La Belle Créole by Maryse Condé or how de-exoticize Guadeloupe

The Caribbean islands, to the extent that they embody a number of stereotypes “that define their specificity, strangeness and charm”, constitute what Staszak calls a “geo-semantic domain” born out of exoticism (2008; 20). Indeed, they appear in the Western imagination as islands of lush vegetation,...

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Autor principal: Biorda, María Celeste
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Publicado: Departamento de Letras - Facultad de Humanidade 2024
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Maryse Condé
Insularidad
Exotismo
Estereotipo
Insularity
Exoticism
Stereotype
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spelling I22-R128-article-56532024-12-12T15:42:40Z La Belle Créole by Maryse Condé or how de-exoticize Guadeloupe La Belle Créole de Maryse Condé o cómo desexotizar Guadalupe Biorda, María Celeste Maryse Condé Insularidad Exotismo Estereotipo Maryse Condé Insularity Exoticism Stereotype The Caribbean islands, to the extent that they embody a number of stereotypes “that define their specificity, strangeness and charm”, constitute what Staszak calls a “geo-semantic domain” born out of exoticism (2008; 20). Indeed, they appear in the Western imagination as islands of lush vegetation, a climate conducive to sensuality, and a certain Creole well-being associated with laziness, as exemplified, for instance, in Baudelaire's poem “L’invitation au voyage” [Invitation to the Voyage].Although exoticism is defined less as the characteristic of an object than as someone's viewpoint on it, certain territories have undergone a process of exoticization by the West, which, through conquest and colonial domination, has made London and Paris an “absolute here (...) against which an absolute elsewhere is defined” (Staszak: 2008; 9). Fortunately, there are strategies to overcome exoticism, as Staszak notes (2008: 28-29), some of which are employed by Maryse Condé in La Belle Créole [The belle créole]. Our goal here is to explore how the author goes about reversing the exotic gaze that weighs upon the island, or at least refocusing it with the aim of de-exoticizing it. Las islas del Caribe, en la medida en que agrupan un cierto número de estereotipos “que conforman a la vez su especificidad, su extrañeza y su encanto”, constituyen lo que Staszak (2008: 20) llama un “dominio geo-semántico” proveniente del exotismo. En efecto, aparecen en el imaginario occidental como islas paradisíacas, de una vegetación exuberante, de un clima propicio para la sensualidad, donde reina un cierto bienestar criollo asociado a la pereza, como lo testimonia, por ejemplo, el famoso poema de Baudelaire “L’invitation au voyage” [“La invitación al viaje”].A pesar de que el exotismo no caracterice un objeto sino más bien el punto de vista de alguien sobre ese objeto, algunos territorios sufrieron un proceso de exotización por parte de Occidente que, a fuerza de conquistas y dominación colonial, hizo de Londres y París un “aquí absoluto (...) en relación con el cual se define un allí absoluto” (Staszak: 2008: 9). Afortunadamente, existen estrategias para superar el exotismo y Staszak (2008) nos revela algunas de ellas que también son empleadas por Maryse Condé en La Belle créole [“La bella criolla”]. Nuestro objetivo será explorar aquí la manera en que la autora revierte la mirada exótica que pesa sobre la isla, o al menos la refocaliza con el objetivo de desexotizarla. Departamento de Letras - Facultad de Humanidade 2024-12-09 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revele.uncoma.edu.ar/index.php/letras/article/view/5653 Language and Literature Magazine; No. 42 (2024): Revista de Lengua y Literatura; 106-117 Revista de Lengua y Literatura; Núm. 42 (2024): Revista de Lengua y Literatura; 106-117 2408-4646 0327-1951 spa https://revele.uncoma.edu.ar/index.php/letras/article/view/5653/62555 Derechos de autor 2024 Revista de Lengua y Literatura https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ar/
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Insularidad
Exotismo
Estereotipo
Maryse Condé
Insularity
Exoticism
Stereotype
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Insularidad
Exotismo
Estereotipo
Maryse Condé
Insularity
Exoticism
Stereotype
Biorda, María Celeste
La Belle Créole by Maryse Condé or how de-exoticize Guadeloupe
topic_facet Maryse Condé
Insularidad
Exotismo
Estereotipo
Maryse Condé
Insularity
Exoticism
Stereotype
author Biorda, María Celeste
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title La Belle Créole by Maryse Condé or how de-exoticize Guadeloupe
title_short La Belle Créole by Maryse Condé or how de-exoticize Guadeloupe
title_full La Belle Créole by Maryse Condé or how de-exoticize Guadeloupe
title_fullStr La Belle Créole by Maryse Condé or how de-exoticize Guadeloupe
title_full_unstemmed La Belle Créole by Maryse Condé or how de-exoticize Guadeloupe
title_sort la belle créole by maryse condé or how de-exoticize guadeloupe
description The Caribbean islands, to the extent that they embody a number of stereotypes “that define their specificity, strangeness and charm”, constitute what Staszak calls a “geo-semantic domain” born out of exoticism (2008; 20). Indeed, they appear in the Western imagination as islands of lush vegetation, a climate conducive to sensuality, and a certain Creole well-being associated with laziness, as exemplified, for instance, in Baudelaire's poem “L’invitation au voyage” [Invitation to the Voyage].Although exoticism is defined less as the characteristic of an object than as someone's viewpoint on it, certain territories have undergone a process of exoticization by the West, which, through conquest and colonial domination, has made London and Paris an “absolute here (...) against which an absolute elsewhere is defined” (Staszak: 2008; 9). Fortunately, there are strategies to overcome exoticism, as Staszak notes (2008: 28-29), some of which are employed by Maryse Condé in La Belle Créole [The belle créole]. Our goal here is to explore how the author goes about reversing the exotic gaze that weighs upon the island, or at least refocusing it with the aim of de-exoticizing it.
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