Abstract

TUDORAS, Laura-Eugenia. Other cultures Reflections and multilingualism in postmodern French narrative. Acta poét [online]. 2018, vol.39, n.1, pp.109-133. ISSN 2448-735X.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.ap.2018.1.817.

This article analyses a representative corpus of multilingualism´s manifestations in the in the French novel of the last decade of the twentieth century and up to the present It also analyses the interest shown in these novels by authors from other cultures. The study establishes the typology of the different uses of literary multilingualism present in the postmodern French novel. There is also a focus on the multiple functions of multilingual terms and its contributions to contemporary French literature. Finally, it analyses the special relevance of multilingualism in the presentation of a pluralistic and multicultural world in the most current literature, as well as the presence of specific narrative languages, characteristic of hypermodernity’s realities.

Keywords : Postmodernity; 20th and 21st centuries French narrative; narrative languages; multilingualism; multiculturalism.