Two views of an inevitable catastrophe that did not take place: Werner Herzog and Daniel Maximin on Guadeloupe, 1976
This article interrogates the mechanics of catastrophe narration. Rather than doing so through the examination of a celebrated histor- ical orfictional catastrophe, it takes two responses to a catastrophe which did not, in the end, take place: the 1976 non-eruption of the volcano La Soufrière on Gua...
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| description | This article interrogates the mechanics of catastrophe narration. Rather than doing so through the examination of a celebrated histor- ical orfictional catastrophe, it takes two responses to a catastrophe which did not, in the end, take place: the 1976 non-eruption of the volcano La Soufrière on Guadeloupe. Thefirst is Werner Herzog’sLa Soufrièrewhich, from an outsider’s perspective, stages fascination and disappointment on behalf of a global audience. The second, Guadeloupian author Daniel Maximin’s1987novelSoufrières,uses multiple narrative strands to represent the non-eruption, and thus unlock a longer history of local and global colonial and postcolonial violence. The fact that there was, in fact, no spectacular climax to the events of 1976 permits a focus on other,“slower”narratives which might have been obscured by clouds of gas and outpourings of lava. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:87d43336-94c5-43bc-b64e-c3c4631e3ff52022-03-26T22:13:11ZTwo views of an inevitable catastrophe that did not take place: Werner Herzog and Daniel Maximin on Guadeloupe, 1976Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:87d43336-94c5-43bc-b64e-c3c4631e3ff5Symplectic Elements at OxfordTaylor and Francis2019Stacey, JThis article interrogates the mechanics of catastrophe narration. Rather than doing so through the examination of a celebrated histor- ical orfictional catastrophe, it takes two responses to a catastrophe which did not, in the end, take place: the 1976 non-eruption of the volcano La Soufrière on Guadeloupe. Thefirst is Werner Herzog’sLa Soufrièrewhich, from an outsider’s perspective, stages fascination and disappointment on behalf of a global audience. The second, Guadeloupian author Daniel Maximin’s1987novelSoufrières,uses multiple narrative strands to represent the non-eruption, and thus unlock a longer history of local and global colonial and postcolonial violence. The fact that there was, in fact, no spectacular climax to the events of 1976 permits a focus on other,“slower”narratives which might have been obscured by clouds of gas and outpourings of lava. |
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| title | Two views of an inevitable catastrophe that did not take place: Werner Herzog and Daniel Maximin on Guadeloupe, 1976 |
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| title_short | Two views of an inevitable catastrophe that did not take place: Werner Herzog and Daniel Maximin on Guadeloupe, 1976 |
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