Migration, Memory and Matters of Identity: Narrative Strategies of Lebanese-Canadian Authors - Softcover

Dickert, Matthias

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3389192018 ISBN 13: 9783389192016

Publisher: Grin Verlag, 2026

Synopsis

Scientific Essay from the year 2026 in the subject Literature - Canada, University of Marburg (Marburger Zentrum für Kanada-Studien), course: Canada Day 2026, language: English, abstract: This study examines how Lebanese-Canadian authors Rawi Hage and Dimitri Nasrallah negotiate migration, memory, exile, and questions of identity in contemporary Canadian literature. Focusing on Hage's "Cockroach" and Nasrallah's "Hotline", it explores how experiences of war, displacement, trauma, and cultural transition shape narrative strategies, character development, and the search for belonging. The book situates both novels within the wider contexts of Canadian Muslim Writing, postcolonial literature, and transnational fiction. It shows how Lebanese-Canadian writing contributes to current debates on diaspora, hybridity, survival, social exclusion, and the ambivalent promise of multicultural Canada. By bringing together literary analysis and cultural context, this study highlights the significance of Lebanese-Canadian voices within modern CanLit and asks how literature can give form to lives marked by loss, movement, memory, and the difficult construction of a new home.

Edition details

• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3389192018
• ISBN 13: 9783389192016
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 40