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- Title
KANAK IMAGINARIES: A SENSE OF PLACE IN THE WORK OF DÉWÉ GÖRÖDÉ.
- Authors
RAMSAY, RAYLENE
- Abstract
The study of the Kanak imaginary in the work of the irst published Kanak (indigenous) New Caledonian writer shows this to be permeated by a sense of place. Rootedness in, and intense community with the land is not incompatible with the luidity of ancestral criss-crossing of the Paciic or of constant border-crossing (pathways of exchange between groups) but nonetheless remains central. he 'hinterland' constituted by the places of the tribu (customary lands) sets up a challenge to the dominance of Nouméa la blanche and Déwé Görödé's articulation of places of identity renegotiate the urban/regional or Noumea/ Bush/Tribu nexus to counterbalance or contest national (French) imaginaries. Yet Görödé's work presents both a return to a Kanak Place to Stand and a critical self in process (the latter situated in a 'no man's land'). he places in her work are ultimately 'cognitively dissonant': the marginal or hinterland of Kanak imaginaries (the tribu), can hold (to) their own both outside and inside the city, yet also open themselves up internally to multiplicity and critique.
- Subjects
NEW Caledonia; KANAKA (New Caledonian people); SOCIAL groups research; TRIBES; GORODE, Dewe
- Publication
Imaginations Journal, 2014, Vol 5, Issue 1, p10
- ISSN
1918-8439
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.17742/IMAGE.periph.5-2.2