Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies [Fires]

Rasha Chatta (Europe in the Middle East - The Middle East in Europe)

Ed. by Emir Delic, Université Sainte-Anne
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.4: Canadian Writing and Culture: Francophone .
Vol. editors: Emir Delic (Université Sainte-Anne), Eftihia Mihelakis (Brandon University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 2003

Places

Canada (Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Drama

Resources

Lebanese-Canadian Wajdi Mouawad’s play Incendies [Fires; translated into English under the title Scorched, 2005], published in 2003, forms the second part of a tetralogy titled Le sang des promesses [The Blood of Promises], other volumes of which include Littoral [Coastline] (1999), Forêts [Forests] (2006), and Ciels [Skies] (2009). Though each of these four dramatic units is a self-contained play which can be read independently from the other three, Mouawad notes that what reunites them is the underlying question of origin, a fundamental reflexion at the heart of his project (Mouawad, 2011: 9). A prolific dramaturge and novelist, Director of the Th&…

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Citation: Chatta, Rasha. "Incendies". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 June 2018 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35612, accessed 20 April 2024.]

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