Précarité, corps et aliment dans les récits de migration francophones / Precarity, Food and the Body in Francophone Migrant Narratives (Greensboro, Caroline du Nord)

Précarité, corps et aliment dans les récits de migration francophones

Precarity, Food and the Body in Francophone Migrant Narratives 

La session aura lieu dans le cadre du 20th/21st Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium: Justice

25-29 March, 2025 - Greensboro, USA

Contemporary francophone migrant literature provides a rich terrain for examining identity, displacement, and precarity. Within this genre, the body emerges as a focal point, a site of both struggle and resilience inherent in narratives of migration and belonging. Additionally, food functions as a critical motif, encapsulating the difficulties, nostalgia, and security linked to migrant experiences, and highlighting issues related to gender and class representation. 

This panel invites papers (in French or English) that explore the complex interplay between the body, food, and precarity within francophone migrant literature and shed light on their broader connections to work, class, gender, disability, justice, security and societal integration.

We welcome papers that engage with our topic from diverse perspectives such as (non-exhaustive list):

·      Food Memory and Nostalgia 

·      Traditions and Cultural Significance of Food 

·      Societal Integration, Food, and the Body 

·      Hunger and Precarity

·      Physical Markers of Precarity and Food Insecurity

·      Women and Food in the Context of Migration

·      Alcohol Consumption in the Context of Migration

·      Acquiring and Cooking Food in the Context of Migration

·      The Body, Food, and Social Class

·      Food, Generosity, and Community 

·      Etc. 

Please send your 250 abstract, along with a short bio and 5 keywords, to Dr Liza Bolen (liza.bolen@unb.ca) before August 25, 2024.