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A Chain of Voices: A "Masters and Slaves" Narrative
2022
Because no less than thirty different narrators take turns to tell us the story of a slave revolt, A Chain of Voices can be read as Brink's attempt at revisiting the classical "slave narrative", turning it into a polyphonic "masters and slaves" narrative in which everyone is given a say. This article examines how this polyphonic, and even multifocal, mode of narration enables Brink to write back to both classical slave narratives and to their twentieth-century counterparts, the neo-slave narratives. What it suggests is that although A Chain of Voices bears many resemblances to neo-slave narratives in terms of form, especially because of its recourse to polyphony, it is also extremely close …
Le pantheon africain
2014
La conversion religieuse, poursuivie par des ordres religieux, des confréries visant cet objectif ainsi que par de “pieux patrons”, s’articule comme un puissant système d’intégration de l’esclave. Nous analyserons ici le cas d’Antoine l’Éthiopien (mort en 1549), corsaire, musulman, marié, capturé dans la première moitié du XVIe siècle dans les eaux d’Augusta et celui de Benoît le Maure (1524-1589), né en Sicile d’esclaves originaires d’Afrique centrale déjà chrétiens. Dans ces deux cas, l’adhésion au troisième ordre franciscain devient un instrument qui permet non seulement l’affranchissement mais encore l’accès à la gloire des autels. Bienheureux le premier, saint le seco…
Les esclaves des tombes néolithiques
2010
International audience
La langue affrontée : voix intimes des domestiques dans The Cattle Killing de John Edgar Wideman
2017
The Cattle Killing traces the path a young Black itinerant preacher – a former slave reduced to vagrancy in plague-ridden 1793 Philadelphia. During his travels, he encounters Liam and Mrs. Stubbs, a Black man and a white woman, both former servants who have come from England where Liam was indentured to painter George Stubbs while his wife was Stubbs’ maid. They came to America in hope of a better life that would save them from ambiant racism. The preacher also meets Kathryn, a black woman serving the wife of a famous Abolitionnist, a Founding Father and enlightened humanist. Kathryn works as an amanuensis for her blind mistress and writes a diary the latter dictates. Yet the servant surrep…
Du silence de la soumission à l’expression de l’affection
2020
International audience; À propos de : Esclaves et maîtres dans le monde romain. Expressions épigraphiques de leurs relations. – M. Dondin-Payre, N. Tran éds. – Rome : École française de Rome, 2017. -410 p. : bibliogr., ill., index. – (Collection de l’École française de Rome, ISSN : 0223.5099 ; 527). – ISBN : 978.2.7283.1240.5.