The migrant memory: Les urnes scellees by Emile Ollivier

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5507/ro.2019.006" target="_blank" >10.5507/ro.2019.006</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The migrant memory: Les urnes scellees by Emile Ollivier

Original language description

The article “The Migrant Memory: Les urnes scellées by Emile Ollivier” deals the work of Emile Ollivier, modern Quebecois writer of Haitian origin, whose texts are permeated by motives pertaining on one hand to his exile in Canada and, on the other hand, to the picture of the native country as a souvenir. The problematics of temporality and memory is analyzed in detail by Paul Ricœur in his works Temps et récit and La mémoire, l’histoire, l’oubli, chosen for that reason as the main methodological references of this article. In migrant literature, however, temporality is closely related to spatiality, as it has been noted by Quebecois literary theorists, e.g. Simon Harel. The memory can be considered as a dynamic force in the text of the novel Les urnes scellées. A couple of Haitian emigrants, returning from Canada to their homeland after twenty-five years of the exile, seems to take hard the contrast between their memories and reality. Adrien’s profession of archaeologist pushes him nevertheless to search for the past. He is obsessed by looking for the circumstances of a murder. In spite of his vain searching of the murderer, Adrien uncovers a network of secrets and memories of the community. The results of the analysis reveal how difficult is getting rid of the burden of the past. Memory is closely connected with space not only in individual cases, but also on national level. The collective memory of Haiti finally appears as a part of message of the novel. Another message, on individual level, is knowing himself through memory.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60206 - Specific literatures

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Romanica Olomucensia

ISSN

1803-4136

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

31

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

79-89

UT code for WoS article

000476774800006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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