Rewriting the French Colonial Topos of the Island in the Works of Marie Ferranti, Jean-François Samlong, and Chantal Spitz

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dc.contributor.advisorEades, Carolineen_US
dc.contributor.authorBaage, Silviaen_US
dc.contributor.departmentFrench Language and Literatureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-07-07T06:22:58Z
dc.date.available2012-07-07T06:22:58Z
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.description.abstractThe island trope is a recurring theme in colonial travel literature but how do contemporary authors of the French-speaking world conceptualize the island in the 20th and 21st century? My project examines the complexity of the notion of islandedness in the works of three contemporary authors of Francophone islands outside the French Caribbean: Corsican author Marie Ferranti, Réunionese author Jean-François Samlong, and Tahitian author Chantal Spitz. Drawing on different discourses of postmodernity including intertextuality, supermodernity, the hyperreal, the time-image, and violence, I argue that the island becomes an important site from which ethnography, the crisis of time and meaning, and techniques of resistance are negotiated and constructed. In my analysis, I build on various foundational theories of cultural contact from the French Caribbean and Francophone Africa to account for the diversity and difference of the non-French Caribbean island text. Particular attention will be given to the literary text as a tool to reflect upon a colonial past and neo-colonial present in three different contexts of the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the South Pacific.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/12768
dc.subject.pqcontrolledModern literatureen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledLiteratureen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledModern languageen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledCorsicaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledFrench Caribbeanen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledRéunionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledTahitien_US
dc.titleRewriting the French Colonial Topos of the Island in the Works of Marie Ferranti, Jean-François Samlong, and Chantal Spitzen_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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