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Journal Article
Creole Identity in Chamoiseau's \Solibo Magnifique\ and Confiant's \Le Meurtre du Samedi-Gloria\
2006
Overview
A police inquiry under Inspector Frédéric Dorval, reassigned to Martinique after 15 years with the French metropolitan police force, leads us through a marginal netherworld of the common people living an impoverished existence, a world of jobless people, street vendors, hawkers, prostitutes, fishermen, thieves, etc., whose lives are animated by the combats of the damier, cockfights, movies, and sexual encounters. (Rushdie 120, 124-25) To understand their Caribbeanness, according to Edouard Glissant, the Creole people had to keep a \"clear consciousness\" of their relations with both Africa and Europe, thus needing to scrutinize the chaos of this new humanity that we are, to understand what the Caribbean is; to perceive the meaning of this Caribbean civilization which is still stammering and immobile; to embrace \"our space in the world; to explore \"our reality from a cathartic perspective; to decompose what we are while purifying what we are by fully exhibiting to the sun of consciousness the hidden mechanisms of our alienation; to plunge in our singularity, to explore it in a projective way, to reach out for what we are\" (Bernabé et al 83-84; Glissant cited) From this consciousness is thrown up the barrier of mistrust and suspicion between the common Creole people and the authorities, the whites and their surrogates. The Writing of Memory\"]. [...]the writer sets out to fashion the fusion of the spoken word and the written word. Since a \"renifleur\" is someone who snifts out, or is on the scent of, something or someone, the phrase prompts us to surmise that the true detectives in the two novels are Chamoiseau and Confiant themselves, who have set out to detect the situation and location of créolité.
Publisher
Maurice A. Lee,Journal of Caribbean Literatures
