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30 novembre 2021
- doi: 10.4000/ces.7887
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Héliane Ventura, « Genealogy and Geology: Of Metanarratives of Origins », Commonwealth Essays and Studies, ID : 10.4000/ces.7887
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This essay addresses the theme chosen for the issue, “Tectonic Shifts,” in geological terms and contemplates the individual micro-histories that are narrated in emergent fictions against the larger scenarios of geo-dynamic mechanisms that have created the contours of the contemporary world. It engages in the preoccupation with origins in postcolonial writing from a point of view which is successively panoramic (Andrea Levy, Bernardine Everisto, Anita Desai, Kathy Page, Joan Thomas) and closely focused (Alice Munro, Dance of the Happy Shades and The View from Castle Rock). It provides evidence of the contemporary updating of the modes of story-telling through the synchronization of the historical novel, epic poetry and autobiography in stories which develop a parallel quest for geology and genealogy.