Vers une postmémoire de la migration. Lectures sociopoétiques du récit de filiation

This article explores the affinity of filiation stories with the phenomenon of migration. Oscillating between family biography and autobiography, this literary genre has over time become a privileged sphere for both intimate and universal reflection on the topics of exile and integration. Focusing on a recent work – La Mémoire délavée (2023) by Mauritian writer Nathacha Appanah – the article proposes a sociopoetic reading of the ambivalences inscribed into a postmemory of migration. It highlights how filiation narratives articulate individual and collective memory, while revealing the tensions between heritage, transmission, and identity reconstruction. This framework allows for an interrogation of contemporary narrative forms that give voice to migratory experiences, and for considering migration as a vector of literary and social transformation.