Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Abstract
This article analyses how Fignolé’s book puts into words an unbearable state sprung from the chaos of slavery. This is an oxymoronic writing experience, because how can the unspeakable be named? Writing is not thought here, but rather a driving force digging into an intimate movement of rebellion and using language in a glib form, free from conscious meaning and logic, in order to reveal a preconscious meaning. The writer then becomes an archaeologist of pain. He tries to transcribe the scream in splintered space and time, so that memory finds landmarks once again. Writing thus becomes an experience aiming to give shape to a gestative past.
Recommended Citation
Serrano, Lucienne J.
(2004)
"Par-delà le chaos : Aube tranquille de Jean-Claude Fignolé,"
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 63:
No.
1, Article 8.
Available at:
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol63/iss1/8
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