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Trois nécessités allégoriques pour neuf consciences - La poétique romanesque de Patrick Chamoiseau dans Les Neuf Consciences du malfini

  • Journal: Romanesques
    2014, Hors-série    . Animaux d’écritures : le lien et l’abîme
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  • Abstract: By developing what Glissant has called a “writing of relation”, Chamoiseau attains a synthesis of both species and sense in the novel. His writing makes use of allegory, a way for postcolonial literature to think about unknown origins without getting entrapped in a discourse of opposition. Allegory incorporates three necessities – abstraction, anonymity, and distancing – which un-writes history by decentring the human. It can also give speech to the voiceless animal: here, the Malfini chronicles its evolution.
  • Number of pages: 198
  • ISBN: 978-2-8124-3365-8
  • ISSN: 2271-7242
  • DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-8124-3365-8.p.0093
  • Publisher: Classiques Garnier
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