De l'actualité à l'actualisation dans Traversée de la Mangrove et La vie sans fards de Maryse Condé

Authors

Karine Gendron, Université Laval

Abstract

After studying the narrative figures at work in Maryse Condé's novels Traversée de la Mangrove (1989) and La vie sans fards (2012), our article questions the obvious valorization of stories and of storytelling shown as ambiguous in the textual space, because they are shown as indefinite, polysemic and uncertain. In the textual universe, the ambiguous narrative is especially sought after because it is updatable, by the enunciator as much as by the instance addressed. We suggest that this characteristic of the ambiguous and renewable story and of storytelling is also performed in Maryse Condé' works. In our view, this corresponds to a form of narrative ethics that the author has chosen in her literary practice.

Recommended Citation

Gendron, Karine (2019) "De l'actualité à l'actualisation dans Traversée de la Mangrove et La vie sans fards de Maryse Condé," Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 93: No. 1, Article 7.
Available at: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol93/iss1/7