L’HISTOIRE D’UNE QUÊTE IDENTITAIRE DANS MADE IN MAURITIUS D’AMAL SEWTOHUL
THE STORY OF A QUEST FOR IDENTITY IN "MADE IN MAURITIUS" BY AMAL SEWTOHUL

Summary/Abstract: Amal Sewtohul’s third novel, “Made in Mauritius”, tackles exoticism in relation to emigration and creolisation. Through the voice of its protagonist, Laval, of a Chinese-Mauritian extraction, applying for Australian citizenship, we are offered samples of an exotic world with anchors in the social and the political issues of globalisation. The novel exposes some interrogations, such as what constitutes a nation nowadays and it gives us clues to reflect on words like nationalism, transnationalism and globalisation. Mauritius, as Laval’s birthplace, is not a monolithic nation, but a nation «arc-en-ciel», made of the sum of the histories of the inhabitants.

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