Table of Contents

Introduction Peter I. Barta and Phil Powrie 1. Prologue: ‘Le langage latin m’est comme naturel’: Montaigne and the Trials of Trilingualism Philip Ford Part 1 :Reframing Space to Accommodate Displacement 2. Reframing métissage: The Politics of Transcultural Space in Abdellatif Kechiche’s La faute à Voltaire/Blame it on Voltaire (2000) James S. Williams 3. The Mediation of Difference in London River (Rachid Bouchareb, 2009) Carrie Tarr 4. The Location of the Bicultural: The Coast in Three Maghrebi-French Films Phil Powrie 5. Ten’ja (Legzouli, 2004): Displacing the Accent and the Myth of Return in Francophone Diasporic Cinema Will Higbee 6. Tehran, Vienna, Paris: The Cultural Geographies of Persepolis Cristina Johnston 7. Second Languages, Second Births: Karin Albou, Ronit Elkabetz, and the Rediscovery of Mediterranean Jewish Multilingualism Robert Watson Part 2: Writing the Self Between Two Cultures 8. The French Writings of Alexander Herzen Derek Offord 9. English and French in Olga Voyeikova’s Letters Peter I. Barta and Véronique Jobert 10. ‘Un peu de vraie conversation . . . un peu de colloque’: Samuel Beckett as Bicultural Writer Corinne Scheiner 11. Joseph Conrad, Bilingualism, Trilingualism, Plurilingualism Robert Hampson 12. Outside-In, or l’Entre-deux: Elsa Triolet’s Early Fiction in French Claire Davison-Pégon 13. The Murder of the Mother Tongue: Agota Kristof’s The Notebook Andrea Timár 14. Translating Culture: Linguistic Attachment, Detachment and (Self)-Narration Fiona J. Doloughan 15. Epilogue: Here Not There: Writing Outside the Mother Tongue Elleke Boehmer

About the Author

Peter I. Barta is Professor Emeritus in the School of English and Languages at the University of Surrey, UK and Professor of Comparative Literature at Texas Tech University, US.

Phil Powrie is Professor of Cinema Studies and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences at the University of Surrey, UK.