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dc.identifier	ECF_article_8031
dc.title	Emancipation of Identity: An Analysis of La discrétion by Faïza Guène
dc.contributor.author	Ardenghi Fulvia
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	fr
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/il-tolomeo/2022/1/emancipation-identitaire-une-analyse-de-la-discret/
dc.description.abstract	Faïza Guène’s sixth novel La discrétion focuses on a Maghreb Muslim woman who, having migrated to France, is trying to reconstruct her personal and family history. It is a memoir whose aim is to make the experiences of first-generation migrants an integral part of cultural memory. This search for identity concerns the children of those migrants who try to relate to a fragmented, often suppressed family history they did not experience themselves, but whose burden they nonetheless inherited. The aim of this article will be to prove that what allows both the protagonist of the story and who tells it to free themselves from this overwhelming past is in fact the narrative itself, a process of identity construction with which each author is confronted.
dc.relation.ispartof	Il Tolomeo
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 24 \| December 2022
dc.issued	2022-02-10
dc.dateAccepted	2022-02-06
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-02-04
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-5975
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2022/01/000
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Beur
dc.subject	Faïza Guène
dc.subject	La discrétion
dc.subject	Memoirs
dc.subject	Postcolonial identity and subjectivity

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Emancipation of Identity: An Analysis of La discrétion by Faïza Guène

Fulvia Ardenghi Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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Faïza Guène’s sixth novel La discrétion focuses on a Maghreb Muslim woman who, having migrated to France, is trying to reconstruct her personal and family history. It is a memoir whose aim is to make the experiences of first-generation migrants an integral part of cultural memory. This search for identity concerns the children of those migrants who try to relate to a fragmented, often suppressed family history they did not experience themselves, but whose burden they nonetheless inherited. The aim of this article will be to prove that what allows both the protagonist of the story and who tells it to free themselves from this overwhelming past is in fact the narrative itself, a process of identity construction with which each author is confronted.

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Feb. 10, 2022

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Feb. 6, 2022

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Feb. 4, 2022

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Keywords: La discrétion • Postcolonial identity and subjectivity • Faïza Guène • Memoirs • Beur

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