To inscribe, to Show and to Recreate a Scar: Children and Writing in the Autobiographical Novel of the Caribbean

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Claudia Amigo

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What is the role of writing in the narrative of childhood? This article attempts to answer that question by reading three autobiographical narratives of the Caribbean: Chemin d’école [Road to school] (1994), by Patrick Chamoiseau, A House for Mr. Biswas, by V.S. Naipaul (1961) and Le coeur à rire et à pleurer [A heart that laughs and weeps] (1999), by Maryse Condé. In all these works, we observed the moments in which writing becomes a problem for the children characters and we relate these episodes to the image of the scar. Towards the end, we outline a possible relation between this image and the concept of glocalization, proposed by Zygmunt Bauman.

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