The Mauritian Francophone Literature: A Legacy of the 18th Century Literature? Cover Image

La littérature francophone mauricienne, un écho à la littérature dix-huitièmiste comme héritage ?
The Mauritian Francophone Literature: A Legacy of the 18th Century Literature?

Author(s): Sonia Dosoruth
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, French Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: The Enlightenment; Mauritius; nature; realism; literature

Summary/Abstract: When the French novelist Bernardin de Saint-Pierre wrote “Paul and Virginia”, in 1787, little did he know the international impact the book would have. Indeed, this novel emblematises the whole of the Mauritian francophone literature. This is because the vast majority of authors, from the colonial period to date, have internalised some form of mimicry of the book. The legacy it supports ranges from the representation of the utopian island to the ideological and aesthetics values of The Enlightenment, all of which pass through culture, History, the marks of anti-slavery movement, or the works of Nature.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 249-266
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: French