{"id":35155,"date":"2013-12-23T17:47:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T17:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35155"},"modified":"2013-12-23T17:47:45","modified_gmt":"2013-12-23T17:47:45","slug":"from-aesthetics-to-allegory-raphael-confiant-the-creole-novel-and-interdisciplinary-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35155","title":{"rendered":"From Aesthetics to Allegory: Rapha\u00ebl Confiant, the Creole Novel, and Interdisciplinary Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-title\"><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/login?auth=0&amp;type=summary&amp;url=\/journals\/small_axe\/v017\/17.3.izzo.html\" target=\"_blank\">From Aesthetics to Allegory: Rapha\u00ebl Confiant, the Creole Novel, and Interdisciplinary Translation<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/small_axe\" target=\"_blank\">Small Axe<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journals\/small_axe\/toc\/smx.17.3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 17, Number 3, November 2013 (No. 42)<\/a><br \/>\npages 89-99<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/brown.edu\/academics\/french-studies\/justin-izzo\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Izzo<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of French Studies<br \/>\n<em>Brown University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This essay examines the roles played by ethnographic writing and translation in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rapha%C3%ABl_Confiant\" target=\"_blank\">Rapha\u00ebl Confiant\u2019s<\/a> 1994 <em>L\u2019all\u00e9e des soupirs<\/em>. This novel fictionalizes the 1959 riots in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martinique\" target=\"_blank\">Martinique<\/a> while simultaneously creating characters who debate the relative merits of modes of expression capable of capturing the linguistic, cultural, and racial hybridity of <em>cr\u00e9olit\u00e9<\/em> in literature. Confiant translates into fictional terms important precepts on Caribbean literary production set out in <em>Eloge de la cr\u00e9olit\u00e9<\/em>, which Confiant wrote with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patrick_Chamoiseau\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Chamoiseau<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean_Bernab%C3%A9\" target=\"_blank\">Jean Bernab\u00e9<\/a>. By transforming the aesthetic problems taken up in <em>Eloge<\/em> into a thoroughly creolized novel that deals with the hybridized messiness of everyday life, Confiant presents a text that ethnographically allegorizes its own conditions of production. This allegorization mobilizes a process the essay calls \u201cinterdisciplinary translation,\u201d which relies on an ongoing process of conversion between ethnographic and literary modes of representation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Aesthetics to Allegory: Rapha\u00ebl Confiant, the Creole Novel, and Interdisciplinary Translation Small Axe Volume 17, Number 3, November 2013 (No. 42) pages 89-99 Justin Izzo, Assistant Professor of French Studies Brown University This essay examines the roles played by ethnographic writing and translation in Rapha\u00ebl Confiant\u2019s 1994 L\u2019all\u00e9e des soupirs. This novel fictionalizes the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,1196,8],"tags":[16614,1342,3320],"class_list":["post-35155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-justin-izzo","tag-raphael-confiant","tag-small-axe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}