The character struggling with memory

ISBN-13: 9786204315867 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str.

Anaïs Metoukson

Opis

The Dark Season, by Léonora Miano, tells the story of the transatlantic slave trade: it bears witness to the suffering and questions the identity becoming of a community from which loved ones have been torn away, for a life of slavery. The novel features Eyabe, who attempts to make sense of the pangs of history through a quest where the stakes are truth, homage and the rebirth of the missing son. By considering this character as a phenomenon of signification, either by analyzing it in its semiotic and enunciative dimensions but, also, in the cognitive and epistemological achievements of his journey of quest, the author demonstrates that, wanting to reappropriate his history, the main character manages to reappropriate History.

O autorze

Metoukson, AnaïsAnaïs Metoukson holds a Masters in Literary Studies from Laval University. His thesis is on the honor roll of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. She is currently writing a thesis on black women in the novels of contemporary French-speaking and African-American writers.