Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Abstract
André Schwarz-Bart’s literary call was born from his will to immortalize in writing the memory of the culture of his Jewish ancestors which was eradicated from the map of Europe during the Shoa. A pioneer of the “memory work” with The Last of the Justs, a novel awarded the Goncourt in 1959, he invented the genre of the “identity saga” whose heroes gather within themselves the centuriesold experience of their people. A similar ambition guided him while he composed a cycle – that remained mostly unpublished – about Black slavery and the culture issued from it: A Woman Named Solitude.
Recommended Citation
Kaufmann, Francine
(2012)
"Le projet judéo-noir d’André Schwarz-Bart : saga réversible,"
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 79:
No.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol79/iss1/6
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