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Eating Well, Reading Well: Maryse Condé and the Ethics of Interpretation

Eating Well, Reading Well: Maryse Condé and the Ethics of Interpretation

Simek, Nicole

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Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 9042023279
ISBN13: 9789042023277
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jan 1 2008
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
While rejecting a conception of literature as moral philosophy, or a device for imparting particular morals to the reader through exemplary characters and plots, Maryse Condé has displayed throughout her writing career a strong valorization of literature as ethical critique. This study examines her singular approach to literary commitment as a critical reworking of aesthetic models and modes of interpretation. Focusing on four dominant problematics in Condé's work--history and globalization in La Belle Créole and Moi, Tituba sorcière...noire de Salem, intertextuality and reception in La migration des coeurs and Célanire cou-coupé, trauma and subjectivity in En attendant le bonheur and Desirada, community and ethics in Traversée de la mangrove and Histoire de la femme cannibale--this analysis proposes to elucidate how, and to what ends, Condé engages, and alters, approaches to reading, staging the problematic, yet pragmatic, need to read well. This hermeneutic imperative foregrounds the need to engage with texts, to cannibalize texts while recognizing their fundamental opacity and inexhaustibility, their resistance to the reader's interpretive habits.

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