The Space in the Novel of the Border

The topic of this dissertation is the study of space in the novel that arises from the migratory phenomenon, and it is based upon three literary works which belong to the literature of immigration of three countries: the beur literature in France, the literature of immigration of Haitian origin in Canada and the chicana literature in The United States of America. We have studied Le Gone du Chaâba written by Azouz Begag, Comment faire l’amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer by Dany Laferrière, and Peregrinos de Aztlán by Miguel Méndez. The topic of these novels is migration and the encounter between two cultures: it is also about the difficult process of assimilation/integration of characters within the foreign space. Then, the space under scrutiny is studied as the general space where foreigners arrive as much as the space of origin for them, starting first from the notions of inner and outer space. It is within this space of arrival that the encounter between foreigners and nationals occurs and is shown as collective representation.