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Rethinking Rootedness in Simone Schwarz-Bart's Ti Jean L'horizon.

The article provides an analysis of Simone Schwarz-Bart's novel "Ti Jean L'horizon." In the novel, the character Ti Jean finds himself stoned to death and then enters an imaginary world. The author of this article argues that the novel provides a fantasy world where time and space are collapsed in o...

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Published in:French Review (0016-111X) Vol. 80; no. 3; pp. 594 - 606
Main Author: Huntington, Julie
Format: Article
Published: Johns Hopkins University Press Feb2007
Subjects:
Ti Jean L'Horizon (Book)
Schwarz-Bart, Simone
Literary characters
Glissant, Édouard, 1928-2011
Imagination
Fantasy (Psychology)
Caribbean literature (French)
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Summary:The article provides an analysis of Simone Schwarz-Bart's novel "Ti Jean L'horizon." In the novel, the character Ti Jean finds himself stoned to death and then enters an imaginary world. The author of this article argues that the novel provides a fantasy world where time and space are collapsed in order to explore the complexities of trans-cultural identity in the French speaking Caribbean. Schwarz-Bart's analysis of identity and the concept of "rootedness" are contrasted to interpretations by Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari and Edouard Glissant.