La critique des littératures francophones et quelques-unes de ses fictions « modernes » et culturalistes : l’exemplarité de la fiction haïtienne contemporaine

Authors

Yolaine Parisot, Université Paris-Est Créteil (France)

Abstract

Critics of Francophone literature from the south have long Critics of Francophone literature from the South have long attracted several clichés or fictions around notions of nation, oral tradition, modernity, and culture. For a long time, they reproduced the hierarchies of Western literary genres and the exclusion of pop culture. However, contemporary critical discourses on literary fiction and fictionality in the Caribbean, Africa and the Indian Ocean literatures tend to renew this culturalist perspective. Heir to both the critical discourse of the 19th century and the local genre of Lodyans, ultra-contemporary Haitian fiction offers an epistemic exemplarity that undermines this discourse. By its power of ironization, it provides a thought of the contemporary which contradicts any ontologization of “cultural diversity”.

Recommended Citation

Parisot, Yolaine (2021) "La critique des littératures francophones et quelques-unes de ses fictions « modernes » et culturalistes : l’exemplarité de la fiction haïtienne contemporaine," Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 96: No. 1, Article 7.
Available at: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol96/iss1/7