L’analyse hypertextuelle de L’Empreinte à Crusoé de Patrick Chamoiseau

• Authors: Masłowski Damian Paweł

Title variants

EN

HYPERTEXTUAL ANALYSIS OF PATRICK CHAMOISEAU’S CRUSOE’S FOOTPRINT

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

Over centuries, the subject of robinsonade does not seem to be a thoroughly investigated field in literary criticism. In this context, the role of Defoe’s work is still considered as the fundamental hypotext for every future robinsonade. Nevertheless, the twentieth century brings writers such as Michel Tournier, Patrick Chamoiseau or Yann Martel who began to transvalorize their robinsonades. This postmodern and sometimes postcolonial approach questions the topicality of modern and colonial masterpiece. In his recent novel, Patrick Chamoiseau explores the literary myth of Robinson Crusoe. He indicates the equiponderant influence of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Michel Tournier’s Friday, or, the Other Island. The purpose of this paper is to analyze said hypertextuality in Crusoe’s footprint. It attempts to focus notably on the dialogue between Chamoiseau and Tournier and to see Michel Tournier’s impact not only as the primordial hypotext in case of Crusoe’s footprint but also as the basic reference for robinsonades reversing the ideological message of Daniel Defoe’s text in the XXth and XXIth centuries.

Keywords

FR

robinsonnade; hypertextualité; Gérard Genette; Daniel Defoe; Michel Tournier; Patrick Chamoiseau

EN

robinsonade; hypertextuality; Gérard Genette; Daniel Defoe; Michel Tournier; Patrick Chamoiseau

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: Special Issue: Le monde de la litérrature
• Pages: 157-166

Contributors

author

Masłowski Damian Paweł

• Université Nicolas Copernic de Toruń, Departement des Lettres Modernes, Wydział Filologiczny UMK