La Nouvelle-Orléans, miroir des angoisses de l’Amérique ?The Not Yet, roman dystopique de Moira Crone
Taking as a point of departure Cécilia Camoin’s study of theatricality in Louisiana, this article sets out to examine the ways in which space “signifies” in Moira Crone’s post-apocalyptic novel The Not Yet, published in 2012. New Orleans stands out as a liminal space par excellence, fostering as it...
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| description | Taking as a point of departure Cécilia Camoin’s study of theatricality in Louisiana, this article sets out to examine the ways in which space “signifies” in Moira Crone’s post-apocalyptic novel The Not Yet, published in 2012. New Orleans stands out as a liminal space par excellence, fostering as it does a dialectics of inclusion and exclusion that interrogates the frontiers between life and death while foregrounding processes of hybridization and carnivalization. The climactic performance of the “Sim Verite” appears as the hyperbolic expression of a world that delights in reenacting its deepest anxieties over and over again in order to cheat death itself. Through this representation of New Orleans, Crone eventually articulates the tension between the same and the other that informs Louisiana’s ambivalent position towards the rest of the United States. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c77179ca4d4f4464ba4230c5a0b85cfd2022-12-22T02:35:45ZengLaboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA)E-REA1638-17182016-12-011410.4000/erea.5319La Nouvelle-Orléans, miroir des angoisses de l’Amérique ?The Not Yet, roman dystopique de Moira CroneStéphanie DURRANSTaking as a point of departure Cécilia Camoin’s study of theatricality in Louisiana, this article sets out to examine the ways in which space “signifies” in Moira Crone’s post-apocalyptic novel The Not Yet, published in 2012. New Orleans stands out as a liminal space par excellence, fostering as it does a dialectics of inclusion and exclusion that interrogates the frontiers between life and death while foregrounding processes of hybridization and carnivalization. The climactic performance of the “Sim Verite” appears as the hyperbolic expression of a world that delights in reenacting its deepest anxieties over and over again in order to cheat death itself. Through this representation of New Orleans, Crone eventually articulates the tension between the same and the other that informs Louisiana’s ambivalent position towards the rest of the United States.http://journals.openedition.org/erea/5319Moira CronedystopiaNew Orleanspost-apocalyptic noveldeath |
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| title | La Nouvelle-Orléans, miroir des angoisses de l’Amérique ?The Not Yet, roman dystopique de Moira Crone |
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