Littératures caribéennes : écrire le présent dans les marges de la contre-histoire

For many years now, the return of colonial memory has become a crucial issue in France. Two Caribbean novels simultaneously published in 2007 by Jean-Claude Fignolé, from Haiti, and by Patrick Chamoiseau, from Martinique, re-write a form of counter-history related to the present or to literary memor...

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Main Author: Yolaine Parisot
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Pléiade (EA 7338) 2009-07-01
Series:Itinéraires
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/itineraires/299
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Summary:For many years now, the return of colonial memory has become a crucial issue in France. Two Caribbean novels simultaneously published in 2007 by Jean-Claude Fignolé, from Haiti, and by Patrick Chamoiseau, from Martinique, re-write a form of counter-history related to the present or to literary memory. But such scholarly writings have to be connected with the reappearance of popular genres such as the Haitian lodyans, a response to the post-dictatorial emergency.
ISSN:2427-920X