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Ananda Devi et certains de l’exil
Ananda Devi and Some from Exile

Author(s): Philippe Sahuc
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, French Literature, Other Language Literature, Migration Studies, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Ananda Devi; migration; poetic writing; wide understanding

Summary/Abstract: Inspired by Devi’s Ceux du large (2017) and by authors connected to her, a performance has been created by the author, who was to conduct an oral creative workshop among whose participants were young immigrants. Trying to take into account both dimensions of such an artistic but also human experience, the text points out the links between Ananda Devi’s words and the young immigrants’ ones, and also the influence of having read them on the way to lead the workshop. But, above all, it shows how such a poetic writing is necessary not to reduce migration to a simple and measurable fact.

  • Issue Year: 1/2022
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 1-11
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: French