Le texte comme performance et transmission infinie des Caraïbes dans l’œuvre en mouvement de Rita Indiana

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Rita Indiana, Dominican Republic, Literary performances, Musicality, Orality

Abstract

Rita Indiana was born in the Dominican Republic in 1977. She is a writer, singer, songwriter and performer. She is the author of short stories, gathered in several collections : Rumiantes (1998), Ciencia succión (2001) and six novels : La estrategia de Chochueca (2003), Papi (2005), Nombres y animales (2013), La mucama de Omincunlé (2015), Hecho en Saturno (2018). La mucama de Omincunlé received in 2017 the Grand Prize of the Association of Caribbean Writers. This novel was translated into English and published as Tentacle. Rita Indiana has participated in a large number of artistic collective projects. This paper addresses the close link between transmission and orality, writing and musicality. The aim is to demonstrate how Rita Indiana creates a transmission based on literary performance. Her novels express and transmit the complete vitality of Caribbean art.

Author Biography

Catherine Pélage, University of Orléans

Catherine Pélage is Associate Professor specialised in 20th-21st century Latin-American literature and civilization at the University of Orleans. She obtained a PhD from Sorbonne University and an Habilitation to supervise research at the University of Orleans. She has published articles about both Chilean and Dominican literature as well as the book Diamela Eltit, les déplacements du féminin ou la poétique en mouvement au Chili (L’Harmattan publishers, 2011). She has co-published four collective works : Littératures en mutation, écrire dans une autre langue (Paradigme, 2013), La traduction, médiation et médiatisation des cultures (Paradigme, 2015), Double(s) sens/doble(s) sentido(s ) : Espagne-Amérique Latine / América Latina-España (Paradigme, 2015), Prologues et cultures, médiations littéraires et artistiques (Paradigme, 2017). She co-translated an anthology of Basilio Belliard’s poetry (Dominican Republic) into French: Sueños isleños / Rêves insulaires (Paradigme publishers, 2015). A book based on her research about Dominican literature, Littérature dominicaine en mouvement : les performances littéraires de Rita Indiana et Rey Andújar, was published by Presses Universitaires de Rennes, in 2020.

Leaves n°15 : Transmettre (dans) la Caraïbe : Continuités, ruptures, passages et expériences

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2023-01-31

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Pélage, C. (2023). Le texte comme performance et transmission infinie des Caraïbes dans l’œuvre en mouvement de Rita Indiana. Leaves, (15), 10–22. Retrieved from https://revues.u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr/leaves/article/view/18

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No. 15 (2023): Transmettre (dans) la Caraïbe : Continuités, ruptures, passages et expériences

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Hybridités génériques, transmissions et transmutations formelles

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