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This study concerns the representation of space in Caribbean literature, both francophone and Anglophone and, in particular, but not only, in the martinican literature, in the works of the authors born in the island. The analysis focus on the second half of the last century, a period in which the martinican production of novels and romances increased considerably, and where the representation and the rule of space had a relevant place. So, the thesis explores the literary modalities of this representation. The work is constituted of 5 chapters and the critical and methodological approaches are both of an analytical and comparative type. The first chapter “The caribbean space: geography, history and society” presents the geographic context, through an analysis of the historical and political major events occurred in the Caribbean archipelago, in particular of the French Antilles, from the first colonization until the départementalisation. The first paragraph “The colonized space: historical-political excursus” the explores the history of the European colonization that marked forever the theatre of the relationship between Europe, Africa and the New World. This social situation take a long and complex process of “Re-appropriation and renegotiation of the space”, (second paragraph) always the space of the Other, that interest both the Antillean society and the writers’ universe. So, a series of questions take place in the third paragraph “Landscape and identity”: what is the function of space in the process of identity construction? What are the literary forms and representations of space in the Caribbean context? Could the writing be a tool of cultural identity definition, both individual and collective? The second chapter “The literary representation of the Antillean space” is a methodological analysis of the notions of literary space and descriptive gender. The first paragraph “The literary space of and in the novel” is an excursus of the theory of such critics like Blanchot, Bachelard, Genette and Greimas, and in particular the recent innovation of the 20th century; the second one “Space of the Antilles, space of the writing” is an attempt to apply this theory to the Antillean literary space. Finally the last paragraph “Signs on the page: the symbolic places of the antillean novel landscape” presents an inventory of the most recurrent antillean places (mornes, ravines, traces, cachots, En-ville,…), symbols of the history and the past, described in literary works, but according to new modalities of representation. The third chapter, the core of the thesis, “Re-drawing the map of the French Antilles” focused the study of space representation on francophone literature, in particular on a selected works of four martinican writers, like Roland Brival, Édouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphaël Confiant. Through this section, a spatial evolution comes out step by step, from the first to the second paragraph, whose titles are linked together “The novel space evolution: from the forest of the morne… to the jungle of the ville”. The virgin and uncontaminated space of the Antilles, prior to the colonisation, where the Indios lived in harmony with the nature, find a representation in both works of Brival (Le sang du roucou, Le dernier des Aloukous) and of Glissant (Le Quatrième siècle, Ormerod). The arrival of the European colonizer brings a violent and sudden metamorphosis of the originary space and landscape, together with the traditions and culture of the Caraïbes population. These radical changes are visible in the works of Chamoiseau (Chronique des sept misères, Texaco, L’esclave vieil homme et le molosse, Livret des villes du deuxième monde, Un dimanche au cachot) and Confiant (Le Nègre et l’Amiral, Eau de Café, Ravines du devant-jour, Nègre marron) that explore the urban space of the creole En-ville. The fourth chapter represents the “2nd step: the Anglophone novel space” in the exploration of literary representation of space, through an analytical study of the works of three Anglophone writers, the 19th century Lafcadio Hearn (A Midsummer Trip To the West Indies, Two Years in the French West Indies, Youma) and the contemporary authors Derek Walcott (Omeros, Map of the New World, What the Twilight says) and Edward Kamau Brathwaite (The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy). The Anglophone voice of the Caribbean archipelago brings a very interesting contribution to the critical idea of a spatial evolution in the literary representation of space, started with francophone production: “The spatial evolution goes on: from the Martiniques Sketches of Hearn… to the modern bards of Caribbean archipelago” is the new linked title of the two paragraphs. The fifth chapter “Extended look, space shared: the Caribbean archipelago” is a comparative analysis of the results achieved in the prior sections, through a dialogue between all the texts in the first paragraph “Francophone and Anglophone representation of space compared: differences and analogies”. The last paragraph instead is an attempt of re-negotiate the conventional notions of space and place, from a geographical and physical meaning, to the new concept of “commonplace”, not synonym of prejudice, but “common place” of sharing and dialogue. The question sets in the last paragraph “The “commonplaces” of the physical and mental map of the Caribbean archipelago: toward a non-place?” contains the critical idea of the entire thesis.

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Ce travail a pour objectif d’analyser la production narrative et poétique de l’écrivain tunisien Abdelwahab Meddeb, en comparaison avec les ouvrages du Moyen Age arabe et persan. L’auteur reprend en effet, par le biais de pratiques intertextuelles, les ouvrages des philosophes et des écrivains orientaux qui plus ont marqué le monde musulman, en arrivant à en faire une synthèse originale. Cette perspective multiculturelle ouvre la voie à une instance narrative polyphonique, où les textes se confondent et se mélangent. En un premier moment, l’étude porte sur les théories intertextuelles et leur application chez Meddeb ; dans la deuxième partie, l’analyse se concentre sur les correspondances internes à l’œuvre meddebienne, pour laisser la place, dans la dernière partie, aux aspects intertextuels que le texte francophone entretient avec les autres auteurs.

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A writer by passion and a psychiatric nurse by profession, Gisèle Pineau is described as the new feminine voice of the literature from the French Antilles (Martinique and Guadeloupe). In all her novels, she explores the human condition and more specifically that of women. Breaking the silence that oppresses Antillean women, Gisèle Pineau delves into the destinies of women from Guadeloupe, scrutinizing the environment of her island and elsewhere, reinventing the French language, and giving voice and identity to all those women who have never had the possibility to express themselves. After having introduced the author in a postcolonial context linked with the theory of the feminine writing and its expressions in Caribbean literature, the plight of women is described through the experience of their bodies in Antillean society and elsewhere. The author focuses on physical and psychological violence denouncing the treatment of women. Escaping from oppression, women look for the space to rebuild a new life and a new identity.

From 1986 to 1994, Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphaël Confiant published a series of fictional and non-fictional writings focusing on language issues. Interest in these themes can certainly in part be explained by the "surconscience linguistique" that Lise Gauvin attributes to Francophone authors: a linguistic over-awareness which, in the case of these two Martiniquais writers, may be attributed to their Creole-French diglossia. Although we might believe that the idea of Gauvin is right, it doesn't seem enough to explain why the linguistic theme plays such a central role in Chamoiseau's and Confiant's works. Deeply influenced by Glissant's theories on Creole popular culture and Antillean literature (Le discours antillais), they conceived a "Créolité" poetics based on a primarly identity-based and geopolitical discourse. Declaring the need to build an authentically Creole literary discourse, one that finally expresses the Martiniquais reality, Chamoiseau and Confiant (as well as Bernabé, third and last author of Éloge de la créolité) found the «foundations of [their] being» in orality and its poetics in the Creole language. This belief was maily translated into their works in two ways: by representing the (diglossic) relationships occurring between their first languages (Creole and French) and by representing the Creole parole (orality) and its function. An analysis of our authors' literary and theoretical writings will enable us to show how two works that develop around the same themes and thesis have in fact produced very divergent results, which were perhaps already perceivable in the main ambiguities of their common manifestos. / Presque contemporains les uns des autres, les premiers récits en français (1986-1994) de Patrick Chamoiseau et de Raphaël Confiant manifestent un vif intérêt pour les questions des langues qu'ils placent au sein de leurs pratiques littéraires. Si la centralité du thème linguistique peut s'expliquer en partie par cette «surconscience linguistique» que Lise Gauvin répère chez tout écrivain francophone – et qui relèverait de la diglossie martiniquaise (créole-français) dans le cas de nos deux écrivains –, elle prend un tout autre essor chez Chamoiseau et Confiant. Fortement influencés par les théories glissantiennes sur la culture populaire créole et la littérature antillaise à fonder (Le discours antillais), ces romanciers martiniquais conçoivent une poétique de la Créolité qui se greffe sur un discours premièrement identitaire et géopolitique. Ayant déclaré la nécessité de bâtir un discours littéraire authentiquement créole, un discours qui enfin sache dire le réel martiniquais, Chamoiseau et Confiant (ainsi que Bernabé, troisième signataire du manifeste de l'Éloge de la créolité) repèrent dans l'oralité (créole) l'expression du «fondement de [leur] être» et dans la langue créole la poétique de ce fondement. Une conviction qu'ils traduisent dans leurs récits en français de plusieurs manières. Cette thèse examine d'une part la mise en scène des rapports (diglossiques) entre leurs langues premières (créole et français) et, d'autre part, la mise en scène de la «parole» (l'oralité) créole et de son fonctionnement. L'analyse des textes littéraires et des discours théoriques des auteurs nous permettra de montrer comment deux œuvres développant les mêmes thèmes et s'appuyant sur les mêmes discours produisent des résultats très divergents qui sont peut-être déjà lisibles dans les ambiguïtés premières de leurs textes manifestaires communs.

La ricerca Il rapporto madre-figlia nelle letterature femminili maghrebine (1980-2010) comprende due sezioni: la prima analizza le principali caratteristiche del mondo maghrebino femminile e le peculiarità della scrittura dell’intellettuale nord-africana, la seconda è incentrata sull’analisi testuale dei romanzi maghrebini femminili più rappresentativi. Il lavoro di analisi verte sullo studio di varie autrici maghrebine che coprono un vasto ventaglio temporale: dal 1980 al 2010. Di ogni autrice vengono analizzati i romanzi in cui è possibile rinvenire la tematica oggetto della tesi: il rapporto madre-figlia. I romanzi studiati sono raggruppati secondo quattro macro direttrici tematiche: i romanzi in cui il rapporto filiale è caratterizzato dalla violenza; le opere in cui il rapporto madre-figlia è caratterizzato dall’assenza fisica della genitrice; i romanzi in cui il rapporto filiale è caratterizzato dall’incomprensione ed infine le produzioni in cui la relazionalità madre-figlia è caratterizzata da un rapporto di amore e sostegno reciproco. / The research Il rapporto madre-figlia nelle letterature femminili maghrebine (1980-2010) includes two different sections: the first part analyses the most important characteristics of the maghrebian female world and explains the most particular aspects of the maghrebian female literature; the second section includes four chapters and each one analyses two or three maghrebian female novels which explain a particular aspect of the mother-daughter relationship. Violent or absent, unable to understand the identity fractures of her daughter or generous, the mother personage is a literary symbol: the maghrebian female novelist uses the mother personage to vehicle her opinion about her maghrebian world. In conclusion, the research Il rapporto madre-figlia nelle letterature femminili maghrebine (1980-2010) analyses the literary mother symbol to know the different opinions that maghrebian female novelists want to vehicle about their existential milieu: violent or indifferent, anachronistic or generous, the Maghreb is a mosaic of contradictions, a dual world which ignore the female richness. Saving North-Africa means saving women: all mothers must orient the maghrebian future to a democratic process of innovation and growth, they must destroy that anachronistic and integralist mask which occult the true maghrebian identity.

La publication de nombreuses œuvres, à la fois littéraires et picturales, entre 1870 et 1914, inspirées par l’épisode biblique du meurtre de Jean Baptiste par Salomé, s’inscrit dans une crise qui touche à cette époque, en Europe, aussi bien le sujet que la notion de représentation. Le mythe de Salomé permet de poursuivre une réflexion de nature littéraire, historique et esthétique concernant le processus d’autonomisation de l’art. À partir des sources bibliques et antiques, dans lesquelles Salomé et Jean Baptiste incarnent respectivement le monde païen en conflit avec le monde chrétien, ces deux personnages font graduellement leur entrée dans l’univers de la fiction. Ils sont au cœur de la transition d’une lecture transcendante — reliée particulièrement à la tradition catholique — de l’épisode tragique qui les unit, à une lecture immanente qui en fait deux instances purement esthétiques. La danseuse et le dernier des prophètes émergent dans la littérature et dans l’art occidentaux comme deux pôles symboliques, liés l’un à l’autre par différents types de relation, susceptibles d’être librement réinvestis par de nouvelles significations et à l’écart des conventions. Si, dans la première partie du XIXe siècle, Salomé et Jean Baptiste sont encore liés à leur sens orthodoxe, au tournant du siècle ils finissent par s’autonomiser de l’Écriture et donnent lieu à de multiples récritures et à des adaptations inattendues. Celles-ci ressortissent alors moins du blasphème à proprement parler que d’un témoignage emblématique d’une transformation du rapport que l’artiste entretient avec son œuvre. Celui-ci, en s’identifiant avec le prophète décollé, se mesure à l’œuvre d’art, qui est incarnée par Salomé. La relation entre Salomé et Jean Baptiste, dans ces diverses représentations, exprime et reflète le moment où art et littérature se reconnaissent comme fictions. / The publication, between 1870 and 1914, of numerous literary and pictorial works inspired by the Biblical story of the murder of John the Baptist by Salomé reflects a wider crisis that affected both the subject and the concept of representation at that time in Europe. The myth of Salomé permits us to pursue a literary, historical and aesthetic reflection concerning the progressive autonomy of art. From Biblical and ancient sources, in which Salome and John the Baptist respectively embodied the pagan world and its conflicting relationship with the Christian world, these two characters gradually entered the world of fiction. They are indeed at the heart of a transition from a transcendent reading – especially related to the Catholic tradition – to an immanent reading of the tragic episode that unites them, which turns them into two purely aesthetic objects. The dancer and the last of the prophets thus emerge in Western literature and art as two symbolic extremes, which can be linked to each other by different kinds of relationships, which can have new changeable meanings, and which are far away from all convention. If, in the first part of the nineteenth century, Salome and John the Baptist are still bound to their orthodox interpretation, at the turn of the century they eventually gain independence from the Scriptures, and this gives rise to multiple rewritings and unexpected adaptations. These adaptations, however, prove less blasphemous, as they symbolically provide the proof of the very transformation of the relationship between the artist and their work. The artist, who identifies himself with the prophet, is measured with his artwork, represented by Salome. The relationship between Salome and John the Baptist, throughout the various representations, thus expresses and reflects the very moment when art and literature began to think themselves as fiction.