The Romanic Review articles from May 2003

The Romanic Review archives from May 2003

En guise de preface.(Caribbean author Maryse Conde comments on teaching experiences)
May 1, 2003... On me pose souvent la question: "Pour vous, n'etait-ce pas penible d'enseigner?" S'il est certain que ce qui detourne un ecrivain de l'essentiel de sa vie est intolerable, que toute forme d'activite, hormis celle d'ecrire, est percue comme un...

Sur les traces de Maryse Conde.
May 1, 2003... [C]reativity is a complex process which obeys no rules... Creative imagination goes beyond the limits of reality and soars to areas of its own choice. (1) Maryse Conde and I entered the French at Department Columbia University at the same...

Maryse d'une rive a l'autre.(personal reflections on works of Caribbean author Maryse Conde)
May 1, 2003... Dans les lieux qu'habite Maryse Conde regne un ordre parfait a vous en rendre jalouse, tandis que dans ses personnages et ses recits regne le desordre des passions et des errances. Aussi n'avais-je aucune raison de prevoir que l'amitie--ce...

Passage d'africanite chez Maryse Conde.(analysis of novels of Maryse Conde: Moi, Titubu sorciere ... Noire de Salem, Traversee de la mangrove et Les derniers Rois mages)
May 1, 2003... En ce 10 decembre qu'il n'avait pas celebre, plus acre encore, la nostalgie prenait Spero a la gorge. Qu'est-ce qu'il n'aurait pas donne pour rentrer chez lui! [...] Chez lui? Est-ce que ces mots avaient encore un sens? Apres tant et...

Translating grief.
May 1, 2003... In her 1993 essay, "Order, Disorder, Freedom, and the West Indian Writer," Maryse Conde takes a clear-eyed position on the creolite movement, and on its leaders' 1989 manifesto, Eloge de la creolite. (1) She criticizes, in a thoughtful tone,...

Of dogs and men: La Belle Creole and the global subject.
May 1, 2003... "Rien ne protege des morsures de cette enragee qu'est la chienne de vie" (1) It has often been noted that much of Maryse Conde's novelistic energy is spent challenging, questioning, or even mocking essentializing models of Caribbean...

Vital signs in the body politic: eroticism and exile in Maryse Conde and Dany Laferriere.
May 1, 2003... Il n'y a pas de paroles sur l'Amour par ici.... Notre pre-litterature est de cris, de haines, de revendications, de propheties aux Aubes inevitables, d'analyseurs, de donneurs de lecons, gardiens de solutions solutionnantes aux miseres...

Shattered pasts, fractured selves: trauma and memory in Desirada.
May 1, 2003... Maryse Conde's Desirada, published in 1997, chronicles the lives of three generations of women, Nina, Reynalda and Marie-Noelle Titane. The story begins shortly before 1928 with the birth of Nina in la Desirade, Guadeloupe, and ends in 1990s...

La dechirure de l'espace: Desirada de Maryse Conde.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... L'espace et le silence pesent d'un seul poids sur le coeur. Un brusque amour, une grande oeuvre, un acte decisif, une pensee qui transfigure, a certains moments donnent la meme intolerable anxiete, doublee d'un trait irresistible. Delicieuse...

La Belle Creole de Maryse Conde, un art d'ecriture.(Book Review)
May 1, 2003... Chacun veut changer le monde. Mais le monde ne change pas. Maryse Conde, La Belle Creole Le Titre, La Belle Creole Le titre "La Belle Creole" est un piege, une oratio oblica, qui ne designe pas la matiere du livre. C'est un piege bien...

Crossing the mangrove of order and prejudice.
May 1, 2003... Traversee de la mangrove, Maryse Conde's fifth novel and her first set solely in Guadeloupe, is structured around intertwined quests that reflect the search for identity grounding much of Caribbean literature. The death of its main protagonist,...

Creole in Maryse Conde's work: the disordering of the neo-colonial order?
May 1, 2003... In this essay I will address Maryse Conde's perception and definition of Guadeloupean identity through an analysis of her linguistic and sociolinguistic treatment of Guadeloupean Creole in three of her novels, La Vie scelerate (1987), Traversee...

Stepping outside the magic circle: the critical thought of Maryse Conde.
May 1, 2003... The writings of Maryse Conde are critical to their core. Her novels dismantle the pieties of everyday life to look at what lies underneath: the fragile narcissism of subjects who erect facades of ideology and self-importance around the naked...

Cut-throat or mocking-bird: of Conde's renewals.
May 1, 2003... A few years ago Maryse Conde declared tongue-in-cheek: "I think I've somewhat lost the power to displease. It's something I miss." (1) Pleasing or displeasing at her own leisure, her work is by now unsurpassed in scope as a fiction monument...

La gastronomie furtive de Maryse Conde.(importance of food in works of Caribbean author Maryse Conde)
May 1, 2003... Lectricede Maryse Conde, j'ai eu la chance de partager des moments ou elle recoit et ou malgre des proferations d'humilite somme toute rituelles, elle annonce qu'elle a prepare le repas. Et c'est toujours bon, excellent meme, que ce soit le...

Conde's trials of the spirit.
May 1, 2003... In his second edition of the Essay Human on Understanding (1694), John Locke added a section on personal identity that caused numerous theological disputes. In what, Locke asked, lies that self that makes a human a person? He concluded that...

Conde's creolite in literary history.
May 1, 2003... Drawing on a wide range of theories literary history and geography, I want to consider how the Creolophone/Francophone novel and, in particular, Maryse Conde's fiction, challenge paradigms of literary evolution, narrative markets, comparative...

Maryse Conde et Lafcadio Hearn, un rendez-vous manque?(Ekkyosuru Kureolu, Japanese language compilation of works of Caribbean author Maryse Conde)
May 1, 2003... "Refus infini d'etre quoi que ce soit" Paul Valery C'est pour moi un grand plaisir de me retrouver parmi les amis de longue date de "la grande dame" de la litterature caribeenne dont le retentissement atteint l'autre bout du monde. En...

A fugue of legacies: a meditation for Maryse Conde.
May 1, 2003... Pas sa faute si elie souffrait du complexe des victimes et s'identifiait a ceux qui sont poursuivis. Maryse Conde, Histoire de la femme cannibale Comment pourrais-je oublier mon passe? dit le Juif. Non seulement il me poursuit depuis...