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dc.identifier	ECF_article_1137
dc.title	Diablesse de femme. De l’ethnographie à la narration, la métamorphose dans le conte folklorique haïtien
dc.contributor.author	Brunetto Veronica
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	fr
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/il-tolomeo/2017/1/diablesse-de-femme/
dc.description.abstract	Ethnographic and semiotic studies have one thing in common: they both share an interest in researching the origin of meaning and how meaning works in human behaviour or in human narration. The aim of this research is to show this connection through the semiotic and ethnographic analysis of metamorphosis. Namely, a collection of 60 haitian folktales, characterised by a metamorphosis in the narrative program, is analysed using Greimas’s veridictory square; then, the results are compared to the ethnographic studies about metamorphosis and to the practice of storytelling in Haitian culture. This comparison will prove that metamorphosis has similar qualities and similar meanings, such as the equality between the identity of men, animals and spirits, in both fields of study.
dc.relation.ispartof	Il Tolomeo
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 19 \| December 2017
dc.issued	2017-12-21
dc.dateAccepted	2017-09-17
dc.dateSubmitted	2017-08-24
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-5975
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/2499-5975/Tol-19-17-07
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Folktales
dc.subject	Folktales
dc.subject	Francophone literatures
dc.subject	Francophone literatures
dc.subject	Metamorphosis meaning
dc.subject	Metamorphosis meaning
dc.subject	Veridictory square
dc.subject	Veridictory square

Research Article
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Diablesse de femme

De l’ethnographie à la narration, la métamorphose dans le conte folklorique haïtien

Veronica Brunetto Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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abstract

Ethnographic and semiotic studies have one thing in common: they both share an interest in researching the origin of meaning and how meaning works in human behaviour or in human narration. The aim of this research is to show this connection through the semiotic and ethnographic analysis of metamorphosis. Namely, a collection of 60 haitian folktales, characterised by a metamorphosis in the narrative program, is analysed using Greimas’s veridictory square; then, the results are compared to the ethnographic studies about metamorphosis and to the practice of storytelling in Haitian culture. This comparison will prove that metamorphosis has similar qualities and similar meanings, such as the equality between the identity of men, animals and spirits, in both fields of study.

Published

Dec. 21, 2017

Accepted

Sept. 17, 2017

Submitted

Aug. 24, 2017

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Keywords: Veridictory square • Metamorphosis meaning • Francophone literatures • Folktales

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