La caricature ou le mystère des mots bourdonnant aux oreilles dans Le Nègre du Gouverneur de Serge Patient
The caricature or mystery of words buzzing in the ears in Serge Patient’s The Governor’s Negro

Summary/Abstract: The caricature, in its most elementary representation, in its polysemy, its multiple extensions, refers to the burden, to the “fagot load” causing man to moan, to bend and to walk bent “with heavy steps”. Writers, such as comedians or painters of modern life, strive to combine the norms of representation and to distort words to emphasize the animality of man. Serge Patient, in his column entitled The Governor’s Negro published in 1978, propels us back in time, into the collective Guyanese imagination and invites us to focus on a black slave, D’Chimbo. It is then up to the reader to decipher the data, correct them or blame them by laughing brutally or domesticating the laughter. With soothed or revived laughter and words buzzing weaker in the ears, what language and clichés could still emerge?

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