Return to my native land by Aime Cesaire is a poetic Notebook expressing the emotions of a West Indian coming back to his island. It is one of the founding texts of Negritude. The author is torn between two cultures, on one side his native Black land, Martinique, on the other the colonizer's, who gave him a French education, which predisposes him to a duality through his writing. Cesaire's writing is also influenced by different artistic movements that surround him. This thesis explores a subtle yet perceptible aspect, not normally apparent during one's reading of the Notebook: the voices. The land, the return, and the Negritude are three of the author's main preoccupations. These themes are expressed through voices in the text. After having explained this notion, the linear analysis will define their place in space and in time, coinciding with the chronology of the movements in the text. We will see the different modes of expression of the narrator, the fluctuation of tones, from cries, to anger, to tears, to exaltation which do not always belong to the oral domain. This work attempts to offer a new unrestrictive alternative to the reading of the Notebook.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.30176 |
| Date | January 1999 |
| Creators | Horn, Michael Edward. |
| Contributors | Chapdelaine, Annik (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | French |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Département de langue et littérature françaises.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001746017, proquestno: MQ64158, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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