Désolation de la « France australe »

• Published in: Viatica
• Main Author: Guillaume Thouroude
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; French
• Published: Université Clermont Auvergne 2019
• Subjects: Kauffmann (Jean-Paul); Kerguelen (Yves de); “Southern France”; postcolonialism; captivity; Literature (General); PN1-6790; Antarctic; Kerguelen; Kerguelen Islands; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.52497/viatica160; https://doaj.org/article/985c9feb6469415aada163caf7d2b59e

Between 1985 and 1988, Jean-Paul Kauffmann travelled through the Kerguelen Islands, a district of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands. From these journeys, he drafted a narrative entitled L’Arche des Kerguelen, in which he set himself the task of describing the fate of Yves de Kerguelen and reviving the political, economic and cultural issues involved in the discovery of the southern lands and the phantasmagorical composition of a "Southern France". However, his text depicts a much more a disastrous story: his own story as a former prisoner, but also that of Yves de Kerguelen.