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dc.identifier	ECF_article_9809
dc.title	La Lézarde (1958) and Malemort (1975) by Édouard Glissant: Telling the Archipelago Aesthetics from Martinique and the Caribbean Area
dc.contributor.author	Rhimi Mohamed Lamine
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Venice University Press, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Research Article
dc.language.iso	fr
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/il-tolomeo/2022/1/la-lezarde-1958-et-malemort-1975-dedouard-glissant/
dc.description.abstract	In this work, we will mainly focus on Edouard Glissant’s archipelago aesthetics. Indeed, the West Indian novelist-orator uses in La Lézarde (1958) and Malemort (1975) a kind of rhetoric which reflects not only the history of the slave trade, but also the Caribbean island landscape. This is how the writer cultivates Caribbean ethnopoetics, without falling into the trap of standardisation or reductionism. In others words, the fiery indictment that the writer has drawn up against the oppressors is inextricably linked to a plea made to defend the cause of West Indian culture, by exhorting the Caribbean people to recover their historical memory and to take their destiny into their own hands. It is specifically in that context that the Edouard Glissant’s romantic epic and sublime beauty are fully in line with his archipelago aesthetics.
dc.relation.ispartof	Il Tolomeo
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 24 \| December 2022
dc.issued	2022-12-19
dc.dateAccepted	2022-09-29
dc.dateSubmitted	2022-07-07
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	10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2022/01/018
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Archipelago aesthetics
dc.subject	Caribbean ethnopoetics
dc.subject	Edouard Glissant
dc.subject	La Lézarde
dc.subject	Malemort
dc.subject	Romantic epic
dc.subject	Sublime beauty

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La Lézarde (1958) and Malemort (1975) by Édouard Glissant: Telling the Archipelago Aesthetics from Martinique and the Caribbean Area

Mohamed Lamine Rhimi University of Tunis, Tunisia

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In this work, we will mainly focus on Edouard Glissant’s archipelago aesthetics. Indeed, the West Indian novelist-orator uses in La Lézarde (1958) and Malemort (1975) a kind of rhetoric which reflects not only the history of the slave trade, but also the Caribbean island landscape. This is how the writer cultivates Caribbean ethnopoetics, without falling into the trap of standardisation or reductionism. In others words, the fiery indictment that the writer has drawn up against the oppressors is inextricably linked to a plea made to defend the cause of West Indian culture, by exhorting the Caribbean people to recover their historical memory and to take their destiny into their own hands. It is specifically in that context that the Edouard Glissant’s romantic epic and sublime beauty are fully in line with his archipelago aesthetics.

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Dec. 19, 2022

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Sept. 29, 2022

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July 7, 2022

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Keywords: Edouard Glissant • Caribbean ethnopoetics • Malemort • Romantic epic • La Lézarde • Sublime beauty • Archipelago aesthetics

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