Messianic Nightmare: Border Poetics in Bouganim's Un Bâtard en Terre Promise

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Author(s): Mohamed Baya (Western University, Romania)
Copyright: 2026
Pages: 24
Source title: Identity and the Dynamics of Border Crossing
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Saad Boulahnane (Hassan I University, Morocco)
DOI: 10.4018/979-8-3373-2592-7.ch003

Keywords: General Law / Immigration & Migration / Information Science Reference / Knowledge Management and Library Science

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This chapter offers a border poetics analysis of Ami Bouganim's Un bâtard en terre promise (2018), revealing migration as an unending struggle marked by fractured identity and irretrievable loss. The novel's hybrid narrative mirrors the fragmented condition of exile through deliberate generic instability. Rather than presenting borders as transitional crossings, the text depicts them as sites of erosion—where displacement consumes rather than transforms. The novel confronts the existential burden of exile, presenting borders as forces that erode the self and complicate the diasporic experience.

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