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Set in the midst of the twenty-first century refugee crisis Omar Ell Akkad’s 2021 novel What strange paradise centers on transgression, transcendence and performativity as it sends a deeply humanistic message which encapsulates a Canadian national narrative. Immigration, thought to be one of the pillars of Canadianness, is believed to be a very Canadian theme. El Akkad’s novel is indebted to the Canadian genre of the immigrant fiction, connected with Canadian history and the development of Canadian national identity but it is also a universal tale of multileveled nomadism as the human condition which shows various faces of displacement, examines mechanisms of (dis)othering and points out the necessity of performativity. The Canadian perspective is widened to embrace the global one.

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Transgression, (Dis)othering and the Canadian (National) Narrative—A Reading of What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad

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    2025年

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  • Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka

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Set in the midst of the twenty-first century refugee crisis Omar Ell Akkad’s 2021 novel What strange paradise centers on transgression, transcendence and performativity as it sends a deeply humanistic message which encapsulates a Canadian national narrative. Immigration, thought to be one of the pillars of Canadianness, is believed to be a very Canadian theme. El Akkad’s novel is indebted to the Canadian genre of the immigrant fiction, connected with Canadian history and the development of Canadian national identity but it is also a universal tale of multileveled nomadism as the human condition which shows various faces of displacement, examines mechanisms of (dis)othering and points out the necessity of performativity. The Canadian perspective is widened to embrace the global one.