Literature Mauritian

The literature Mauritian is old two centuries and gathers in its center of the various authors, of Xavier the Judge of Isolated woodland to Léoville the Man while passing by Marcel Cabon, Malcolm de Chazal, Khal Torabully, Barlen Pyamootoo, Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, Amal Sewtohul and Natacha Appanah.

She was crossed by topics as various as the Exotisme, the Métissage, the social conflicts and racial, the Indiaocéanisme or, more recently, by constructions combining Postmodernisme and Poststructuralisme, in particular in the coolitude, was conceived like a humanism of various born out of ground Mauritian.

Two literary theories emerged from this compost irrigated by the Indian sea.

Indiaoceanism

This neologism was born in 1961, when the Mauritian Camille de Rauville conceived that the literatures of the Indian Ocean take on specificities which could, however, to present a common substrate, in particular around the polylinguism and of the interbreeding. Here what the author of the indianoceanism said: " Climate, the Interbreeding psychic commun run with the various countries and races frays which compose the substrate of the southern islands of the Indian Ocean and which appears through the mixing of their ethnos groups, their habits, their thoughts and beliefs like in their (S) literature (S). "

Myth and mixing

With Maurice and Madagascar, one meets literary texts brazing of the elements of Oralité, Of oraliture, the Creole, French, the Hindi, among other languages and dialects. The myth of the Lémurie, developed by Jules Hermann, and taken again by Malcolm de Chazal and Robert Edward Binder, indicates to a telluric myth founder, who would connect these islands dispersed in a region of the imaginary one, which would have a common geographical genesis. Find there the Métissage, nature rousseauist, the Multiculturalisme, the prevalence of the Francophonie.

This concept aimed to create a unit by these topics, in order to disenclose Madagascar, Maurice, the Meeting, the Seychelles, the Comoros and Rodrigues and to position them either in periphery of other dominant spaces but in center of a réappropriée history.

Coolitude

This poetic born from the diversity of the Indian Ocean, first ocean of the Universalization, is not based on the categorizations defined by the indiaoceanism, by privileging a comparison by what is called the imaginary coral one.

Indeed, the coolitude defies racial or ethnic paradigms, investing more in the imaginary one and of the theories resulting from the Postmodernisme, the Poststructuralisme and the studies postcoloniales, to engage a dialog open on the world, in particular with the Créolisation proposed by Edouard Glissant or the thoughts of Umberto Eco, Jacques Lacan, Homi Bhabha, Edward Said or of Spivak, among others.

Internal bonds

Créolisation
Culture Mauritian
Re-examined Mauritians

External bonds

Article of Jean-Georges Prosper.

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