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    The Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France

    Oana Sabo (Author)

    9781496204943

    Hardback, published 1 April 2018

    210 pages, Index
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg

    The Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France explains the causes of twenty-first-century global migrations and their impact on French literature and the French literary establishment. A marginal genre in 1980s France, since the turn of the century “migrant literature” has become central to criticism and publishing.

    Oana Sabo addresses previously unanswered questions about the proliferation of contemporary migrant texts and their shifting themes and forms, mechanisms of literary legitimation, and notions of critical and commercial achievement. Through close readings of novels (by Mathias Énard, Milan Kundera, Dany LaferriÈre, Henri LopÈs, AndreÏ Makine, Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Alice Zeniter, and others) and sociological analyses of their consecrating authorities (including the Prix littÉraire de la Porte DorÉe, the AcadÉmie franÇaise, publishing houses, and online reviewers), Sabo argues that these texts are best understood as cultural commodities that mediate between literary and economic forms of value, academic and mass readerships, and national and global literary markets. By examining the latest literary texts and cultural agents not yet subjected to sufficient critical study, Sabo contributes to contemporary literature, cultural history, migration studies, and literary sociology. 
     

    Acknowledgments
    Introduction: The French Literary Field in the New Millennium
    1. Production: Publishing Houses and Their Marketing Practices
    2. Reception: Online Readers in the Global Literary Marketplace
    3. Consecration: The Prix littÉ
    raire de la Porte DorÉ
    e and Its Migrant Archive
    4. Canonization: Dany LaferriÈ
    re at the AcadÉ
    mie franÇ
    aise
    Conclusion: French Migrant Literature in a Global Context
    Notes
    References
    Index
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