UNE ÉTUDE ÉCOCRITIQUE SUR MOI, TITUBA, SORCIÈRE... ET TRAVERSÉE DE LA MANGROVE DE MARYSE CONDÉ

Abstract

Over the past several decades, ecocritical approaches to literature have become increasingly prevalent, drawing our attention to the important environmental dimensions and impact of cultural productions, an urgent concern amid our current climate crisis. While Anglophone literary criticism and critical theory have engaged substantially with this emerging field, Francophone literary studies has lagged behind. This thesis aims to fill this gap by analyzing two works of Maryse Condé within the framework of postcolonialism and ecocriticism by evaluating ecocritical studies alongside more traditional literary critical approaches. Writing at the nexus of postcoloniality, feminism, and global Francophone literature, Condé and her work promise to bridge key gaps in contemporary scholarship and synthesize what have been all too often disparate literary, critical, and theoretical traditions. Taking up various ecological literary tropes in Condé's work in conjunction with her biography and the ideas of philosophers such as Césaire, Fanon and Glissant, in this thesis we aim to analyze two works by Maryse Condé: Moi,Tituba sorcière... and Traversée de la Mangrove, using the method of ecocriticism to understand the role of natural elements in the construction of identity within Afro-Caribbean society.