Lieux de culture, lieux de conflit dans La Conquérante (1943) de Robert Brasillach
Journal Title: Lublin Studies in Modern Languages and Literature - Year 2015, Vol 39, Issue 39
Abstract
In 1943, Robert Brasillach wrote a novel entitled La Conquérante. It was intended to be a fictional eulogy of French colonial pioneers in Morocco in 1912. Given his commitment to Vichy’s wartime policy of collaboration, the novel turned out to be an epitaph for the loss of a significant part of the French Empire. This article proposes a taxonomy of places and spaces in the novel, together with an analysis of their function and how they interact with the characters. It introduces a new concept of isotopias, or fictional transformations of places in literature. It concludes that, although written in the ‘mode’ of possession, the novel proved paradoxically to be the swansong of a new and dispossessed mother-country.
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Peter Tame
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- DOI 10.17951/lsmll.2015.39.1.89
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