By Anne M. François
Rewriting The go back to Africa: Voices of Francophone Caribbean ladies Writers examines the methods Guadeloupean girls writers Maryse Cond?, Simone Schwarz-Bart and Myriam Warner-Vieyra demystify the subject matter of the go back to Africa rather than the its masculinist model via N?gritude male writers from the Thirties to Sixties. N?gritude, a cultural and literary circulate, drew a lot of its energy from the belief of a legendary or cultural reconnection with the African previous allegorized as a mom determine. against this those ladies writers, of the post-colonial period who're to giant quantity heirs of N?gritude, fluctuate sharply from their male opposite numbers of their illustration of Africa. of their novels, the continent isn't represented as a propitious mom determine yet a disappointing father determine. This examine argues that those ladies writers' subversion of the metaphorical determine of Africa and its transformation is tied to their gender. the ladies novelists are certainly severe of a feminine allegorization of the land that's resembling a colonial or nationalist undertaking and a simplistic illustration of motherhood that doesn't mirror the complexities of the Diaspora's relation to origins and identification. in contrast to the first male writers of the N?gritude stream, they rigorously "gendered" the thought of go back by means of picking woman protagonists who made their as far back as the Motherland looking for id. I argue that writing is a improved area for the feminine topic looking id since it permits her to have a voice and turn into topic instead of item as that used to be the case with the N?gritude writers. the ladies writers' shattering of clone of mom Africa and as a result that of dad Africa highlights the complicated dating among Africa and the Diaspora from a feminine perspective. It shifts the identification quest of the characters in the direction of the Caribbean, which emerges because the genuine difficult mom: a multi-faceted, fragmented determine that displays the constitutive conflict that happened within the archipela
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Marie-Hélène’s in Une saison à Rihata is trapped in a socio-cultural space dominated by patriarchal control and condescension. Surrounded by her large brood and confined in a colonial house, she continues to live in external and internal exile in Africa. Both novels, situated in the lineage of Caribbean fiction on the issues of race, gender, cultural alienation, identity, and politics, are remarkable literary statements on the dangers of the discourse of origins. POLITICS/LOVE/FRIENDSHIP The problem with Véronica is that most of her actions are dictated by her love for Ibrahim and her fascination with him.
She thinks they should be blamed for falling victims to slavery and racial oppression. The reader might think she is on the side of the colonial oppressors. Return to Africa and the Caribbean 7 Condé may have a point in reminding us readers and critics to be cautious in our reading practices and interpretations. Véronica does not seem complicit in vilifying racial stereotypes, as it may appear. However, she may be running the risk of being called a racist because of her French-Caribbeannes and her irreverent attitude toward Africa.
It is not because one is a woman that one writes good books and has important things to say. Warning, danger! For me, a writer is a writer, whether it is a woman or a man. ] (80) The Francophone Caribbean women writers whose works I examine in this study do not ally themselves to the radical, critical trends in the feminist movement. Several women writers from the Diaspora have the tendency to dissociate themselves from the feminist movement though their texts have a Return to Africa and the Caribbean 15 clear feminist perspective.