Open Accessmémoire de la traversée dans L’empreinte à Crusoé de Patrick Chamoiseau
Author(s) -
Valeria Liljesthröm
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
voix plurielles
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1925-0614
DOI - 10.26522/vp.v19i1.3934
Subject(s) - art , colonialism , humanities , geography , archaeology
L’empreinte à Crusoé by Patrick Chamoiseau revisits European colonial expansion, specifically slave trade and, rewriting Robinson Crusoe, the deportation of Africans towards America. Chamoiseau’s elliptic style reveals the traumata caused by this experience. The novel thus succeeds in communicating its extreme without describing the ocean crossing itself.