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The Politics of Urban Space as a 'Discomfort Zone' : Images of Violence in Rawi Hage's Novel Cockroach

In this paper the authors outline the images of violence that portray the city of Montreal as a ‘discomfort zone’ in Rawi Hage's novel Cockroach. Petra Sapun Kurtin and Gordan Matas argue that through the portrayal of the disintegrating concepts of immigrant displacement, discomfort and disillusionment with the use of violent distorted imagery of the urban surroundings, Rawi Hage depicts Canadian urban setting as the space of (contested) multiculturalism policy. Furthermore, the authors argue that the novel is not just an example of uncompromising immigrant prose that emerges as a result of a globalized world, but that within the transnational paradigm and in the context of postcolonial and postmodernist readings, it is also distinctly Canadian.

multiculturalism, transnational literature, immigrant literature, third-space, displacement, urban space

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