Journal | Il Tolomeo
Journal issue | 21 | 2019
Research Article | L’humanisme panaméricain de Jacques Stephen Alexis

L’humanisme panaméricain de Jacques Stephen Alexis

Abstract

This essay analyses Jacques Stephen Alexis’ masterpiece Romancero aux étoiles (1960), which can be considered as a practical application of his sociopoetic theories for a Panamerican humanism. Indeed, in this collection of folktales, Alexis revolutionises the popular imaginary and the genres of orature, but he also reintroduces the Taino/Native contribution to the Haitian identity and culture, devoting two tales to two mythical Taino figures: the queen Anacaona and the viens-viens. The analysis of these two tales, “Dit de la Fleur d’Or” and “Le sous-lieutenant enchanté”, allows to understand the new conception developed by Alexis, that of the influence of orature in literature and also his openness to a pluriethnic and pluricultural Americanism.


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Submitted: May 22, 2019 | Accepted: July 31, 2019 | Published Dec. 19, 2019 | Language: fr

Keywords Haitian folktales • Romancero aux étoiles • Orature • Jacques Stephen Alexis • Anacaona

Copyright © 2019 Sara Del Rossi. 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/2499-5975/2019/01/016


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