Veillées noires in Comparison: Le Mariage de Malice and Quiproquo
The article compares two collections of stories. One is by Suzanne Comhaire Sylvain, Le roman de Bouqui (1940), the other by L. G. Damas, Veillées noires (1943). Both have been republished by the same publisher, Leméac (Canada), and from a very limited ‘sample’ (a single tale from each) I will draw...
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| الحاوية / القاعدة: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/archipelies, |
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| التنسيق: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| اللغة: | Anglais |
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Archipélies
2024
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | The article compares two collections of stories. One is by Suzanne Comhaire Sylvain, Le roman de Bouqui (1940), the other by L. G. Damas, Veillées noires (1943). Both have been republished by the same publisher, Leméac (Canada), and from a very limited ‘sample’ (a single tale from each) I will draw out the universal convergences in Caribbean oral literature, as well as some significant divergences. It seems to me that these divergences relate mainly to the representation of the narrator and the posture of the storyteller. All in all, Comhaire-Sylvain remains fairly restrictive about her own interference, whereas the poet Damas allows himself much more poetic license and ‘folkloric’ freedom. |
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