The games of the dissimilar. Madness, margin and femininity in contemporary Haitian literature
The games of the dissimilar. Madness, margin and femininity in contemporary Haitian literature
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Why have figures of madness and the feminine multiplied in the literary landscape since the second half of the 20th century and the turn of the millennium? By noting the major trends that bring together the expression of catastrophe and the defeat of meaning as well as the appearance of important female figures and characters in works of all genres, Stéphane Martelly addresses madness, the margin and the feminine as concurrent expressions of dissimilarity in the major writings of Marie Vieux Chauvet, Frankétienne, Davertige, Jan J. Dominique and Lyonel Trouillot. In a language that is both scholarly and lyrical, the author examines the rhetorical play of postures of dissimilarity and the way in which they point from the text to a beyond of the work, which indicates the "domestic space" of its own failure as well as the work of reading and creation. The dissimilar then becomes this fleeting object of an involved reading in which, the critical gaze leaning on a literary writing and a pictorial work charged with interrupting its flow, constitutes in fact this "unusual moment of the theory" which keeps it in check while making it speak.
