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- Title
Odyssey of a double consciousness: commonalities and disjunctions in contemporary French Caribbean and Réunionese novels.
- Authors
Maunier, Priscilla
- Abstract
Despite their geographical distance, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Réunion tend to produce literary texts with striking commonalities. This can be explained to some extent by the islands' shared experience of slavery and French colonialism and their subsequent 1946 departmentalization. This common background has allowed the development of a literature which foregrounds an acutely felt need to redefine an island identity. This article explores the intermediary position of the characters in Guadeloupean Gisèle Pineau's L'Exil selon Julia and Chair piment, Martinican Tony Delsham's Négropolitains et Euro-blacks, and Réunionese Axel Gauvin's Faims d'enfance and Train fou, as the latter negotiate between historic amnesia and cultural memory in an attempt to achieve what Roland Walter calls a double vision.
- Subjects
MULTIPLE personality; FRENCH-speaking Caribbean; SLAVERY; IMPERIALISM; AMNESIA
- Publication
International Journal of Francophone Studies, 2005, Vol 8, Issue 2, p165
- ISSN
1368-2679
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/ijfs.8.2.165/1