Memories from the Margin and Counter-narratives: Patrick Chamoiseau and Conceição Evaristo
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.i32p111-124Keywords:
cultural memory, slavery, orality, Patrick Chamoiseau, Conceição EvaristoAbstract
Our article’s purpose is to question, by relying on Zilá Bernd’s theory (2017) on the function of the writer to fill in the memorial gaps, about the following works: Texaco (1992), Un dimanche au cachot (2007), L’esclave vieil homme et le molosse (1997) from Patrick Chamoiseau, and Becos da memória (2017) and Ponciá Vicêncio (2017) from Conceição Evaristo. We will complete our study with the analysis of two essays: Écrire en pays dominé (1997) de Chamoiseau et Le discours antillais (1997), d’Édouard Glissant. Firstly, this will allow us to reflect about the link between writing and resistance. Therefore, the figure of the writer who recovers and protects the silenciated narratives and stands as the voice of those who doesn’t have one. Its purpose seems to be the reconstitution of the diverse stories of the « forgotten » of the official history. We will also make a link between orality and collective memory, with the help of Jan Assman’s work (2002). That is why we will try to understand how it would be possible to draw common lines of research between the Caribbean and Brazil, which take the cultural and geographical differences into account, as well as they intend to bring together reflections about common thematical axes.
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