Petite note sur notre condition d’exilés

• Main Author: Cristina Robalo Cordeiro
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Association Portugaise d'Etudes Françaises 2017-04-01
• Series: Carnets
• Subjects: literature teaching; themes; technology; symbolic; idealism
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/carnets/2280

Before the moral crisis attaining him/her in our present days, the teacher of literature, used to wield a real power over the whole variety of themes treated by generations of writers, such as Exile. But things have changed. Exile, as prestigious as it appeared in the catalogues of the publishers, is no longer what it was! The striking shortening of distances, the quick fading of the very idea of « homeland », denounces the literary and symbolic essence of Exile. If some genuine exiled people still exist in our globalized world, they are to be found in the class-rooms where literature is taught, among us, teachers.