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Entre l'idée, avancée par Lorna Burns, selon laquelle la créolisation est essentiellement un processus positif de devenir-antillais, et l'insistance, chez John Drabinski, sur l'expérience traumatisante qui le précède historiquement et ontologiquement, s'ouvre un espace où la poésie de Glissant s'affirme comme un mode de constitution de la conscience antillaise. Car la poésie, bien plus que les essais et les romans qui occupent la part belle de la littérature antillaise, dévoile le cadre affectif où l'histoire improbable d'une survie peut se déployer pleinement. En effet, la poésie de Glissant crée les conditions discursives sous lesquelles la souffrance des premières sociétés esclavagistes, loin de se dialectiser ou de se hypostasier, se révèle dans sa nécessité paradoxale. L'obsession du poète qui s'obstine à reprendre le cri primitif est largement admise. Chez Glissant, elle apparaît sous la guise d'une folie ou d'une passion de l'origine, terme que nous empruntons à Jacques Derrida en nous inspirant de son traitement de la notion de trace. Cette étude tente d'approfondir ces questions en examinant de près trois poèmes épiques de Glissant: Le Sel noir, Les Indes et Pays rêvé, pays réel, en relevant notamment trois motifs qui leur sont communs: le poème comme séparation, le poème comme trace, et le poème comme souffrance. / Between Lorna Burns's description of Glissant's creolization as a positive process of 'becoming-Caribbean' and John Drabinski's foregrounding of the trauma that precedes it historically and ontologically, a space opens up in which Glissant's poetry establishes itself as a mode of construction of Caribbeanconsciousness. For poetry, more than the essays and novels that proliferate in Caribbean literature, lays bare the emotional framework of the implausible story of survival. Indeed, Glissant's poetry creates the discursive conditions in which the suffering of the first slave communities is not dialecticized or hypostasized, but made to reveal itself in its paradoxical necessity. The poet's obsession to repeat the original cry is a familiar one. In Glissant's poetry, it takes the form of a folly or passion for origins, understood here in terms of Jacques Derrida's treatment of the notion of the trace. This study attempts to further our understanding of this passion by examining three epic poems by Glissant, Le Sel noir, Les Indes and Pays rêvé, pays réel, focusing in particular on three common motifs: the poem as separation, the poem as trace, and the poem as suffering.
The University of Adelaide Press publishes externally refereed scholarly books by staff of the University of Adelaide. It aims to maximise access to the University's best research by publishing works through the internet as free downloads and for sale as high quality printed volumes.
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