Transcultural Migration in the Novels of Hédi Bouraoui A New Ulysses (Francopolyphonies)

Contents
	Chapter 1
Introduction
	Chapter 2 Hédi Bouraoui’s Cap Nord: Mythopoeia
and the Quest for Language
		1 North and South: the New Hannibal
		2 A Ulyssean Quest
		3 Islands and the Quest for Language
		4 Female Mentors: Saadia and Safia
		5 Albert Lacouture and Tante Souad: Written and Folkloric Traditions
		6 Manhattan Island: English and the New World
		7 Voices from Beyond the Grave: Father and Mother
		8 Sardinia: the Journey Begins
		9 Descent into the Underground
		10 Women and Islands
		11 A Storytelling Festival
		12 Sicily: the Crossroads
		13 Mama Lucia and the Word of the Father
		14 A Return and a New Departure: towards the Mother
	Chapter 3 Penelope Liberated: the Female Quest in Les Aléas
d’une Odyssée
		1 Part 1
Corsica: the Mother Discovered
			1.1 Return to Origins
			1.2 Corsica: Mothers and Muses, True and False
			1.3 Mentors: the Personal and the Political
			1.4 The Ending: “Levons l’ancre”
		2 Part 2
Le Dit de Pénélope: Laura at the Helm
			2.1 Crete: Muses, Mothers, Mentors, Monsters, and Gods
			2.2 The House of Kitzikis
	Chapter 4 Adventures of a Young Man: the Initiation
of Télémaque in Méditerranée à voile toute
		1 Première Partie: Hanniballade à Majorque
			1.1 Hannibal in Mallorca: Microcosm and Macrocosm
			1.2 Hannibal’s Epiphany or “Illumination”
			1.3 Hannibal and Dolorès: “He Said, She Said”
			1.4 Laura Takes Command
			1.5 The Detective Story: Inès’s Kidnapping
		2 Deuxième Partie: Le Marcheur de Malte: Télémaque
Takes the Reins
			2.1 Malta: Prologue in Paris
			2.2 Malta: Center of the Mediterranean
			2.3 Love and History: the Legends of Malta and the Fat Lady
			2.4 The Wisdom of the Aged
			2.5 Walking and Reading: Mens Sana in Corpore Sano
			2.6 Gozo: Calypso’s Isle
			2.7 The Carnival: a Bakhtinian Celebration
	Chapter 5 Sept portes pour une brûlance: Mad Love
and Poetic Creation
		1 The Mystic Number Seven
		2 The Frame Tale
		3 The Female Narrator: Shifting Identities
		4 The Language of the Heart
		5 The Battle of the Sexes
		6 Corsica and the Homeric Frame
		7 The Death of Love, the Birth of Art
		8 The Reader’s Seduction
	Chapter 6 Berber Girl in Paris: Illusions Lost
and Faisances Found
		1 The Title: Colonizer and Colonized
		2 Structure: Triangularity and Circularity
		3 Paean to the Southwest
		4 Adventures of a Book
		5 Tassadit: Berber Girl as Storyteller
		6 Culture Shocks: French Realism, Berber Arabesques
		7 “Famille, je te hais !”
		8 The Americanization of Ariane: a Parallel Failure
		9 The Cultural Revolution of May ’68 and Its Aftermath
	Chapter 7 La Réfugiée (Lotus au Pays du Lys): a Transgeneric
Poetic Voyage
		1 The Epic and the Language of Flowers
		2 Private and Public Spheres: DorBoa’s Family and Laos
		3 DorBoa in France: Paradise or Purgatory?
		4 Refugee versus Immigrant: Issues of Free Choice
		5 DorBoa Cultivates Her Garden … and Language
		6 DorBoa and Politics
		7 DorBoa and the Worship of Idols
		8 Culture Shocks and French Xenophobia
		9 “Lotus in Africa”: Buddhist Meets Muslim
		10 DorBoa’s Dark Side: the Serpent in the Garden
		11 Ritual and the Daily Routine
		12 Innocence in a Fallen World
		13 A “Traversée” of Cultures
	Chapter 8
Puglia with Open Arms: Otherness Embraced
	Chapter 9 Wandering Words: Tracing the Ulyssean Cycle
in Le Conteur
		1 Circles and Cycles: Canada and the Mediterranean
		2 Living Words versus Technology
		3 Politics and Language
		4 Fiction and Language
		5 Written and Oral Traditions: a Dialectic
		6 The “Real” versus the Fictive
		7 Frederick II and Samy: a Role Model
		8 Let the Conteurs Speak: Male and Female
		9 Italy Comes to Canada
	Chapter 10 Les Jumelles de l’oncle Sam: Immigration and
American Women
		1 Female Towers and Patriarchal Dominance
		2 Peggy Windley: in Memoriam
		3 Freedom and the Defrocked Nun
		4 Saïd: from Naïf to Sage
	Chapter 11 Beyond the New Novel: Faisance,
Narratoème, “Slice of Life”
		1 Mutante, la Poésie: a Retrospective
		2 NomadiVivance I: towards the Future
		3 Orbit’Luire Maremma: “Seize the Day”
			3.1 No Visa Required
			3.2 Orbiting the Maremma: the Inspiration
			3.3 Genesis of the Work
			3.4 The Maremma: Microcosm and Macrocosm
			3.5 From Journal to Faisance: Autoportrait of the Artist
			3.6 Poetry: “the Quintessence of Language”
			3.7 The School: Encounters and Friendships
			3.8 The Boy and the Windmill: “Carpe Diem”
			3.9 Lagoons, Myth, and History
			3.10 The Voyage Outward: Orbetello to Italy
			3.11 From South to North: Italy to Canada
	Chapter 12
Conclusion
	Works Cited/Consulted
		Primary Texts
			Novels
			Poetry
			Mixed Genre
			Criticism
			Article
		Secondary Texts
			Collections on Bouraoui
			Books and Articles
	Index