Reading Death: Allegory in Maryse Condé's Crossing the Mangrove

Fulton, Dawn

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“…More importantly, it is often difficult to distinguish between what is merely being thought and what is spoken. The successive interventions of the different narrators give off the impression of spoken dialogue, leading readers to perceive the novel as an instance of theatricality (Perret, 1995), and to emphasize the role of storytelling in the text (Fulton, 2001). In fact, however, the characters' narrations are fragmented, interior monologues that are not actually spoken out loud within the realm of the text.…”

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“…from m ik h a i l ba k htin to m a ryse con dé If critics have largely failed to pick up on the subversively non-vocal dimension of the narratives in Traversé de la mangrove, a striking ambivalence between silence and vocality nonetheless haunts many critical readings of the novel. Critics interchangeably refer to acts of reading and hearing, demonstrating their uncertainty as to the ontological status of the narratives (Morrison, 1995;Fulton, 2001). Murdoch (2001) notes the slippery indeterminacy of voice in many of Condé's texts, pointing to the impossibility of pinning down discourse to a particular speaker.…”

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2014

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Typeset by Carnegie Book Production, Lancaster Printed and bound by Booksfactory.co.uk 4 Opera and the Limits of Representation in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace Conclusion Notes Works Cited Index Contents Contents I cannot reduce my thoughts about life to the music of a single voice and a single point of view-I am, after all, a novelist.-Orhan Pamuk Borrowed Forms considers the impact of musical forms on late twentieth-century literature. The book looks closely at four musical concepts that have significantly influenced the novel and critical theory: polyphony, or the art of combining multiple, interdependent voices; counterpoint, the carefully regulated setting of one voice against another; variation, the virtuosic exploration of the diverse possibilities contained within a single theme; and opera, the dramatic setting of a story to a musical score. Although these musical forms took shape in the European Renaissance and Baroque, novelists have appropriated them as literary strategies because they open up alternative ways of conceiving relations among different subjectivities, histories, and positions, and provide a dynamic means to challenge and renew literary forms. In our cultural moment, novels circulate more widely than any other literary genre, and possess an exceptional plasticity that readily accommodates multiple perspectives, languages, styles, and registers. Not surprisingly, the novel has emerged as the privileged literary vehicle for expressing plurality and difference. How the novel reflects this increasingly transnational consciousness, and more precisely, how novelists and critics deploy musical forms to respond to new ethical and aesthetic demands, are among the principal questions this book addresses.

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Lachman¹

2014

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Once upon a time: Crafting allegories to analyze and share the cultural complexity of strategic alignment

Kaarst-Brown

2017

European Journal of Information Systems

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Hell and grace: Palimpsestic belonging in The True History of Paradise and Crossing the Mangrove

Shields

2018

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The Caribbean has been characterized as paradise, yet the region’s story is a more complicated one. A means of accessing stories that move beyond the tourist brochure representations is to engage with regional fiction. This essay employs the idea of palimpsestic belonging, which highlights the layers of each generation’s negotiation with colonial legacies, as a tool to explore familial and community attachment in the novels The True History of Paradise (1999) and Crossing the Mangrove (1995). Burial rituals and haunting are mechanisms to engage with the multiple disruptions of an imaginary and unified postcolonial nation. By highlighting the collisions of history, gender, sexuality, and class, these novels navigate national (un)belonging in two distinct Caribbean spaces—Jamaica and Guadeloupe.

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Reading Death: Allegory in Maryse Condé's Crossing the Mangrove

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Once upon a time: Crafting allegories to analyze and share the cultural complexity of strategic alignment

Hell and grace: Palimpsestic belonging in The True History of Paradise and Crossing the Mangrove

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