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- Title
Relationality, Discontinuity, and (Hi)stories: The Errantry and Opacity of Maryse Condé's Desirada.
- Authors
Izquierdo, Amanda González
- Abstract
This article examines the ways in which Maryse Condé's Desirada is rhizomatic both thematically and formally. It argues that by portraying a protagonist in a multinational quest within a polyphonic narrative, Condé's text is reminiscent of Édouard Glissant's theories of errantry, Relation , opacity and transparency, and root and rhizome. I posit that the novel takes shape in, as, and through extension as it examines the ways in which rhizomatic thinking enables the construction of multiple, converging histories. Moreover, I demonstrate that these histories are valid and meaningful not in spite of their divergences, ambiguities, silences, and inaccessibilities, but precisely because of them.
- Subjects
DESIRADA (Book); CONDE, Maryse, 1937-; DISCONTINUITY (Philosophy); PHILOSOPHY in literature; SUICIDAL behavior; GLISSANT, Edouard, 1928-2011; TRANSNATIONALISM in literature
- Publication
Esprit Createur, 2021, Vol 61, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
0014-0767
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/esp.2021.0028