Since Homer, exile is closely linked to literature and even seems to be consubstancial to the very act of writing. Indeed, countless writers have created in exsilio; one just has to think, among others, of Marot, Du Bellay, Madame de Stael, Victor Hugo or Soljenitsyne. The unbearable feeling of loss and relinquishment provoked by transhumance added to the inevitable solitude are determining factors leading to the creative process. Neo-Quebecois writers are undoubtedly part of this line of expatriate authors. Often autobiographical in nature, their work generally describe the migratory journey of misfits trying to make Quebec culture their own. However, it is difficult to be a foreigner in a society which is asserting its own identity, in this case quite problematic, and the passage from outsider to insider is even more so. In this thesis, the idea of transculturation conceptualised by Fernando Ortiz as well as the Freudian concept of unheimlich (uncanniness) will be applied to the works of Regine Robin, Emile Ollivier, Ying Chen, Sergio Kokis and Mona Latif-Ghattas. The object of this essay is to demonstrate that writing is in fact the sole means for the protagonists to reach a total introjection of space and to find order in the scattered components of their fragmented identity.

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