Power of death and art of Relation: a study of Moi, Tituba sorcière… by Maryse Condé Cover Image

Pouvoir de mort et art de la Relation : une étude de Moi, Tituba sorcière… de Maryse Condé
Power of death and art of Relation: a study of Moi, Tituba sorcière… by Maryse Condé

Author(s): Martyna Kander
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Caribbean literature; postcolonial literature; death; magic realism; Relation

Summary/Abstract: This study of the well-known novel Moi, Tituba sorcière… Noire de Salem (1986) by Maryse Condé will focus on the role of death in the narration. We will see how two different conceptions of death will here be in action: one, where death is nothing but a moment between two lives that still connect; the other, where death is used to enhance the power of white man. The aim is to see how Tituba reacts to the oppression by building a different approach to people, a path that is the “Relation” Edouard Glissant wrote about.

  • Issue Year: 21/2021
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 293-300
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: French
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