« Écrire veut dire greffer » Recomposition de l’identité amérindienne et dynamique de l’instable dans Le Bras coupé de Bernard Assiniwi

Le Bras coupé, Bernard Assiniwi’s novel published in 1976, is considered as the founding text of fictional Amerindian francophone writing. By connecting the notion of the “dynamics of the unstable” introduced by Lise Gauvin to describe of francophone American literatures to Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of “minor literatures”, this article demonstrates that the novel inscribes the recomposition of Amerindian identity in a poetics of duality and instability.