Seventeenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

Abstract

Contemporary literature by authors emanating from the Muslim communities in France show ambivalence between the presence of many forms of silences, and that of a willful and very vocal expression of the self. One can wonder about is the quality of those silences? Who was silent, is still silent, and why? What voices have replaced those silences, and what messages do they carry? Are the silences conveyors of repression or wisdom? Are the voices, voices of anger or appeasement? This opposition sheds light on the experience of the Muslim communities in France. It will be studied in works by Tahar Ben Jelloun, Medhi Charef, Magyd Cherfi and Alice Zeniter.