of each author?s ?uvre, along with societal context for the country of origin or descent, followed by close textual analysis. This is a companion volume to Dervila Cooke?s 2024 monograph on Québec. Dervila Cooke teaches in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University. She is the author of Indigenous and Transcultural Narratives in Québec (2024), Present Pasts: Patrick Modiano's (Auto) Biographical Fictions (2005) and editor of New Work on Immigration and Identity in Contemporary France, Québec, and Ireland (2016), and of Modiano et l?image (2012). 606 $aEuropean literature 606 $aFiction 606 $aCreative nonfiction 606 $aEuropean Literature 606 $aFiction Literature 606 $aNon-Fiction Literature 615 0$aEuropean literature. 615 0$aFiction. 615 0$aCreative nonfiction. 615 14$aEuropean Literature. 615 24$aFiction Literature. 615 24$aNon-Fiction Literature. 676 $a843.0093523 700 $aCooke$b Dervila$01733465 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910878051403321 996 $aLife Writing and Transcultural Youth in Contemporary France$94201732 997 $aUNINA