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Students

- have aquired theoretical knowledige of key concepts closely linked to literature of migration, such as: transculturality, hybridity, in-between, multilingualism, francophony
- are familiar with the main topics and aesthetic strategies of the literature of migration
- know contemporary authors of Chinese descent writing in French 
- are able to analyze and contextualize their works 
- are able to reflect upon the 'risks and side effects' of this literary production. In such context contexts such as (literary) exoticsm, (auto-)orientalism and writing-in/writing-back are important 

In a first theoretical part key-concepts in the context of migrant literature will be presented and discussed, articles about transculturality / hybridity, a poetics of migration etc. will be read.

A second part will deal with contemporary writers of Chinese descent who have moved to France and who have chosen to write in French. The following questions will be of interest: 

- Why writers as Dai Sijie, Francois Cheng, Shan Sa or Gao Xingjiang (winner of the Nobel Prize in 2000) are so popular, (not only) in France?
- To what extent their writing differs from texts produced by authors of a former French colony (as Vietnam, for instance)?
- What are the main topics of this literary production? And what aesthetic strategies are used to speak about an 'in between identity'?
- To what extent the (traumatic) Chinese History (Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, Tian An Men, etc.) is considered?

Discussion
Common reading
Presentation of the results (to be specified)

Regular Participation
detailed reading of the texts
a written 'dossier théoretico-pratique'

- Dai Sijie, Balzac et la petite tailleuse chinoise
- Shan Sa, La joueuse de Go
- Ling Xi, Été strident (nouvelles)
- Francois Cheng: Selected Poetry

Pröll, Julia: "Seltsam, Sie sind nicht sehr chinesisch!" Autor*innen chinesischer Herkunft, die auf Französisch schreiben, stellen sich vor. Innsbruck: Innsbruck University Press: 2012.