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Journal Article
Les relectures empathiques (im)possibles d’Un alligator nommé Rosa de Marie-Célie Agnant
2025
Overview
The aim of the present paper is to answer the question whetherit is possible to reread the book Un alligator nommé Rosa (2007)by Marie-Célie Agnant, a Quebec writer of Haitian origins,through the lenses of empathy and of what A. Gefen (2017)names the “empathetic participation” of the reader. The booktells the story of two victims of Rosa Bosquet (based on the realperson), the cruel right-hand woman of former Haitian presidentF. Duvallier, who decide to punish Rosa, now old, paralyzed, mute,and entirely defenseless. The paper is divided into three parts,analyzing the three main protagonists and their possible empatheticreception by the reader. It turns out that the narrative strategies usedby Agnant and the changes of role between executioner and victim,provoke that the empathy is frequently blocked. It does not meanhowever that the empathetic rereading of the book is vain: it makesthe reader reflect on the nature of Good and Evil and encouragesthem to “repair the world”.
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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego,Jagiellonian University Press
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