Généalogies de l'errance

Authors

Cilas Kemedjio, University fo Rochester

Abstract

The city narrative is Chamoiseau’s most original contribution to the west Indian worldview. Such writing is based on the poetics of creolity and on the memory of housing, visible in the ancestral hatred of dogs by municipal workers. It also builds up intertextual links which question both Cesairian Negritude and Glissant’s poetics. The historical memory of Chamoiseau’s characters and the intertextual links in his works transform his writings on townlife into a form of consolidation of a literary tradition which renews the genealogy of wandering life.

Recommended Citation

Kemedjio, Cilas (2013) "Généalogies de l'errance," Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 81: No. 1, Article 9.
Available at: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol81/iss1/9