Le choix de Marie : Aimé Césaire et Suzanne Césaire face au 22 mai (1948-1960)
| Autor: | Malik Noël-Ferdinand |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Lettres, Langues, Arts et Sciences Humaines (CRILLASH), Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG) |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Reinterpretation
[SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature Poetry media_common.quotation_subject Art history Character (symbol) Art General Medicine Artistic inspiration Chose Depiction Statue [SHS.HIST]Humanities and Social Sciences/History Martinique ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS media_common |
| Zdroj: | Histoire Sociale-Social History Histoire Sociale-Social History, Les Publications Histoire sociale-Social History 2020, ⟨10.1353/his.0.0105⟩ Histoire Sociale/Social History Histoire Sociale/Social History, 2020, ⟨10.1353/his.0.0105⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1918-6576 0018-2257 |
| DOI: | 10.1353/his.2020.0007 |
| Popis: | Between 1948 and 1960, Aime Cesaire and Suzanne Cesaire drew on the successful antislavery insurrection of May 22, 1848 in Martinique for artistic inspiration. Both based their writings on a novel by Lafcadio Hearn in which a female enslaved domestic, Youma, chose to die alongside her masters during the revolt. In his work on Victor Schœlcher (1948), much like in his poems “Mots” (1950) and “Statue de Lafcadio Hearn” (1955-1960), Aime Cesaire places the reader at the heart of an “insurrection negre,” and offers a positive depiction of the Quimboiseur sorcerer, which Hearn had originally presented as a character worthy of being despised. Suzanne Cesaire’s reinterpretation of Hearn’s novel entitled Aurore de la liberte(1952) has not survived. An analysis of two under appreciated and invaluable reviews suggests that these performances were revolutionary in aesthetic terms and reveal how the playwright changed the ending of Hearn’s novel. Instead of staying to die alongside her masters (Hearn’s interpretation), Youma changes her name to Marie and chooses to join the revolt of 1848. In contrast to Aime Cesaire’s reinterpretation, Suzanne Cesaire develops the character Youma more fully and in so doing gives voice to the neglected enslaved female domestics who were killed on the 22 May 1848. |
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