Les métaphores océaniques et la subjectivité métisse dans l’œuvre de Roland Brival
The water plays an inescapable role in the History of the Caribbean. As Aimé Césaire remarks, the first colons were adventurers, buccaneers who crossed the sea with a mission to rape the earth and its men and women. The ocean was a vector, which lead to the first genocide in history. The imagery of...
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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/6348 |
| Summary: | The water plays an inescapable role in the History of the Caribbean. As Aimé Césaire remarks, the first colons were adventurers, buccaneers who crossed the sea with a mission to rape the earth and its men and women. The ocean was a vector, which lead to the first genocide in history. The imagery of water is abundant in the works of Roland Brival: his novels are infused with the ancestral memory linked to the “middle passage.” He also introduces metis characters whose identity is infused by the components of the liquid element. Their body and identity become an archetypical extension of the water. They are attracted by the sea, which invites the multiplicity of self. The water enables them to “conjugate” all the potential identities unlike the life on earth, which imposes an identitarian anchoring. This article also presents the water as an accomplice in sexual encounters. Characters often meet by the river, the spring water, the sea, and the ocean. The water represents the ideal space par excellence for the metis protagonists. The hybrid body, identity, and the waters share the violence of history, the “third space,” the ever-changing and the unfeasibility of closure. The metaphors of water brand the texts of Roland Brival and reveal the complexity of the hybrid body and identity. |
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| ISSN: | 1779-0980 1961-859X |