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Title
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Journal d'un déporté martiniquais mort à Buchenwald : un auteur antillais d'adoption et le noeud de mémoire (Rendez-vous avec l'heure qui blesse de G.-P. Effa)
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Abstract
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| In this article, I analyze Gaston-Paul Effa’s novel, Rendez-vous avec l’heure qui blesse, in its double memorial axis: the connection with the slave narratives, on the one hand, and the testimonials of the Holocaust, on the other. Indeed, the African writer revisits through a fictional diary written by a Black victim of Nazism, deported to Buchenwald, the « knot of memory » between the Black Diaspora and the Jewish Diaspora. Special attention will be given to the dog-metaphor which allows the narrator to portray the brutalities and the atrocities in the camp, but also the exceptional (privileged) treatment of the vet who is called to cure Hitler’s dog. Part biography, based on the correspondence between Raphaël Elizé and his wife, part fiction, Effa succeeds in bringing two profound wounds of the past together: his protagonist, himself a descendant of slaves, is the lowest of the Jews deported to the camps because of his skin color. Yet resistance comes from the proximity the protagonist always had with (sick) animals. This turns out to be a strategy to endure some of the most inhuman aspects. |
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Language
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French
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Source (journal)
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French studies in Southern Africa / Association of French Studies in Southern Africa; Association des études françaises en Afrique australe. - Cape Town, 1971, currens
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Publication
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Cape Town
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Association of French Studies in Southern Africa
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2017
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ISSN
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0259-0247
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Volume/pages
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47
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, p. 72-88
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