The Identity Journey in French-speaking Xenography: Maryam Madjidi, a French-Persian Example

Abstract

The main of this article is the critical study of Maryam Madjidi’s firs novel: Marx et la poupée. Laureate of the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman 2017, the autor presents in this text a novelistic construction that highlights the quest for identity intrinsic to the experience of cultural and linguistic uprooting from an autofictional perspective. In this context, we are considered Maryam Madjidi as a paradigmatic example of feminine Francophones xenographs