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An Open Access edition of this work is available on Modern Languages Open (https://www.modernlanguagesopen.org/). On 12 March 2018, Mauritius celebrated fifty years as an independent nation amidst much fanfare. Yet behind the nation's official image of multicultural 'unity in diversity' lurk deep socio-economic inequalities and inter-ethnic tensions that are insistently critiqued in its literature. Against this backdrop, this book analyses how the idea of belonging - a sense of attachment to, and identification with, a place or people - is problematised in a range of contemporary francophone Mauritian novels. The island-nation's complex history and the multi-ethnic composition of its modern-day population mean that belonging is a central but fraught issue in both reality and fiction. Waters explores how diverse forms of affirmative, affective belonging intersect with, and are frequently inhibited by, exclusionary 'politics of belonging' at communal, national or international levels. Using an eclectic theoretical approach to the central concept of belonging, Waters offers in-depth textual analyses of novels by leading Mauritian writers Nathacha Appanah, Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, Bertrand de Robillard, Amal Sewtohul and Carl de Souza. Despite their thematic and formal diversity, these novels are shown to be characterised by a common rejection of dominant discourses of ethnic, diasporic affiliation and by a common commitment to the ongoing, future-orientated project of Mauritian nationhood. As such, this book offers an original insight into the dynamics of belonging and exclusion in diverse, multi-ethnic societies.

Mauritian fiction (French) --- Group identity in literature. --- History and criticism. --- French fiction --- Mauritian literature (French) --- Group identity in literature --- Multiculturalism --- Belonging --- Contemporary literature --- nationhood --- unity --- diversity --- francophone Mauritian literature --- exclusion --- Unity in diversity --- Postcolonial nationhood

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This collection of essays aims to contribute to scholarship already published in Translation Studies and Postcolonial Studies, endeavouring to question the traditional divide between these two academic strands and to bring them closer together in creative ways, across several geographical regions, linguistic contexts and historical circumstances. Moving away from a binary and dichotomous approach, the authors address these questions that link linguistic heterogeneity, postcolonial resistance and border identities. How does translation as a process operate across different linguistic and cultural spaces? How do translated selves negotiate meaning simultaneously across multiple linguistic borders? For the sake of cohesion, the geopolitical zones of translational contact have been limited to two colonial/European languages, namely French and English. The regional languages involved cover postcolonial, cultural spaces where Mauritian, Haitian, Reunionese and Louisianian Creole, Gikuyu, Wolof, Swahili and Arabic are spoken. Enrichir la recherche en études postcoloniales et en traduction est le but de ce volume qui s’efforce de mettre en question la division traditionnelle de ces deux champs disciplinaires et de les rapprocher de façon créatrice, par-delà les situations géographiques, les contextes linguistiques et les circonstances historiques. S’éloignant d’une approche binaire qui ne serait que dichotomique, les auteurs examinent les liens complexes entre hétérogénéité linguistique, résistance postcoloniale et identités aux frontières. De quelle façon la traduction en tant que processus fonctionne-t-elle à travers plusieurs espaces linguistiques et culturels ? Comment le sens est-il négocié à l’intersection de multiples frontières linguistiques ? Pour respecter la cohésion du volume les zones de contact géopolitiques ont été limitées à l’anglais et au français. Les langues régionales telles qu’elles sont analysées ici dans leurs échanges avec ces langues européennes…

Linguistics --- traduction --- Méditerranée --- Afrique --- Atlantique --- Océanie --- postcolonial --- océan indien --- multilingue --- translation --- Mediterranean --- Africa --- Atlantic --- Atlantic Ocean --- Oceania --- Indian Ocean --- multilingual