Journal | Il Tolomeo
Monographic journal issue | 22 | 2020
Research Article | La critique environnementale dans les récits animaliers de René Maran

La critique environnementale dans les récits animaliers de René Maran

Abstract

This article aims at analysing René Maran’s five animal novels. In these texts, Maran criticizes the colonial system not only for its cruelty to the native population, but also for its ecological violence against the bush and its non-human inhabitants. In particular, this research will be focusing on the author’s ability to abandon a human (and colonial) point of view in order to adopt an animal one. On the one hand, this new subjectivity – as well as Maran’s comprehension of indigenous naturalist society – allows the writer to condemn the colonial period from an ecocritical perspective. On the other hand, it provides evidence of the existence of culture among the beasts of his novels. Finally, this article will also prove that it is thanks to their culture that Maran’s animals will try to resist the colonial-centred environment and ideology.


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Submitted: Aug. 12, 2020 | Accepted: Sept. 25, 2020 | Published Dec. 22, 2020 | Language: fr

Keywords Environmental Humanities • Francophone Literature • Postcolonial Studies • René Maran • Animal Studies

Copyright © 2020 Lia Milanesio. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2020/22/027


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