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Âme mā’ohi et homoncules sans âme chez Titaua Peu

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Bousquet L.
Academic Journal of Modern Philology
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2024
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vol. Special Issue
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issue 21
117-126
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Titaua Peu uses her two novels, Mutismes E’ore te vāvā and Pina, to denounce colonialism’s ongoing deleterious effects on contemporary Tahitian society. In Pina, she introduces an unlikely spokesman, a mediocre middle-aged Parisian man, Michel, to pinpoint and condemn the foreigner’s misdeeds plaguing her island. Michel tells his unhappy story and the hopeful story of his ex-mistress, Hannah, unveiling the fundamental stakes involved in the mā’ohi’s struggle for emancipation. Through close textual analysis and the use of social, linguistic, and historical background information, this work will focus on Michel’s diatribe. I will question his role and responsibility in Hannah’s struggle, demonstrating how the empty self of the Western homunculus and the violent fathers of Polynesia are the ultimate perpetrators of this ongoing destruction.
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