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Postmémoire de l’exil
| Summary: | The exile of Jemia’s Sahrawi parents and grandparents inspires J.M.G. The Clezio the writing of Désert, and Gens des nuages, a two-handed narrative of their journey in the footsteps of the Aroussiyine nomads. Based on the transmission of personal story with regard to History, these texts illustrate the deployment of a "postmemory" (Hirsch). This family memory adopts, in our opinion, a form essentially spatial, which could be schematized by the idea of "tourbillon" (Benjamin). Between repetition, renewal and resonance, the metaphors of spirality would be imprinted in a subjective rhythm, modelled on the displacement of tribes in the desert space, and a narrative frame from which the author disappears. This contribution intends to verify this hypothesis on the basis of a textual analysis, helped by the notions proper to memorial studies. |
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| Subject: | postmémoire Le Clézio (J.M.G. et Jemia) temps vécu spatialité postmemory spatiality exil exile lived-time |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Document type: | journal article |
| Access type: | Open |
| Associated institution: | Carnets, Revista Electrónica de Estudos Franceses |
| Language: | French |
| Origin: | Carnets, Revista Electrónica de Estudos Franceses |
| Summary: | The exile of Jemia’s Sahrawi parents and grandparents inspires J.M.G. The Clezio the writing of Désert, and Gens des nuages, a two-handed narrative of their journey in the footsteps of the Aroussiyine nomads. Based on the transmission of personal story with regard to History, these texts illustrate the deployment of a "postmemory" (Hirsch). This family memory adopts, in our opinion, a form essentially spatial, which could be schematized by the idea of "tourbillon" (Benjamin). Between repetition, renewal and resonance, the metaphors of spirality would be imprinted in a subjective rhythm, modelled on the displacement of tribes in the desert space, and a narrative frame from which the author disappears. This contribution intends to verify this hypothesis on the basis of a textual analysis, helped by the notions proper to memorial studies. |
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