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- Title: Speaking Self Into Significance: Male Vs. Female Strategies in Les Derniers Rois Mages (Critical Essay)
- Author : Romance Notes
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 197 KB
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Peut-etre l'ascendance maternelle est-elle aussi importante que la paternelle? (179) IN 1790, the Census revealed that of 11,500 inhabitants of Guadeloupe, 9,400 were slaves. When slavery was abolished in 1848, the newly-freed men and women received nothing but a family name--the fraught and ironic patronym of their master. Naming is claiming, and such onomastics continued to exert an enslaving control, since any genealogical research before or after the date of manumission was thereby effectively blocked, any other identity that had belonged to the slave now freeman having been effaced by the superscription of the master's family name. Paul del Perugia has recently described this phenomenon as one of 'oubli,' both in reference to the forgotten kings of the Tutsi kingdom, as well as to individuals programmatically deprived by the institution of slavery of sense or significance (del Perugia 1). Nonetheless, in Les derniers rois mages, Maryse Conde invents a technique through fiction to confer pride and identity on a people denied both for far too long. This presentation will examine her deployment of manifold, sometimes opposing, "histories", offering textual examples of each and demonstrating the ultimate resolution of this kaleidoscope of variants and versions into a new identity. However, it is not enough to work with the issue in a totalizing sense, as others have, averring that