Un pas de chat sauvage de Marie NDiaye: histoire d’un regard
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Publié dans le cadre de l’exposition Le modèle noir de Géricault à Matisse, organisée au musée d’Orsay en 2019, Un pas de chat sauvage de Marie NDiaye interroge l’imaginaire colonisant du corps féminin par le biais de la femme noire Marie l’Antillaise, photographiée par Nadar en 1850. Je me propose de démontrer que le véritable enjeu de ce court récit est la question d’une identité qui passe à travers le regard: le regard des autres, le regard sur soi-même de la part d’une autrice qui s’est toujours considérée comme étrangère à la question coloniale, enfin le regard de la littérature.
Un pas de chat sauvage by Marie NDiaye: History of a Glance
Published as part of the exhibition Le modèle noir de Géricault à Matisse, organised at the Musée d’Orsay in 2019, Marie NDiaye’s Un pas de chat sauvage questions the colonising imagination of the female body through the lens of the black woman Marie l’Antillaise photographed by Nadar in 1850. I propose to show that the real focus of this short story is the question of an identity that passes through the gaze: the gaze of others, the gaze on oneself from an author who has always held herself alien to the colonial question and finally the gaze of literature.
Un pas de chat sauvage di Marie Ndiaye: storia di uno sguardo
Pubblicato nell'ambito della mostra Le modèle noir de Géricault à Matisse, organizzata al Musée d'Orsay nel 2019, Un pas de chat sauvage di Marie NDiaye mette in discussione l'immaginario colonizzatore del corpo femminile attraverso la figura della donna nera Marie l'Antillaise, fotografata da Nadar nel 1850. Il mio proposito è dimostrare che il vero focus di questo racconto è la questione di un'identità che passa attraverso lo sguardo: lo sguardo degli altri, lo sguardo su se stessa da parte di un'autrice che si è sempre ritenuta estranea alla questione coloniale e infine lo sguardo della letteratura.
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