Publisher's Synopsis
This book focuses on the aporia of the here and the elsewhere in Fatou Diome's works: la Préférence nationale and Autres nouvelles, le Ventre de l'Atlantique, and Impossible de grandir and in Franz Innerhofer's novel trilogy: Schöne Tage, Schattseite and Die Grossen Wörter. Our ambition is to build a thematic corpus around the authors constituting this doctoral research, in order to compare two cultural areas, or even a corpus of a comparative reading of contemporary African writers and Germanists who have tackled the same themes. Undertaking such a comparison poses a real difficulty, especially as the countries of the two authors have different histories. It is against this backdrop that we have analyzed the literary strategies and techniques, and even the literary reception of the works of the two authors. Making the future of the migrant a recurring theme, the identity of a young woman and a young man is explored in the works of Fatou Diome and Franz Innerhofer.
