Faire son chemin de Damas : le (soi-disant) Tiers monde et la femme dite "noire": Toni Morrison, Maryse Condé et Mariama Bâ
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Abstract EN:
Avant de partir a la recherche de l'autre, il faudra tout d'abord voyager au fond de soi. Les ecrits de trois femmes dites "noires" - toni morrison, afro-americaine, maryse conde, antillaise, et mariama ba, africaine - aideront le chercheur a atteindre l'autre rive et a revenir a lui-meme, mais transforme par son experience, tel saint paul sur le chemin de damas. Car la litterature dite americaine n'existerait pas sans la presence du peuple noir, comme l'affirme de toni morrison, et sans les ecrits de cet auteur, la quete de l'autre aux antilles ou en afrique n'aura pas lieu. Les trois romancieres auront accompli une telle recherche. Quant a leurs personnages, tres peu arriveront a surmonter les entraves et embrasser l'element autre en eux-memes et a retrouver leur reflet chez l'etranger. Ceux qui feront le pont avec l'autre reussiront dans le cadre de leur communaute ou de leur groupe racial culturel, ce qui est deja un pas en avant.
Abstract FR:
Before undertaking the search for the other, it is necessary to travel to the farthest depths of oneself. The works of three so-called "black" women toni morrison, african-american, maryse conde, west indian, and mariama ba, african will help the researcher to reach the other shore and to come back to himself, but transformed by the experience, like saint paul on the road to damascus. For what is called american literature would not exist without the presence of black people, as toni morrison asserts, and without this author's works, the quest for the other in the west indies and in africa would not take place. These three women, as novelists, will have accomplished such a search. As for their characters, very few will manage to overcome obstacles and embrace the "other" element in themselves and find their mirror image reflected in the stranger. Those who finally build a bridge with the other will succeed in doing so in their own community or within their racial cultural group, which is already a step forward.