Maryse Condé and Africa in the horizon

Abstract

The present article studies the displacement of the Guadeloupe writer Maryse Condé to Africa, taking as a literary object two autobiographies by the author: Le coeur à rire et à pleurer (1999) and La vie sans fards (2012). We consider the displacement portrayed in these works beyond the physical and spatial ones, of the black diasporas. There is also an affective and identity displacement represented in her initial interest in the negritude movement, in the mythical Africa and in the dialogue with the growing anticolonialist thinking in the 20th century. For the critical and theoretical contribution, we rely on the authors Aimé Césaire, Frantz Fanon, Édouard Glissant, Eurídice Figueiredo, Grada Kilomba, among others.