Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Abstract
There are many female characters with sick/mutilated bodies in Guadeloupe and Martinique’s female literature. Madness, anorexia, self-mutilation, even the suicide of these female characters not only denounce a repressive social order inherited from the history of slavery, but also represent means to affect a social environment that is not responsive to the female quest for identity. Madness, crisis or acts of self-mutilation allow them to escape (“marronnage”) a system, which tries to negate their very existence.
Recommended Citation
De Souza, Pascale
(2004)
"Folie de l'écriture, écriture de la folie dans la littératureféminine des Antilles françaises,"
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 63:
No.
1, Article 10.
Available at:
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol63/iss1/10
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