AU COEUR D’UNE VISITE GUIDEE DE LAVENTILLE, BIDONVILLE POPULAIRE DE PORT OF SPAIN, POUR EXCURSIONNISTES INTRADIEGETIQUES ET EXTRADIEGETIQUES, DANS LE CHAPITRE UP TO THE HILL DE IS JUST A MOVIE ROMAN D’EARL LOVELACE
AT THE HEART OF A GUIDED TOUR OF LAVENTILLE, THE POPULAR SLUM OF PORT OF SPAIN, FOR INTRADIEGETIC AND EXTRADIEGETIC EXCURSIONISTS, IN THE CHAPTER UP TO THE HILL FROM IS JUST A MOVIE NOVEL BY EARL LOVELACE

Summary/Abstract: The Chapter Up the Hill from Is Just a Movie by Earl Lovelace takes the reader to the popular slum of Laventille in Trinidad through a startling narrative. This article, through a narratological analysis, questions the realism of the narrative techniques in this chapter. The novelist uses processes of verisimilitude to infuse the initiatory logic and the unusual tourist attraction. True travellers do not seem to be concerned with the revelation of the initiatory quest. Who is this quest for? This article is part of a postcolonial approach to promote Caribbean culture, of which the novelist is one of the champions of authenticity in Trinidad.

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