Les chamanes contemporains – figures d’instabilité
Contemporary shamans: figures of instability
Author(s): Anne-Sophie DonnarieixSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Studies of Literature, Comparative Study of Literature, French Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Instytut Filologii Romańskiej & Wydawnictwo Werset
Keywords: shamanism; instability; hybridization; contemporary French literature
Summary/Abstract: Antoine Volodine and Christian Garcin both make a distinctive use of shamanism in fictional novels. By multiplying shaman characters and intertwining the shamanistic principles and the narrative, they develop a poetic of instability noticeable through various hybridization processes notably strengthened by the intrusion of supernatural elements. The analysis of three motives in which this game of unstable balance is particularly mirrored – identity, History and fiction – shall turn our attention to the role of shamanism as a vector of fictional dynamism.
Journal: Quêtes littéraires
- Issue Year: 2016
- Issue No: 6
- Page Range: 187-196
- Page Count: 10
- Language: French