Tels des astres éteints de Léonora Miano : habiter un nom, habiter une peau
In her novel Tels des astres éteints, Léonora Miano creates an onomastic game haunted by questions of belonging and identity. Overinvested with meaning, the forenames of the three protagonists, all products of the African diaspora, reveal something of their past lives and their destinies. The lack o...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Asociación de Francesistas de la Universidad Española (AFUE)
2013-11-01
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| Series: | Çédille: Revista de Estudios Franceses |
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| Online Access: | http://cedille.webs.ull.es/M3/09-mallart.pdf |
| Summary: | In her novel Tels des astres éteints, Léonora Miano creates an onomastic game haunted by questions of belonging and identity. Overinvested with meaning, the forenames of the three protagonists, all products of the African diaspora, reveal something of their past lives and their destinies. The lack of a surname also testifies to their deracination, sought after or suffered. The « intimate drama » of these drifters, which flirts with madness, even, is expressed in part by the issue of naming, enabling the writer to speak of the difficulty of inhabiting a «black skin» today, but above all revealing the impossibility of defining any identity. |
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| ISSN: | 1699-4949 |