Il Tolomeo Rivista di studi postcoloniali | A Postcolonial Studies Journal | Journal d’études postcoloniales | Revista de estudos pós-coloniais

Journal | Il Tolomeo
Journal issue | 24 | 2022
Research Article | Emancipation of Identity: An Analysis of La discrétion by Faïza Guène

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

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.


Open access | Peer reviewed

Submitted: Feb. 4, 2022 | Accepted: Feb. 6, 2022 | Published Feb. 10, 2022 | Language: fr

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

Copyright © 2022 Fulvia Ardenghi. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2022/01/000


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