Wonders of the Waking World: Exploring the Subject in Maryse Condé's Traversée de la Mangrove
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-miami12487361762021-08-03T05:40:48Z Wonders of the Waking World: Exploring the Subject in Maryse Condé's Traversée de la Mangrove Wahl, Jennifer L. Caribbean Literature Literature Philosophy Womens Studies Maryse Conde Traversee de la Mangrove Caribbean literature Women's Studies Francophone Deleuze Badiou Maryse Condé’s novel Traversée de la Mangrove follows the people of a small, fictional town in Guadeloupe on a long night’s journey through the funeral wake of one of their most notorious, and enigmatic, citizens – a man known as Francis Sancher. The novel sets forth a dizzying topography, of individuals and islands, paths and blind alleys through the life of the deceased and the lives of those whom his influence forever changed. As at all wakes, however, the man at its center has no voice of his own. Rather, he is reconstructed and reanimated by the testimony of others. Through the optic of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s “rhizomatic” theory of literature, I examine Condé’s re-membering of Sancher through the voices of those in his community. In the novel, subjectivity does not rely solely upon social class or racial identity but is constructed by each individual through a process of self-examination and envisioning the future. 2009-07-29 English text Miami University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1248736176 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1248736176 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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