Compère Général Soleil de Jacques Stephen Alexis, entre chant de liberté et critique écopoétique
In Compère Général Soleil, the narrator describes Haitian socio-politic reality with a poetic language. He makes a link between political failure of corrupt elites and ecological degradation. Jacques Stephane Alexis is among the first writers in French speaking and Caribbean area who establishes suc...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Université des Antilles
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| Series: | Études Caribéennes |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/28735 |
| Summary: | In Compère Général Soleil, the narrator describes Haitian socio-politic reality with a poetic language. He makes a link between political failure of corrupt elites and ecological degradation. Jacques Stephane Alexis is among the first writers in French speaking and Caribbean area who establishes such a link. Ecopoetic interpretation offers us a fresh look towards his first fiction. Thanks to a close cultural relationship between Haitians and nature, a democratic future is imagined. The Anthropocene is also indirectly announced through the criticism of American occupation. |
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| ISSN: | 1779-0980 1961-859X |