Just a Case of Mistaken Ancestors? Dramatizing Modernisms in Maryse Condé's Heremakhonon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4389496 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eva Sansavior (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 221-234 |
| Publication date | 2014-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Paragraph (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0264-8334 • E-ISSN: 1750-0176 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/para.2014.0123 |
| OpenAlex | W2034444970 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
The marked intertextual patterning of Maryse Condé's first novel Heremakhonon is a widely acknowledged feature, with the relationship between Condé's novel and Aimé Césaire's Notebook of a Return to my Native Land attracting the bulk of critical attention. Through close readings of to date unexamined dramatic codes in Heremakhonon, this article proposes to extend the cultural context in which Condé's text is traditionally read. Moving beyond the standard critical discussions of authenticity, I track Heremakhonon's mobile positionings in relation to polarizing debates in the broader French literary-critical field between engagement and modernism. This focus allows for an exploration of the complex sets of relationships between the cultures of modernism and engagement that provide the conditions of possibility for Condé's novel
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Literature · African history and culture studies · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Computer Science · History · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |