L’insularité chez Patrick Chamoiseau

• Main Author: Émilie Amand
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Association Portugaise d'Etudes Françaises 2015-02-01
• Series: Carnets
• Subjects: Chamoiseau (Patrick); novel; history; post-colonialism; insularity
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/carnets/1455

This article wants to show the importance of the insularity in the realization of an "against-history" existing under the official history, in two novels by Patrick Chamoiseau, Texaco and Biblique des derniers gestes. Even though the post-colonial context is a decisive parameter in this other perception of the world, the insularity has also a central place: it allows a detachment of the center’s domination on the one hand, and it transforms the Martinique in a point of forced meeting between different cultures on the other hand. These two elements take part in the putting in perspective of History.