Le Jardin caraïbe, la Roche écrite et la Pierre-monde Tracées amérindiennes dans l’œuvre de Patrick Chamoiseau

While they are not particularly visible in the work of Patrick Chamoiseau, Amerindians still profoundly inform his reflection on the complexity of the relationship between memory and writing. This article follows different “Caribbean traces” in four texts by the West Indian writer and studies how Amerindian “presence-absence” accompanies him throughout his artistic and intellectual journey, from thinking about Creoleness to a poetics of globality.