Female Francophone Xenographies. Strangeness and Alienage in Chahdortt Djavann’s Comment peut-on être Français ?

Abstract

French speaking female xenographies re¬pre-sent a new paradigm of plural identity in Europe. The term 'xenograph' includes a large sample of situations related to immi-gration, exile and the journey whose main characteristic is the encounter with other-ness in its various manifestations (linguis-tic, social, cultural and ideological).

Chahdortt Djavann (Iran, 1967-), ex-iled in France since 1993, illustrates the birth of a cross-cultural femenin literature in which are treated the issues of double-strangeness strangeness from a critical perspective toward its original cultural space and territory home