Poétique de l’espace insulaire dans The Wedding de Dorothy West

Corinne Duboin (1)

1 CRLHOI - Centre de Recherches Littéraires et Historiques de l'Océan Indien

I will examine how Dorothy West reconstructs the referential space of Martha’s Vineyard, Massachussets, in her last novel, The Wedding (1995). By focusing on her fictional mapping of the island and its black enclave, the Oval, my aim is to explore West’s poetics of space with relation to her criticism of the black upper class of the Os.

Mots clés: Dorothy West; African American Literature; Island

Mots clés: espace insulaire; littérature afro-américaine

Domaines: Littératures

Corinne Duboin. Poétique de l’espace insulaire dans The Wedding de Dorothy West. Anglophonia, French Journal of English Studies, 2006, Espaces et terres d’Amérique/Mapping American Space,, 19, p. 97-105. ⟨10.4000/caliban.2402⟩. ⟨hal-01165804⟩