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Écrire pour résister à la disparition
Written against Disparition

Author(s): Elisabeth Schulz
Subject(s): French Literature, Theory of Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Myriam Ben; Naïm Kattan; Lucien Elia; resistance; resilience;

Summary/Abstract: Naim Kattan, Lucien Elia, Myriam Ben are three Jewish writers who grew up in the Muslim countries of Irak, Lebanon, Algeria respectively. They see each other reduced to a powerless silence in the face of injustice and destruction. Writing challenges and regains power for them to speak on behalf of the silenced. They release a word which, once pronounced, sounds more like a shout, a desperate shout full of anger yet a shout of triumph, a shout of war. Tenacity hope and a call for change fills their resilien cries.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 91-106
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: French
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