Déformer le réel, un mode de représentation de la ligne de couleur, du genre et des subalternités dans un roman mauricien et un roman réunionnais

• Authors: Sandrine Bertrand

Title variants

EN

Deform reality, a mode of representation color line, gender and subalternity in mauritian and reunionese novels.

PL

Déformer le réel, un mode de représentation de la ligne de couleur, du genre et des subalternités dans un roman mauricien et un roman réunionnais

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

Moi, l’interdite written by the Mauritian Ananda Devi and Femme sept peaux, written by the Reunionese Monique Séverin represent in original manner subalternities due to color line and gender in hierarchy colonial discourse. These novels stage female narrator’s “agency” as a ghost and as a werewolf. The ghost Mrs Joseph changes other female Black character’s colonial ideology. So she obtains the discourse of power, the discourse of knowledge in the creole songs. In narrative Moi, l’interdite, Indian narrator mixes several type of narrative, diary, werewolf legend and tale in order to represent her subalternity, her monstrosity. She inverts the orientalist vision and presents another face of Indian woman in Mauritius Island. Consequently, these texts account for complexities in postcolonial realities as concerned the women black, indian, creole, chinese and metis subaltern.

PL

Moi, l’interdite written by the Mauritian Ananda Devi and Femme sept peaux, written by the Reunionese Monique Séverin represent in original manner subalternities due to color line and gender in hierarchy colonial discourse. These novels stage female narrator’s “agency” as a ghost and as a werewolf. The ghost Mrs Joseph changes other female Black character’s colonial ideology. So she obtains the discourse of power, the discourse of knowledge in the creole songs. In narrative Moi, l’interdite, Indian narrator mixes several type of narrative, diary, werewolf legend and tale in order to represent her subalternity, her monstrosity. She inverts the orientalist vision and presents another face of Indian woman in Mauritius Island. Consequently, these texts account for complexities in postcolonial realities as concerned the women black, indian, creole, chinese and metis subaltern.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański
• Journal: Cahiers ERTA
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 129-142

Dates

published

2013-06-01

Contributors

author

Sandrine Bertrand