Le temps de l’émigration dans les oeuvres de Abla Farhoud

  1. Manuel García Martínez 1
  1. 1 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
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    Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

    Santiago de Compostela, España

    ROR https://ror.org/030eybx10

Book:
Mediterráneo Inter/Transcultural: el Otro, el lugar del otro, la lengua del otro
  1. Carlota Vicens-Pujol (coord.)
  2. Cristina Solé Castells (coord.)
  3. Lídia Anoll Vendrell (coord.)
  4. María Gracia Vila Mengual (coord.)

Publisher: Universidad de las Islas Baleares = Universitat de les Illes Balears

ISBN: 9788483843857

Year of publication: 2019

Pages: 285-298

Congress: Asociación de Francesistas de la Universidad Española. Coloquio (26. 2017. null)

Type: Conference paper

Abstract

This article analyses the experiences with time had by the characters in three plays by Abla Farhoud, a Canadian francophone playwright, who emigrated from Lebanon: Quand j’étais grande (1994), Les filles du 5-10- 15c (1993), and Jeux de patience (1997). This article shows how the characters, who have been through immigration and trauma because of war, experience the present, and have special perspectives on time with regard to their past and their future. The experiences of time are also metaphorically present in the structure of the plays, with the emergence of memories of the past. This article analyses how the three plays have three different conclusions that are three possible symbolic outcomes of their situation.