Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Abstract
The criticism has rarely studied the Caribbean sentimental novel. This article examines some of the terms of the writing of love among some writers of the Caribbean (Thérèse Herpin, Irmine Romanette, Marie Berté, Simone Schwarz-Bart, Gisèle Pineau, Marie Chauvet, Marie-Célie Agnant, Kettly Mars, etc.) in order to identify significant configurations. Indeed, while novelists incorporate several characteristics of the canonical sentimental novel, we can also detect in these texts miscegenation semiotics which link them both to the sentimental novel as a genre, to the realistic classic novel, and to the conventions of exotic literature and tales. Thus emerges in this corpus what might be called the imaginary of the fish lover, born of the encounter with traditional tales and conventions of popular literature.
Recommended Citation
Ndiaye, Christiane
(2009)
"L’imaginaire du poisson amoureux chez les romancières francophones de la Caraïbe,"
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 72:
No.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol72/iss1/4
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