Glissements de langues et poétiques romanesques : Poulin, Ducharme, Chamoiseau

The Sliding of Languages and the Poetics of the Novel. The classic theory of literature by a minority in a dominant language sees its insecure practitioners constitute the latter as a « superconscience ». Yet, as three recent American francophone novels show, contemporary strategies exploit passages within a language, and from language to language, transcending or infirming this theory toward Bakhtin's plurilingualism.Gauvin Lise. Glissements de langues et poétiques romanesques : Poulin, Ducharme, Chamoiseau. In: Littérature, n°101, 1996. L'écrivain et ses langues. pp. 5-24