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"Chemin des Dames": le tirailleur sénégalais de Léon-Gontran Damas à David Diop
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Abstract
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| In this article we study the representation of the Tirailleur sénégalais dating from the poetry of L.G. Damas (Pigments 1937; “Mine de riens”, posthumous edition 2012) up until Frère d’âme, the second novel by Senegalese author David Diop. A character in the margins of Antillean and Guyanese literature, the black war veteran is a figure of relay between two worlds of oppression: first of all, the French colony, and secondly, the “Zone occupée” (occupied zone) or concentration camps. A mostly onedimensional character in Caribbean literature, the black soldier is also depicted in the novels of André and Simone Schwarz-Bart. In their project of a series of novels bringing together black and white worlds and histories, one senses that a Senegalese warrior may have crossed Mariotte’s path. The protagonist of Un plat de porc aux bananes vertes () evokes the memories of a Senegalese friend. However, considering the incompleteness of the schwarzbartian series one could speculate that this Senegalese friend could have been a soldier or a black “resistance” fighter who had to meet with the Afro-Caribbean woman who died in solitude in Paris. The 2018 novel by Senegalese author David Diop, Frère d’âmes, which was published in concurrence with the centennial commemoration of the end of the Great War, seems to complete the Schwarz-Bartian series and provide missing answers. |
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Language
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French
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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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2019
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0259-0247
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Volume/pages
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49
(2019)
, p. 122-139
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ISI
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000582629800007
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