Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo au Mercure de France ou les ambiguïtés d'une posture littéraire
The "Lettres malgaches" published in the Mercure de France are certainly not as extensive as for other geographical areas: only one issue, in June 1924, with eight pages. It was written by a young Malagasy author, Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, barely twenty-one years old, and was intended to pr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institut des textes & manuscrits modernes (ITEM)
2024-07-01
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| Series: | Continents manuscrits |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/coma/11867 |
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| Summary: | The "Lettres malgaches" published in the Mercure de France are certainly not as extensive as for other geographical areas: only one issue, in June 1924, with eight pages. It was written by a young Malagasy author, Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, barely twenty-one years old, and was intended to provide an overview of contemporary Malagasy literature. However, this isolated article fully justifies a study, because it reveals to the literary world of the time - and to today's public - the pen of one of the greatest Malagasy writers, a precursor poet between two worlds; beyond that, because it illustrates the ambiguities of a colonial France advocating assimilation while preventing the full recognition of indigenous talent. The art of the young Rabearivelo – and the interest of this text – lies in highlighting this paradox. Pretending to follow the academic codes of a metropolitan literary review, he bypasses and subverts them by using the oratorical art of the Malagasy kabary (speech), which structures the text. |
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| ISSN: | 2275-1742 |