| Type of Document |
Master's Thesis |
| Author |
Hill, Andrew Walton
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| Author's Email Address |
ahill31@tigers.lsu.edu |
| URN |
etd-04262012-163640 |
| Title |
Simmering in the Tombs: The Role of the Zombie in Patrick Chamoiseau's Chronique des Sept Misères and Simone Schwarz-Bart's Ti Jean L'horizon |
| Degree |
Master of Arts (M.A.) |
| Department |
French Studies |
| Advisory Committee |
| Advisor Name |
Title |
| Ngandu Nkashama, Pius |
Committee Chair |
| Peters, Rosemary |
Committee Member |
| Yeager, Jack |
Committee Member |
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| Keywords |
- zombies
- Simone Schwarz-Bart
- Creole
- Patrick Chamoiseau
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| Date of Defense |
2012-04-18 |
| Availability |
unrestricted |
Abstract
The figure of the zombie is a recurring trope for writers in the French Antilles. Two of the most influential and popular authors in modern French-Antillean literature are Patrick Chamoiseau from Martinique and Simone Schwarz-Bart from Guadeloupe. Both of these authors use the figure of the zombie as representations of colonization and the lingering trauma of slavery in Antillean society. In this thesis, I examine two of the most well-known works by these authors, Chamoiseau’s Chronique des Sept Misères (1986) and Schwarz-Bart’s Ti Jean L’horizon (1979), and how these texts use the nature of the zombie in an effort to define Antillean identity. I argue that it is through the use of the zombie in these texts that Schwarz-Bart and Chamoiseau are able to create a portrait of Antillean culture which, as well as illustrating the importance of history, also proposes a plan to strengthen Antillean identity and literature in the future.
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