abstract: La escritura de José Martí en sus primeros años como escritor y periodista se desenvuelve en una atmósfera política tan dinámica como el entorno cultural al que se expone a su llegada a México desde su experiencia diaspórica en España. Por ello, este estudio propone situar la etapa mexicana de Martí desde marzo de 1875 hasta diciembre de 1875 como un episodio clave en el desarrollo crítico de sus ideas centrales. Por lo tanto, esta investigación radica en el estudio de los elementos que participan en la formulación martiana en torno al concepto de cultura como síntoma de las nuevas sociedades latinoamericanas, mismo que aparece acorde y en intrínseca relación con el concepto de independencia que Martí articula particularmente en "Nuestra América" (1891). Por lo tanto, para los propósitos de esta investigación y partiendo del reconocimiento de la ausencia de un acercamiento crítico a esta etapa de Martí, es necesario observar detenidamente las relaciones entre el ámbito político y social tanto en México como en Cuba para así comprender sus aportes literario-periodísticos. Asimismo, es imprescindible un acercamiento múltiple en distintos niveles que permitan comprender el panorama intelectual y los debates que se formulan durante el siglo XIX en México y en los cuales Martí participa activamente. Dichos elementos en conjunto son fundamentales para comprender la expresión martiana como una de las vías de transmisión tanto de su estética como de sus preocupaciones e intereses modernistas. Se incluye en este análisis la escritura pública de los diarios capitalinos tales como El Partido Liberal y El Federalista, en los que Martí publica de manera prolífica durante los casi dos años de estancia en el país. Asimismo, ha sido pertinente observar su anotaciones privadas pertenecientes a los Cuadernos de Apuntes, los cuales escritos durante los mismos años en México, no fueron destinados originalmente para su publicación. Añadir las anotaciones personales de Martí a este estudio contribuye a enriquecer la perspectiva de este periodo. Como se observa, las formulaciones críticas de Martí conviven con los debates que circulaban en la capital mexicana en relación a los procesos de descolonización e independencia. Por lo tanto, la importancia de reevaluar los elementos que inmortalizan a José Martí no solo como un ícono cubano y figura emblemática transnacional permiten observar sus primigenias acepciones en torno a la identidad hispanoamericana. Asimismo, el aporte académico que añade este estudio reside en la presentación de conflictos y discursos heterogéneos que impactan las definiciones en torno a prensa y literatura de José Martí, una de las mentes más innovadoras y perspicaces del siglo XIX, cuya relevancia literaria continúa siendo pertinente. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Spanish 2018

Escritores/as pós-coloniais têm se engajado em denunciar o doloroso legado da escravidão e do colonialismo, através da recuperação de histórias previamente apropriadas e distorcidas por narrativas mestras. A investigação e a narrativização do passado esquecido de ex-colônias têm sido uma estratégia empregada no sentido de se reconstruir identidades que foram fragmentadas devido às múltiplas opressões sofridas ou testemunhadas por autores. Michelle Cliff é uma romancista, poeta, e ensaísta diaspórica, nascida na Jamaica e que vive nos Estados Unidos. Ela é uma das muitas vozes pós-coloniais comprometidas com uma literatura de resistência que luta pela descolonização cultural e encoraja o sentimento de pertencimento. O objetivo dessa dissertação é analisar os romances de cunho autobiográfico de Cliff, Abeng (1984) e No Telephone to Heaven (1987), que lidam com questões relacionadas às práticas coloniais e pós-coloniais. Os dois romances retratam a saga da protagonista Clare Savage, através da qual Cliff revela o impacto da colonização no Caribe, denuncia as configurações de poder geradas a partir dos imbricamentos entre raça, gênero e classe, e critica a maneira deturpada como a história da Jamaica é transmitida e disseminada através da educação colonial à qual os Jamaicanos são submetidos. A autora também explora os efeitos que as diásporas exercem no processo de construção identitária e o movimento de resgate e recriação de uma história própria por parte dos sujeitos diaspóricos / Postcolonial writers have been engaged in exposing the painful legacies of slavery and colonialism, through the reclaiming of histories that have been appropriated and distorted by master narratives. The investigation and retelling of the lost past of former colonies has been a strategy used to reconstruct identities fragmented as a result of the multiple oppressions that authors have suffered or witnessed. Michelle Cliff is a diasporic Jamaican-born novelist, poet, and essayist who lives in the United States. She is one of the many postcolonial voices committed to a literature of resistance that struggles for cultural decolonization and encourages the feeling of belonging. The aim of this dissertation is to analyze Cliffs semi-autobiographical novels, Abeng (1984) and No Telephone to Heaven (1987) that deal with matters related to colonial and post-colonial practices. The two novels portray the saga of the protagonist Clare Savage, through which Cliff reveals the impact of colonization on the Caribbean, exposes the configurations of power deriving from the intertwining of race, class, and gender, and criticizes the misrepresentation of Jamaicas history, which is disseminated through the colonial education Jamaicans have been subjected to. The author also explores the effects diasporas have on the process of identity construction and the movement from diasporic subjects to rescue and recreate a history of their own

The purpose of this thesis is to examine Michelle Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven (1996), and to scrutinize, through Christopher’s mental illness, the couched, unspoken, and deeply embedded presence of imperial hegemony in the Caribbean. I shall argue that Christopher’s mental illness is not, as one might have it, an inexplicable lapse into insanity, but both a fitting, polyrhythmic expression of longstanding postcolonial/neocolonial abuse, and a dynamic form of counterhegemonic resistance. Thus, my use of the term, imperial illness, refers to colonial impacts on the Caribbean, and how those impacts continue to play a significant role in postcolonial/neocolonial societies and, concurrently, the strategies imagined by postcolonial subjects to resist. Christopher’s mental illness, then, is the result of sustained imperial socio-psychological torment, which produces, quite ironically, the conditions that make possible his acts of resistance.

“But What Has Helga Crane to Do with the West Indies? Plantation Afterlives in the Black Atlantic” situates the emergence of the southern gothic in modernist American and Caribbean works as a response to the shifting cultural narrative of the plantation in the twentieth century. In this project, I argue that the plantation seeps out of its place and time to haunt landscapes it may never have touched and times in which slavery is long over. While the plantation system is broadly recognized as a literary, political, and cultural force in nineteenth-century literary studies, I conceive it is also a driving force of southern literature even after the physical plantations begin to fade. In this project, I examine how literary portrayals of plantations flourish in the 1920s and 30s, from the writings of the Nashville Agrarians to the popularity of Gone with the Wind, arguing that this period represents a literary re-mythologizing of the plantation’s legacy as a benevolent and positive model for the south. A significant contribution of this dissertation is then in demonstrating how plantations are present in works that are not traditionally understood as plantation fiction, and that these works offer a resistance to this re-mythologizing through turning to the gothic: the transatlantic plantation gothic in Nella Larsen’s Quicksand and Jean Rhys’ Voyage in the Dark, the impact of environmental labor on the plantation gothic in Jean Toomer’s Cane and Eric Walrond’s Tropic Death, and finally, how plantation modernity affects portrayals of natural disasters in plantation territories in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!. Ultimately, this project contributes to the discussion of plantation modernity currently occurring in Southern Studies beyond the nineteenth century and into the modernist period, while also demonstrating how movements often construed as disparate in American literary studies, like the Harlem Renaissance and the Nashville Agrarians, were actually in close conversation.

Depuis quelques décennies, nous assistons dans le champ littéraire caribéen francophone à la prolifération d’écrits dans lesquels les écrivains font le récit de leur propre vie. Ces récits que nous pourrions répertorier dans les « écritures du moi » semblent fortement marqués de l’empreinte autobiographique. Pourtant, au regard des travaux réalisés par Philippe Lejeune et Georges Gusdorf sur le genre, ces œuvres, pétries de traces autobiographiques, semblent en contourner les canons.Notre recherche consiste donc à nous interroger sur ce qui pourrait empêcher la classification de ces récits comme des autobiographies, au sens strict du terme. Nous émettons l’hypothèse d’un détournement des règles propres au genre inhérent au « moi empêché » de l’auteur, ou bien à l’affirmation d’un polymorphisme du genre (en contexte caribéen francophone).L’autobiographie serait-elle purement occidentale ? En nous appuyant sur un corpus d’une douzaine d’œuvres, dont les écrivains sont issus de la Caraïbe francophone (Patrick Chamoiseau et Raphaël Confiant pour la Martinique ; Maryse Condé, Henri Corbin, Daniel Maximin pour la Guadeloupe ; Jan-J. Dominique et Émile Ollivier pour Haïti), nous tenterons de répondre à cette problématique. / Since recent decades, we are seeing a proliferation of papers in the French Caribbean literature in which writers talk about themselves, the story of their own life. These narratives which could be list as “writings of myself” seem strongly marked with autobiographical imprint. Nevertheless, according to the works of Philippe Lejeune and Georges Gusdorf about the genre, these works molded by autobiographical tracks seem to stretch the rules. This present research deals with wondering about what could prevent the classification of these narratives as real autobiographies, in the strict sense of the word. We emit the hypothesis of a diversion of rules appropriate to the inherent genre in the “self-restraint” of the author, either in the assertion of a polymorphism of the genre (in the French-speaking Caribbean context)Is the autobiography a pure European genre?Basing on a corpus of a dozen of works, writers who arise from the French-Speaking Caribbean (Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphaël Confiant for Martinica; Maryse Condé, Henri Corbin and Daniel Maximin for Guadeloupe; J.-J. Dominique and Emile Ollivier for Haïti), we shall try to answer this problematic.

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Ce sont les pensées de Jean-Georges Chali qui ont inspiré l’essai de ce mémoire en soulignant les liens étroits qui unissent les contes créoles à une poétique de la subversion. En préservant la tradition orale par le biais de l’oraliture, les contes créoles écrits visent à se réapproprier et à reconstruire une identité jusqu’alors spoliée des peuples africains déplacés dans la Caraïbe. Mon corpus se compose de deux textes qui jonglent avec les thèmes du conte créole, de la figure du conteur et de l’identité : Le Romancero aux étoiles de Jacques-Stephen Alexis et Solibo Magnifique de Patrick Chamoiseau. La perte des traditions orales est au cœur des deux textes qui proposent l’écriture comme successeure et gardienne de la mémoire et de l’imaginaire collectifs. Dans L’île de sel et de corail, réécriture du conte de La Petite Sirène de Hans Christian Andersen, Anae, suite à un pacte avec une sorcière, est forcée de quitter son île natale pour venir s’installer à Montréal et découvrir un monde nouveau, intriguant et semé d’embuches. Ce changement de lieu et de repères illustre, avec les outils narratifs du conte, une réflexion sur l’immigration et les enjeux identitaires qui en découlent. / The essay component of this memoire is inspired by the work of Jean-Georges Chali, which highlights the many links between Caribbean folk tales and a ‘poetic of subversion’. By preserving the oral tradition through the genre of oraliture, Caribbean folk tales, in their written form, seek to reappropriate and reconstruct an identity that was plundered from displaced and enslaved African peoples during their exportation to the Caribbean. My corpus includes two representative texts that juggle with the themes of Caribbean folk tales, the figure of the oral ‘conteur’ or narrator, and identity: namely, Le Romancero aux étoiles by Jacques-Stephen Alexis and Solibo Magnifique by Patrick Chamoiseau. The loss of oral traditions is at the heart of these two texts, which treat the written literary form as a successor to the oral tradition of storytelling and a guardian of the collective memory and imagination of their communities. In a re-creation of the famous European folk tale, The Little Mermaid, by Hans Christian Andersen, the main protagonist Anae, following her pact with a local sorcerer, is forced to leave her native island of Ebor and move to the island of Montreal, where she discovers a new and intriguing world strewn with pitfalls. This change of locale and scenery engenders a reflection on questions of immigration, identity struggles, and social norms and values that stimulate the reader – in this case, assumed to be a Montreal audience – to critically reflect on their own society.

Il presente elaborato si propone di esplorare la tradizione del romanzo di formazione caraibico considerando il genere del romanzo di formazione, le sue caratteristiche, la sua storia, e individuando le peculiarità che il genere ha sviluppato all'interno della tradizione post-coloniale, soprattutto nel contesto caraibico di lingua inglese. Il primo capitolo stabilisce cosa si intenda con “romanzo di formazione caraibico” e introduce i dodici romanzi selezionati per questo studio. La tesi quindi procede identificando quattro argomenti principali, o macro temi, a ciascuno dei quali è dedicato un capitolo, e confrontando il modo in cui questi vengono sviluppati nei diversi romanzi. I temi sono: la scuola e l’istruzione, la cultura e la storia, la politica, la partenza. La tesi si chiude con una breve riflessione sul tema del ritorno. / The present study aims to explore the Caribbean Bildungsroman tradition by considering the Bildungsroman genre, its features, and history, and by pointing out the peculiarities that the genre developed within the postcolonial tradition and specifically in the anglophone Caribbean context. The first chapter establishes what is meant by “Caribbean Bildungsroman” and introduces the twelve novels selected for this study. The study then proceeds by identifying four main topics, or macro themes, each developed in a separate chapter, and by comparing the way such themes are dealt with in each of the novels. The themes are: school and education, culture and history, politics, departure. The study closes on a brief reflection on the possibility of return.

Le roman sentimental est un des genres les plus lus, les plus traduits et les plus diffusés. Malgré sa mauvaise réputation, il est étonnant de constater le nombre de ces romans vendus, tous pays confondus. Dans les Antilles, ce phénomène est particulièrement palpable : la présence, et la réception de ces œuvres témoignent de l’engouement pour le genre. Notre étude a pour objectif de dégager d’un corpus sentimental antillais les aspects les plus significatifs. Nous analyserons, d’une part, le schéma narratif élaboré en marge de celui proposé par le roman sentimental classique et, d’autre part, l’esthétique du quotidien mise en place pour créer un sentiment d’appartenance chez le lectorat. Il nous sera ainsi possible de mettre en évidence le discours socioculturel propre à ce genre et plus spécifiquement aux femmes antillaises. Par ailleurs, cette recherche postule que l'appropriation des invariants romanesques et l'élaboration d'une visée didactique participent à l'intégration du roman sentimental antillais dans la sphère des littératures « sérieuses ». Enfin, ce mémoire défend l’idée selon laquelle l’écriture romanesque des auteures étudiées contribue au projet littéraire antillais de réappropriation identitaire. / The sentimental novel is one of the most read, translated and accessible literary genres. Considering its sales rating, its frivolous reputation seems to be a misleading one. Indeed, in the Caribbean, the overall presence and reception of the novels is an indicator of its phenomenal popularity. We consider that the following aspects of the Caribbean sentimental novel are the most significant ones. Firstly, we underline that the specificity of the narrative patterns of these novels is due to its singularity vis-à-vis the canonical sentimental novel. Secondly, these novels tend to create a very strong sense of nationhood for the readers which are generated by a careful depiction of the everyday life. These previous aspects allow us to underscore the fact that the studied novels interact with the Caribbean social-cultural discourse while insisting on the topic of the female condition. This research brings to light the fact that the appropriation of the novelistic schemes as well as the didactic within allows to consider the Caribbean sentimental novel as a part of the institutionally recognized literary productions. Finally, our essay demonstrates that the novels of these “female writers” contribute to the consolidation of the national identity.