“Multicultural Literatures” in a Comparative Perspective

This article discusses the debate within the Dutch academy on the differentiation between migration and postcolonial writing as a symptom of an area of study in search of consensus. It offers a synthetic reading of the writing of two leading Dutch authors: Hafid Bouazza and Ramsey Nasr based on the assumption that both writers, through their widely different aesthetic and political negotiations, shape the discourse on multicultural literature and society in the Netherlands.

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Afro-Swedish and Ojibwe-Canadian Trauma Life Writings: Storms from Paradise, Reasons for Walking, and the Opening of Planetary Circles of Conversation

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2023

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Following Spivak’s model of “crossing borders” and “planetarity”, this article compares two trauma life writings: Wab Kinew’s The Reason You Walk and Johannes Anyuru’s En storm kom från paradiset [A Storm Blew in from Paradise]. They negotiate transcultural identity construction and the intergenerational impact of colonialism, drawing respectively on Jewish philosophy of history, decolonization theory, and Indigenous Anishinaabe and Blackfoot worldviews. Deconstructing Eurowestern linear thinking, they reflect on the power of the moment and ongoing relational reciprocity. In this way, they embrace equity, diversity, and inclusion, and encourage planetary, transcultural, and decolonizing circles of conversation.

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“Multicultural Literatures” in a Comparative Perspective

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Afro-Swedish and Ojibwe-Canadian Trauma Life Writings: Storms from Paradise, Reasons for Walking, and the Opening of Planetary Circles of Conversation

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