Écho des études romanes 2017, 13(2):169-181 | DOI: 10.32725/eer.2017.028
Mèt kontè se manti ! Maître conteur, tu mens ou tu (te) trompes ! Le passage de la simulation narrative à la confession autobiographique dans le conte haïtien en diasporaFrench
- Université de Varsovie
Mots clés: conte haïtien; Mimi Barthélémy; Paula Clermont Péan; Joujou Turenne; simulation; oraliture
Mèt kontè se manti! Master storyteller, you lie or you're wrong! The transition from narrative simulation to autobiographical confession in Haitian storytelling in the diaspora
The aim of this paper is to analyse the permeable boundaries between the author and the narrator in the rewritings of Haitian traditional oral tales, in the context of the present-day Diaspora. We will focus in particular on two storytellers, Joujou Turenne (Québec) and Mimi Barthélémy (France), to investigate the passage from the oral to the written form of a tale, a passage that disrupts the tale's narration as far as the traditional forms of opening and closing, the ultimate site of the narrator's simulation, are concerned. Our analysis will be based on a comparative study of the two storytellers' texts, by way of the specific case of the Haitian storyteller Paula Clermont Péan.
Keywords: Haitian folktale; Mimi Barthélémy; Paula Clermont Péan; Joujou Turenne; simulation; oral literature
Published: December 11, 2017 Show citation
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