Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Contemporary Prose in Flanders: The Writings by Chika Unigwe, Koen Peeters and Benno Barnard

In light of the increasing public visibility of different counter-discourses promoting multilingual, transnational, and anti-identitarian aspects of Flemish and Belgian culture, the multilingual strategies deployed in a series of Flemish prose texts imagine a world beyond Flemish monolingual nationalism, and, as such, gain social and political relevance. The paper discusses a number of selected texts (by Chika Unigwe, Koen Peeters and Benno Barnard) to illustrate this point.

ISBN:978-90-420-3733-5

Jaar van publicatie:2013

Trefwoorden:identity, monolinguality, monolingual literature, multilinguality, multilingual literature, prose, contemporary prose, Flanders, Belgium, Brussels, postcolonial studies, Belgitude