Nord Perdu : témoignage de la surconscience linguistique et de l’étrangéité chez Nancy Huston

This article presents a literary criticism of linguistic and cultural hyperawareness –characteristic often associated with migrant writers– in Nancy Huston, through the analysis of her literature. From a corpus of representative works, we analyzed, with an integrative method, the writer’s essays in order to search in Nord perdu specially (one of her more autobiographical essays) the traces of the above-mentioned hyperawareness, often accompanied by literary multilingualism. The results of the study pointed out the existence of linguistic and cultural (strangeness) hyperawareness in Huston, and especially in the essay analyzed.