„Manger l’autre” (2018) : pour une autre poétique insulaire
“Manger l’autre” (2018): For Another Insular Poetics

Summary/Abstract: Ananda Devis’s Manger l’autre (or “Eating the other”), published in 2018, is a western novel in its description of places as well as in the sociological issues it covers, but it remains nevertheless a very insular novel, although not necessarily limited to Mauritius. This study aims indeed at uncovering a different type of insular poetics in Devi’s writing, one that is constructed around a contextualised intertext made out of À l’autre bout du monde (1979), a Mauritian novel about exile which is being pursued, and of Paul et Virginie (1788), the founding novel of Mauritian literature. The theme of the obese character’s isolation and her relation to the outside world is not just a playful echo, it translates the fundamental isolation of the islander.

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