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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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-786172554cd74296b05eed2ad902cca02024-02-13T13:13:31ZengUniversité des AntillesÉtudes Caribéennes1779-09801961-859X1110.4000/etudescaribeennes.28735Compère Général Soleil de Jacques Stephen Alexis, entre chant de liberté et critique écopoétiqueFaouzia RighiIn 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.https://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/28735Jacques Stéphane Alexis-Haïti-ecofiction-nature-Policy |
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| title | Compère Général Soleil de Jacques Stephen Alexis, entre chant de liberté et critique écopoétique |
| title_full | Compère Général Soleil de Jacques Stephen Alexis, entre chant de liberté et critique écopoétique |
| title_fullStr | Compère Général Soleil de Jacques Stephen Alexis, entre chant de liberté et critique écopoétique |
| title_full_unstemmed | Compère Général Soleil de Jacques Stephen Alexis, entre chant de liberté et critique écopoétique |
| title_short | Compère Général Soleil de Jacques Stephen Alexis, entre chant de liberté et critique écopoétique |
| title_sort | compere general soleil de jacques stephen alexis entre chant de liberte et critique ecopoetique |
| topic | Jacques Stéphane Alexis-Haïti-ecofiction-nature-Policy |
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