Decolonial Metatextualities: Strategies of Resistance in Three Contemporary Novels of Oceania
International audience Decolonial thinkers have stressed that to decolonise is not to reject the colonial legacy, but to deal with it, and to centre First Nations’ perspectives in its critique and in decolonising knowledge. As a critical relationship of a text – with itself, other texts, literature,...
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International audience Decolonial thinkers have stressed that to decolonise is not to reject the colonial legacy, but to deal with it, and to centre First Nations’ perspectives in its critique and in decolonising knowledge. As a critical relationship of a text – with itself, other texts, literature, and culture – metatextuality is a literary device operationalized in contemporary novels to resist persisting colonial powers. In this paper, we present three works of fiction by Indigenous writers of Oceania, and analyse their political use of metatextuality: L’île des rêves écrasés (Island of Shattered Dreams), by Tahitian author Chantal Spitz (1991); The Yield, by Aboriginal Wiradjuri novelist Tara June Winch (2019); and After Story, by Aboriginal Eualeyai/Kamillaroi writer Larissa Behrendt (2021). Centred on First Nations’ characters from Tahiti and Australia, these novels expose how they are racialised, marginalised, and constructed as inferior in postcolonising societies; and how, at the same time, these Indigenous characters are legitimate knowers and storytellers, reflecting on Western literature (often ironically), on their own marginality, and on their ancestral knowledges and languages. Borrowing from decolonial theorists Tlostanova and Mignolo’s (2012) ‘border thinking’, we propose that these novels deploy a ‘writing from the border’. Les penseur.se.s décoloniaux.ales soulignent que décoloniser ne signifie pas rejeter l’héritage colonial, mais y faire face en centrant les perspectives des Premières Nations. En tant que relation critique qu’un texte entretient avec lui-même, avec d’autres textes, avec la littérature et la culture en général, la métatextualité est un procédé littéraire employé dans les romans contemporains pour résister aux relations de pouvoir coloniales persistantes. Dans cet article, nous présentons trois œuvres de fiction par des autrices autochtones océaniennes et nous analysons leur emploi politique de la métatextualité : L’île des rêves écrasés (Island of Shattered Dreams) par ... |
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ftccsdartic:oai:HAL:hal-04153202v1 2023-10-09T21:51:32+02:00 Decolonial Metatextualities: Strategies of Resistance in Three Contemporary Novels of Oceania Métatextualités décoloniales : stratégies de résistance dans trois romans contemporains d'Océanie Charon, Mylène Lehartel, Temiti Héritages : Culture(s), Patrimoine(s), Création(s) (Héritages - UMR 9022) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ministère de la Culture (MC)-CY Cergy Paris Université (CY) CY Cergy Paris Université - UFR Lettres et sciences humaines (CY UFR LSH) CY Cergy Paris Université (CY) Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (RMIT University) Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM) 2023 https://hal.science/hal-04153202 https://hal.science/hal-04153202/document https://hal.science/hal-04153202/file/charon--lehartel-indigenous-metatextuality-tahiti--australia.pdf https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.22.1.2023.3964 en eng HAL CCSD James Cook University info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.25120/etropic.22.1.2023.3964 hal-04153202 https://hal.science/hal-04153202 https://hal.science/hal-04153202/document https://hal.science/hal-04153202/file/charon--lehartel-indigenous-metatextuality-tahiti--australia.pdf doi:10.25120/etropic.22.1.2023.3964 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 1448-2940 etropics : electronic journal of studies in the tropics https://hal.science/hal-04153202 etropics : electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2023, Decolonizing the Tropics: Part One, 22 (1), pp.197-214. ⟨10.25120/etropic.22.1.2023.3964⟩ https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3964 Oceania decolonial postcolonising comparative literature metafiction First Nations Aboriginal Indigenous intertextuality reflexivity décolonial postcolonial métatextualité intertextualité littérature comparée Premières Nations Aborigène Autochtone Océanie [SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2023 ftccsdartic https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.22.1.2023.3964 2023-09-23T23:08:23Z International audience Decolonial thinkers have stressed that to decolonise is not to reject the colonial legacy, but to deal with it, and to centre First Nations’ perspectives in its critique and in decolonising knowledge. As a critical relationship of a text – with itself, other texts, literature, and culture – metatextuality is a literary device operationalized in contemporary novels to resist persisting colonial powers. In this paper, we present three works of fiction by Indigenous writers of Oceania, and analyse their political use of metatextuality: L’île des rêves écrasés (Island of Shattered Dreams), by Tahitian author Chantal Spitz (1991); The Yield, by Aboriginal Wiradjuri novelist Tara June Winch (2019); and After Story, by Aboriginal Eualeyai/Kamillaroi writer Larissa Behrendt (2021). Centred on First Nations’ characters from Tahiti and Australia, these novels expose how they are racialised, marginalised, and constructed as inferior in postcolonising societies; and how, at the same time, these Indigenous characters are legitimate knowers and storytellers, reflecting on Western literature (often ironically), on their own marginality, and on their ancestral knowledges and languages. Borrowing from decolonial theorists Tlostanova and Mignolo’s (2012) ‘border thinking’, we propose that these novels deploy a ‘writing from the border’. Les penseur.se.s décoloniaux.ales soulignent que décoloniser ne signifie pas rejeter l’héritage colonial, mais y faire face en centrant les perspectives des Premières Nations. En tant que relation critique qu’un texte entretient avec lui-même, avec d’autres textes, avec la littérature et la culture en général, la métatextualité est un procédé littéraire employé dans les romans contemporains pour résister aux relations de pouvoir coloniales persistantes. Dans cet article, nous présentons trois œuvres de fiction par des autrices autochtones océaniennes et nous analysons leur emploi politique de la métatextualité : L’île des rêves écrasés (Island of Shattered Dreams) par ... Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Premières Nations Archive ouverte HAL (Hyper Article en Ligne, CCSD - Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics 22 1 197 214 |