Maryse Condé, origins, writing and opacity

Abstract

This article examines the work of Maryse Condé in light of her vision of writing and the sense of opacity. The novel Victoire, les saveurs et les mots (2006) is analyzed, where the figure of the grandmother allows to create a character-writer that allows to clarify the own history of Condé. The text also attempts to bring the narrator’s work into dialogue with Édouard Glissant’s thinking through the disciplinary encounter of literature, anthropology and geography. This leads us to consider how the Antillean discourse and the praise of créolité in Condé are given. Thus, the work concludes by pointing out the importance of the Condé novel for the Antillean peoples.