L'onomastique comme potique de la (d) construction identitaire dans Tels des astres teints de Lonora Miano
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6150676 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nathalie Etoke (0009-0002-9196-611X, Connecticut College in New London., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 613-638 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Francophone Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-2679 • E-ISSN: 1758-9142 |
| Publisher | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/ijfs.12.4.613/1 |
| OpenAlex | W1971404754 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
Who am I is a question often asked in African, African American and Afro-Caribbean literatures. Lonora Miano answers this question of identity crisis in Tels des astres teints by exploring the intricacies of naming and identity of Diasporic Sub-Saharan Africans within the French space. Naming becomes a performative act, which defines the script of existence. The onomastics at work in Tels des astres teints operates as a poetic of identity (de) construction transforming the dichotomization of collective history and personal history into a transcendental mode of reasoning that attemps to negotiate historical tragedy and breakages of the self. This study offers an approach of self-knowing through naming. The act of naming gives birth to a concrete and abstract reality that operates from a psychological fracture. A productive tension dwells within this fracture that it is necessary to understand. Structuring her story through free adaptation of jazz themes, Miano displays a dissonant and resilient narrative polyphony through which identity belongs to the realm of becoming
Aesthetics · Art · Ethnology · Humanities · Identity (music · Identity negotiation · Literature · Narrative · Negotiation · Sociology · African history and culture studies · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |