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

Autori
Matas, Gordan ; Sapun Kurtin, Petra

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Canadian History, Space and Political Institutions = L’histoire, l’espace et les institutions politiques du Canada

Urednik/ci
Kostadinov, Biljana

Izdavač
Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu ; Hrvatsko-kanadsko akademsko društvo

Grad
Zagreb : Split

Godina
2012

Raspon stranica
195-208

ISBN
978-953-7395-49-0

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

Sažetak
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.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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