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Writing Women’S Mythology: The Poetry Of Eavan Boland And Louise Erdrich, Colleen Taylor Fcrh '12 Dec 2013

Writing Women’S Mythology: The Poetry Of Eavan Boland And Louise Erdrich, Colleen Taylor Fcrh '12

The Fordham Undergraduate Research Journal

Eavan Boland and Louise Erdrich are authors who write from very different cultures. Boland’s poetry explores Irish history while Erdrich’s traverses Native American culture and the Catholic religion. This polarity, however, is not so crucial when compared to the two poets’ striking similarities in voice and in subject. As women writers aligned with feminism, both Boland and Erdrich seek to express the female perspective and reverse centuries of women’s silence, and even more strikingly, they use the same medium to do so. Mythology is their instrument of choice, with Boland exploring Celtic folklore and Erdrich Native American legend. But these …


Généalogies De L'Errance, Cilas Kemedjio Dec 2013

Généalogies De L'Errance, Cilas Kemedjio

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The city narrative is Chamoiseau’s most original contribution to the west Indian worldview. Such writing is based on the poetics of creolity and on the memory of housing, visible in the ancestral hatred of dogs by municipal workers. It also builds up intertextual links which question both Cesairian Negritude and Glissant’s poetics. The historical memory of Chamoiseau’s characters and the intertextual links in his works transform his writings on townlife into a form of consolidation of a literary tradition which renews the genealogy of wandering life.


L’Empreinte Du Renard De Moussa Konaté Et Les Transformations Africaines Du Polar, Alexie Tcheuyap Dec 2013

L’Empreinte Du Renard De Moussa Konaté Et Les Transformations Africaines Du Polar, Alexie Tcheuyap

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Within sub-Saharan Africa, Moussa Konaté is undoubtedly the contemporary writer dedicated to producing the most original crime fiction. In L’empreinte du renard, he offers a fundamental subversion of the genre that breaks with conventional thought on crime narratives. Moreover, the subversion of the canon accompanies a subversion of political structures by which the end of the story accompanies the end of the postcolonial state as it is known, and often caricatured: the State of corruption. As a result, such intrigue also becomes that of governmentability.


La Condition Postmétisse, Célestin Monga Dec 2013

La Condition Postmétisse, Célestin Monga

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Patrick Chamoiseau’s thought has evolved considerably over the past twenty-five years. Whether it inscribes itself in the registers of utopia or counter-utopia, it has moved away from the linguistics issues of creoleness to acquire a humanistic thickness. It now advocates the advent of a global identity that could be viewed as “post-mestizo”. This essay analyzes its invocation of the Tout-Monde and its faith in a universal poetics of relation. It also assesses the empirical basis for his views in a world where nihilism appears to be the only credible virtue.


Patrick Chamoiseau Et La Poétique Du «Nomadismecirculaire», Samia Kassab-Charfi Dec 2013

Patrick Chamoiseau Et La Poétique Du «Nomadismecirculaire», Samia Kassab-Charfi

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

By advocating a fluid and metamorphic type of creolity, Patrick Chamoiseau has managed to distance himself from any claim to a particular identity. His latest poetics refute more than ever the elegy of origin and the celebration of race. In Glissant’s footsteps, he experiments with the notion of “circular nomadism”, which becomes a major rite of initiation for many of his characters. That same notion, at the heart of the amorous gravitation by which he unveils the treasures of his sentimenthèque, finally leads to an ethic of transformation, a kind of “eco-philosophy” where every exodus becomes an exordium, a new …


Archéologie Du Cachot, Lydie Moudileno Dec 2013

Archéologie Du Cachot, Lydie Moudileno

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This essay examines the relationship between writing, memory and prison, as it is deployed in Patrick Chamoiseau’s tenth novel Un dimanche au cachot (2007). In this text, the inscription of the writer within the space of a small prison located on a Martinican plantation, serves Chamoiseau’s larger project to survey the Caribbean territory in order to unveil memorial traces. As it exhumes the ruins of an old disciplinary prison cell, this archeological move triggers a series of crucial transformations: in Un dimanche au cachot, prison writing reclaims a new glissantian “Lieu”, while making room for a therapeutic way of dealing …


Le Miel De L’Alphabet. L’Autobiographie Archipélique De Patrick Chamoiseau, Renifleur D’Existence, Éric Hoppenot Dec 2013

Le Miel De L’Alphabet. L’Autobiographie Archipélique De Patrick Chamoiseau, Renifleur D’Existence, Éric Hoppenot

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Our study focuses on one of the autobiographical works of Chamoiseau Chemin d’école (1994). This particularly singular literary work breaks away from traditional autobiography: it is no more a question of telling the past in a narcissistic and nostalgic way, but it is about building a writing style open to dialogue. We shall show that the profound originality of this work lies mainly in a subversion of temporal process, in an enunciative duality and in an asserted exhibition of a poetic relationship with the world and languages. We shall pay particular attention to the way the narrator reveals his discovery …


La Parole Et Ses Impossibles, Guillaume Pigeard De Gurbert Dec 2013

La Parole Et Ses Impossibles, Guillaume Pigeard De Gurbert

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Chamoiseau’s literature attempts to articulate three impossibilities: to name what is indescribable, that is the “unhuman”; to tell the story of newly discovered living things; and to describe the original silence from outside. Thus, words are expressed through hiccoughs, traces and through words like “disons” which express inertia or sing the powers of the living and mumble the impotence of being.


Thanksgiving Day, Mike Vanden Bosch Dec 2013

Thanksgiving Day, Mike Vanden Bosch

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


I Recognized The Mitten, David Schelhaas Dec 2013

I Recognized The Mitten, David Schelhaas

Pro Rege

Erratum: Second page of poem missing. Corrected version published In Pro Rege, Vol. 42, No. 4, 34-35: http://digitalcollections.dordt.edu/pro_rege/vol42/iss4/6/


Rootrol, Joshua Matthews Dec 2013

Rootrol, Joshua Matthews

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


Just Phatic, Joshua Matthews Dec 2013

Just Phatic, Joshua Matthews

Pro Rege

Actual Title: (Just) Phatic


Just Plains Crazy, Howard Schaap Dec 2013

Just Plains Crazy, Howard Schaap

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


Making It Through, Jeri Schelhaas Dec 2013

Making It Through, Jeri Schelhaas

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


Receiving The John Calvin Award, Mary Dengler Dec 2013

Receiving The John Calvin Award, Mary Dengler

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


Reading Homer's Iliad, Mary Dengler Dec 2013

Reading Homer's Iliad, Mary Dengler

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


Thoughts Of Matthew Drissell At The Opening Reception For The Show Shelf Life, Matt Drissell Dec 2013

Thoughts Of Matthew Drissell At The Opening Reception For The Show Shelf Life, Matt Drissell

Pro Rege

Thoughts of Matthew Drissell at the opening reception for the show Shelf Life, Friday, February 1, 2013, in the Campus Center Gallery at Dordt College.


Poem On The Occasion Of Pastor Herm Van Niejenhuis’S Retirement, David Schelhaas Dec 2013

Poem On The Occasion Of Pastor Herm Van Niejenhuis’S Retirement, David Schelhaas

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


Morning Shower, Bob De Smith Dec 2013

Morning Shower, Bob De Smith

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


Ordinary Time, Leah A. Zuidema Dec 2013

Ordinary Time, Leah A. Zuidema

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


Comforts, James C. Schaap Dec 2013

Comforts, James C. Schaap

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


Swimming Lessons, Bill Elgersma Dec 2013

Swimming Lessons, Bill Elgersma

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


Long Jog, Joshua Matthews Dec 2013

Long Jog, Joshua Matthews

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


Poetry, Bob De Smith Dec 2013

Poetry, Bob De Smith

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


Loaf-Shapes In Tucson, Jeri Schelhaas Dec 2013

Loaf-Shapes In Tucson, Jeri Schelhaas

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


Brother's Dying, Mary Dengler Dec 2013

Brother's Dying, Mary Dengler

Pro Rege

No abstract provided.


Oklahoma Windscape, Fred Alsberg Nov 2013

Oklahoma Windscape, Fred Alsberg

Westview

No abstract provided.


Cashmere Sweater: A History, Daniel Schwarz Nov 2013

Cashmere Sweater: A History, Daniel Schwarz

Westview

No abstract provided.


The Dawn Of A New Day, Jacqueline Hainta Nov 2013

The Dawn Of A New Day, Jacqueline Hainta

Westview

No abstract provided.


A Trifle, Ivor C. Treby Nov 2013

A Trifle, Ivor C. Treby

Westview

No abstract provided.