While rejecting a conception of literature as moral philosophy, or a device for imparting particular morals to the reader through exemplary characters and plots, Maryse Cond??? has displayed throughout her writing career a strong valorization of literature as ethical critique. This study examines her singular approach to literary commitment as a critical reworking of aesthetic models and modes of interpretation. Focusing on four dominant problematics in Cond???'s work--history and globalization in La Belle Cr???ole and ...
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While rejecting a conception of literature as moral philosophy, or a device for imparting particular morals to the reader through exemplary characters and plots, Maryse Cond??? has displayed throughout her writing career a strong valorization of literature as ethical critique. This study examines her singular approach to literary commitment as a critical reworking of aesthetic models and modes of interpretation. Focusing on four dominant problematics in Cond???'s work--history and globalization in La Belle Cr???ole and Moi, Tituba sorci???re...noire de Salem , intertextuality and reception in La migration des coeurs and C???lanire cou-coup??? , trauma and subjectivity in En attendant le bonheur and Desirada , community and ethics in Travers???e de la mangrove and Histoire de la femme cannibale --this analysis proposes to elucidate how, and to what ends, Cond??? engages, and alters, approaches to reading, staging the problematic, yet pragmatic, need to read well . This hermeneutic imperative foregrounds the need to engage with texts, to cannibalize texts while recognizing their fundamental opacity and inexhaustibility, their resistance to the reader's interpretive habits.
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