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Fascicolo monografico | 22 | 2020
Articolo | Sur les pas de Louis-Philippe Dalembert. Un hommage à la carrière du « gavroche caraïbe »

Sur les pas de Louis-Philippe Dalembert. Un hommage à la carrière du « gavroche caraïbe »

Abstract

In 1982, the Haitian writer Louis-Philippe Dalembert published his first collection of poetry, Évangile pour les miens. It was the beginning of a prolific, multiform, and successful career. During the next thirty years, he has published four other poetry collections, four collections of short stories, ten novels, and numerous essays. Intended as a tribute to Dalembert’s literary work, this article will try to describe the evolution of his production in verse and prose. In particular, three recurrent themes will be discussed: 1) the elaboration in his first texts of a system of rememorating strategies that will lead to the formulation of the notion of ‘pays-temps’; 2) the use of an urban setting, namely the borough, to convey the collective values of the community; 3) the birth, in his late publications, of a universal poetics transcending any type of border.


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Presentato: 28 Giugno 2020 | Accettato: 07 Agosto 2020 | Pubblicato 22 Dicembre 2020 | Lingua: fr

Keywords Louis-Philippe Dalembert • Haitian literature • Vagabondage • Migrant literature • Universal poetics

Copyright © 2020 Silvia Boraso. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2020/22/032


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