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Wonders of the Waking World: Exploring the Subject in Maryse Condé's Traversée de la Mangrove

Wahl, Jennifer L.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1248736176

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2009, Master of Arts, Miami University, French.
Maryse Condé’s novel Traversée de la Mangrove follows the people of a small, fictional town in Guadeloupe on a long night’s journey through the funeral wake of one of their most notorious, and enigmatic, citizens – a man known as Francis Sancher. The novel sets forth a dizzying topography, of individuals and islands, paths and blind alleys through the life of the deceased and the lives of those whom his influence forever changed. As at all wakes, however, the man at its center has no voice of his own. Rather, he is reconstructed and reanimated by the testimony of others. Through the optic of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s “rhizomatic” theory of literature, I examine Condé’s re-membering of Sancher through the voices of those in his community. In the novel, subjectivity does not rely solely upon social class or racial identity but is constructed by each individual through a process of self-examination and envisioning the future.
Mark McKinney, PhD (Advisor)
Elisabeth Hodges, PhD (Committee Member)
Anna Klosowska, PhD (Committee Member)
72 p.
Caribbean Literature; Literature; Philosophy; Womens Studies
Maryse Conde; Traversee de la Mangrove; Caribbean literature; Women's Studies; Francophone; Deleuze; Badiou

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  • Wahl, J. L. (2009). Wonders of the Waking World: Exploring the Subject in Maryse Condé's Traversée de la Mangrove [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1248736176

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Wahl, Jennifer. Wonders of the Waking World: Exploring the Subject in Maryse Condé's Traversée de la Mangrove. 2009. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1248736176.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Wahl, Jennifer. "Wonders of the Waking World: Exploring the Subject in Maryse Condé's Traversée de la Mangrove." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1248736176

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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