Mémoire individuelle et collective dans les romans de Gayl Jones, Paule Marshall, Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor et Alice Walker
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Auteur / Autrice : | Sylvie Chavanelle |
Direction : | Geneviève Fabre |
Type : | Thèse de doctorat |
Discipline(s) : | Études anglophones |
Date : | Soutenance en 1994 |
Etablissement(s) : | Paris 7 |
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How individual and collective memory are intertwined. Names contain history, the history of an individual, an family, or a community. Female characters and the elders are the guardians of african-american memory, a memory that includes historical reality, myths and legdns, music, songs and dances, public and private rituals. The language reflcts an ethnic identity and cultural values. The places chosen by the novelists have a symbolic value. The narrative "refigures" time, highlighting various temporal schemes : chronological, "experienced", mythical, sacred, cyclical. The afro-american imagination is at work in the novels by jones, marshall, morrison, naylor and walker.