The Spatial Imaginary and Literary Reflections on the Political
The Spatial Imaginary and Literary Reflections on the Political

Summary/Abstract: Through an analysis of two immigrant narratives published in the francophone province of Quebec, Canada, I wish to examine the specifically literary forms of reflecting on the political, of rewriting dominant models of the nation, and even of deconstructing newer, critical models of inequality such as John Porter’s vertical Canadian mosaic. The complex and fluid spatial imaginary of the narratives rewrites commonly accepted paradigms and renders them more complex in a “making visible” of social, economic and political forces. Drawing on Rancière’s writing on the “politics of literature,” but going beyond it by using insights from Deleuze and Guattari, Lyotard, and Rorty to understand “literary thinking,” I focus on the immigrant authors Mona Latif Ghattas and Émile Ollivier.

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