Les éléments naturels et leur interaction dans l'écriture de Maryse Condé.
The work of the Guadeloupian author Maryse Condé is indicative of a highly animist Creole identity. Thus, the belief in a vital force that animates the natural elements is exacerbated through her writing. Nature embodies this refuge with which the Creole man needs to revitalise himself. Modernism is...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Murcia |
| Repositorio: | DIGITUM. Depósito Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Murcia |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digitum.um.es:10201/90611 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://doi.org/10.6018/ER/378061 http://hdl.handle.net/10201/90611 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Caribbean writing Natural elements Ecology Creole identity Tradition Modernism Écriture antillaise Éléments naturels Écologie Identité créole Modernisme CDU::8- Lingüística y literatura |
| Sumario: | The work of the Guadeloupian author Maryse Condé is indicative of a highly animist Creole identity. Thus, the belief in a vital force that animates the natural elements is exacerbated through her writing. Nature embodies this refuge with which the Creole man needs to revitalise himself. Modernism is seen as an environmental and identity threat, responsible for having broken the harmony that Antilleans maintained with nature. Natural disasters are perceived by the Condean characters as manifestations of the wrath of the elements, divine entities that they can’t control anymore after losing ancestral knowledge. However, the disasters inherent in the brutality of the Tropics give men the opportunity to rebuild everything on a new basis, their will to survive being always stronger than the feeling of despair. At the same time, they invite the reader to think about the global ecological crisis that we are experiencing. |
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