René Maran, exilated of time

Authors

  • Danielle Grace de Almeida UFRN - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. Departamento de Práticas Educacionais e Currículo. Integrante do Programa de Pós-graduação em Estudos da Linguagem (PPgEL/CCHLA). Natal – RN – Brasil.

Keywords:

René Maran, Guyanese poetry, Exile, Latin American literature in French language

Abstract

This paper aims to examine the construction of a poetics of exile in the writing of René Maran (1922; 1935). Based on the considerations of Edward Said (2003) in “Reflections on exile”, we propose to understand the figure of the exile in the representations of nationality as a constitutive process of an ambiguous literary personality. In addition to pointing to the representation of an absence, Maran’s poetry ends up showing the expression of a feeling of exile that is more strongly linked to time than to spatial distances. Therefore, we discuss the peculiar place that Maran occupies in literature (French and/or Guyanese), giving special attention to his poetry, regarded as “classic” and little studied (MOURALIS, 2013; LITTLE, 2005).

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Published

16/03/2022

Issue

n.22 (2), 2021

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