Mayotte Capécia, ou, L'aliénation selon Fanon
Mayotte Capécia, victim of a "summary execution" on the part of Frantz Fanon, has remained until today a kind of plague of West Indian literature. Christiane Makward is not satisfied with retracing the portrait of this ill-loved one; more than rehabilitating her as an author, she reveals her exceptional qualities as a woman. Indeed, it is not the least paradox of this study that to dispossess in large part Mr. Capécia of his qualities of writer, in particular by underlining his initial illiteracy, to, finally, discover a mixed-race Martinique resulting from an environment. popular, who, like so many others, and better than others, has been able to challenge his condition. Like an attractive woman, but "alienated", subject to both the male and the white, this study, based on documents hitherto kept secret, replaces that of a courageous woman, concerned above all with dignity and independence. The insignificant Mayotte, born of ignorance and Fanonian prejudices, gives way to a real heroine, a pendant of the Creole "Ti-Jean", at the same time cunning, pragmatic and obstinate, endowed with an ambition that only death managed to annihilate
Biographies
230 pages ; 22 cm.
9782865378609, 2865378608
41529778