no abstract

How to try the power and correctness of the language of this magnificent contour: "When we realise it or not, the fact that the unthinkable is there, whether it sets us impavid, reaches the shores of our fathers, hints the banks of our minds, conceals the escape until then without the contemporary s...

This reflection looks at the literary motive of the garden, drawing on the works of Claude Simon (Les Mariques, Le Jardin des Plants) and Patrick Chamoiseau (Texaco, Biblique des Later gestes). The garden, which is particularly relevant to the world, makes it necessary to take account of the commona...

Le présent article est une tentative de rapprocher la littérature francophone martiniquaise de la littérature sarde. Il se propose d’analyser de quelle manière les modèles esthétiques et idéologiques théorisés par les écrivains antillais peuvent être exportés hors de la Francophonie, et de montrer q...

The article deals with Chamoiseau’s Creole imaginary. The text especially presents and analyzes certain important issues with which Chamoiseau tries to cope all his life: the imaginary of Caribbean memory. In the novels Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows (1986), Slave Old Man (1997), Biblical Tales of t...

We present in this article one of the aspects emerging from the analysis of the translations of heterolingual literary texts: the explanatory dimension of the translated text [i]. Following Suchet (2010), we analyse the position of the person responsible for the target text or second statement and i...

ecocritics and the links between humanity and nature are the persistent themes in the work of the Martinian author Patrick Chamoiseau. In his first book, Chronique des seven miseres (1986), he wrote: ‘We need to accompany the energy of the brother world, not to submit it’ (Chronique 140), an argumen...

"Becoming Origin(al)" alludes to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's idea of "becoming minor" in Kafka: Toward a Theory of Minor Literature. This article will discuss Deleuze and Guattari's ideas in full, but the article will first set out to provide a context for thinking about postcolonial theory...

This study examines the literary motif of the garden in the works of Claude Simon (Les Géorgiques, Le Jardin des Plantes) and Patrick Chamoiseau (Texaco, Biblique des derniers gestes). Representative of a special relationship to the world, the garden reveals commonalities between the authors, howeve...

`titrebSummary`/titrebThe comparative reading of Jean Echenoz and Patrick Chamoiseau’s novels first addresses issuses such as the historic and esthetic concept of contemporary literature, the status of fiction and the novel as a genre in the current debates about the political dimension of literatur...

The earthquake of writing and the traces of orality at Edouard Glissant in the Caribean debates on the square de l’oralité The Antillean writers have developed a series of speeches that value orality. Colette Maximin pointed out that, as early as the 1930s, English-speaking intellectuals in the Cari...

A comparative reading of '' La Poudre d'intelligence'' by Kateb Yacine, Pélagie-La-Charette by Antonine Maillet, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie and Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau brings to light the crucial role of the contingencies that make humour trigger from a common context. As a process,...

This article examines how symbolic violence manifests itself in Acadian and Caribbean literatures. It is defined as the colonial legacy, related to a subjectivity and to what presided over the logic that structured the slave trade to the West Indies and the deportation of the Acadians out of their l...

In the context of a massive return of the notion of “fraternity” to the contemporary discourse, this article looks at two recent works of a new “fraternity literature”: Le Mot brother, Stéphane Bouquet (2005) and Frères migrants, Patrick Chamoiseau (2017). We first analyse how these texts put in pla...

This paper examines consecration mechanisms contributing to translation taking place from one local periphery in the global translation field, notably from French Caribbean literature, to another (semi-) periphery, Swedish literature. The translation bibliomigrancy of Dany Laferrière, Maryse Condé a...

In a 2007 text, the writer and former educator in Fleury-Mérogis Patrick Chamoiseau explains that the prison is ‘unrevealed’, highlighting here the difficulty of studying and rewriting the complexity of this total institution. This book explores the prison environment from an architectural perspecti...

"It is because there are no longer “Ailleurs”. The ancient barbaries, all summarised in the virulence of colonisations, had created lawlessness, “l’Ailleurs” outsiders, non-places, “outside the world”, or better “anti-world”, where we could enjoy leisure, consciousness and impunity. and illusory non...

Patrick Chamoiseau and the sea of stories from 8 to 10 October 2014 — University Toulouse Jean Jaurès Colloque International consult the colloquium programme here: prog_chamoiseau_de d’d organised by the LLA-Créatis team

"Remembrance of slavery: from cracking to repair "Monday 6 October, 20h Auditorium de l’Espace des diversiités et de la laïcité — 38, rue d’Aubuisson — Toulouse — Métro Jean Jaurès or François Verdier. Patrick Chamoiseau Free Entry is one of the largest contemporary French-speaking writers. He is th...

In a bilingual context, Antillean authors use a special style to reanimate the creole imagination. In this sense, Patrick Chamoiseau chose to steer his resistance in and through language. By introducing orality into his text and choosing hybridity as his personal stylistic feature, Chamoiseau claims...

This text seeks to show how Patrick Chamoiseau (born in Martinique in 1953) undertakes a rewriting of enslavement enslavement and archives in the novel Un Dimanche au cachot (2007), continuing on a topic that had already appeared in previous works. He carries out perworking work, in the freudian sen...

International audience