The CARACOL Affiliation (Observatoire des littératures caribéennes), in affiliation with the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Research (College of Warwick), presents the CARACOL Annual Convention 2022 (on-line): “Caribbean poetics: voices, aesthetics, imaginaries,” to be held on Might 6-7, 2022. The keynote speaker shall be Fabienne Viala (College of Warwick). [Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.]
The notion of poetics first referring to a concept of inventive creation has taken on completely different meanings and has been utilized in varied disciplines over the centuries, exhibiting its versatility and its capacity to mirror a variety of voices, aesthetics and imaginaries. Whereas within the 500 BC, Aristotle’s ideas centered on the query of Magnificence and as such on the query of the craftsmanship or on the poet-craftsman’s course of of creating and purifying the “line”, new approaches specializing in the “signal” in artistic works (M. Heidegger), or on its energetic rhetorical facet and as its such poet(h)ic (P. Ricoeur) appeared, excavating the a number of potentiality of the notion.
Within the Caribbean context, many thinkers gave the notion of poetics a geographical facet the place house and imaginary meet (Okay. Brathwaite, The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy: Rights of Passage, Islands, Masks, 1973 ; É. Glissant, Poétique de la relation, 1990; É. Glissant, Introduction à une poétique du divers, 1996; W. Harris, The Womb of Area, the Cross-Cultural Creativeness, 1983 ; D. Maximin, Les Fruits du cyclone : une géopoétique de la Caraïbe, Paris, Seuil, 2006). The connection between literature and world view seems to be notably central and partly justifies how related this notion has confirmed to be. Édouard Glissant for instance, chooses the phrase poetics to switch that of philosophy because the latter has the tendency to confer with a western mind-set inside methods and leaves little house for variety and unpredictability. He makes an attempt to suppose with out methods, via literature, poetry and the imaginary. Therefore, the time period poetics appears to supply the opportunity of exploring how literary creation and understanding of the world intertwine. As a result of for Patrick Chamoiseau who builds on Glissant’s ideas, “Ecrire en pays dominé” (Writing in a dominated land) additionally means “inventing” the world to free it/oneself.
Lecturers additionally discover these questions as they attempt to outline the boundaries of a literary discipline which is as wealthy as linguistically and culturally numerous. The notion of poetics, usually utilized in a comparatist method, seems to be a fruitful instrument of research in tutorial works however isn’t problematised in relation to the Caribbean house itself. At occasions related to pondering the world via literature or literature on this planet (Sprint, 1994), at different occasions with a “champ d’exploration” (“discipline of exploration”, Duff, 2008), “motifs” (Monet-Descombey, 2017), a “sphère” (Boisseron, 2019), or a author’s observe/aesthetic (Réjouis, 2003), it seems that poetics is usually considered a “fil conducteur” (“widespread thread”, Aïta, 2011) which goals at confronting completely different Caribbean expressions.
This convention proposes to query in an authentic method the fertility of the notion of poetics for our analysis into literary practices of Caribbean writers. We notably encourage reflective works on the notion – the query of aesthetics, author’s voices, imaginaries and itineraries can thus be explored. What’s “poetics” for Caribbean writers? How can a author’s poetics be outlined? Can we communicate of Caribbean poetics? What’s the relationship between poetics and politics within the Caribbean? Has the notion of poetics been utilized in the identical method in tutorial analysis in French, English and Spanish? [. . .]
Scientific committee: Florian Alix (Sorbonne Université), Pierre-Philippe Fraiture (College of Warwick), John Gilmore (College of Warwick), Rocío Munguía Aguilar (Université de Strasbourg), Maeve McCusker (Queen’s College Belfast), Orane Onyekpe-Touzet (College of Warwick/ Sorbonne Université), and Fabienne Viala (College of Warwick).
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Additionally see earlier publish https://repeatingislands.com/2020/10/04/call-for-papers-frontieres-et-insularite-dans-la-caraibe