Le regard d’une intruse dans l’univers colonial: Les Pieds-Noirs de Marie Cardinal
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https://doi.org/10.53154/Oltreoceano49Keywords:
phototexte, écriture féminine, littérature pied-noireAbstract
En 1988 Marie Cardinal participe avec un long texte autobiographique agrémenté de photographies à l’album collectif Les Pieds-Noirs. Algérie 1920-1954. Ce témoignage liminaire imprime une perspective personnelle, poétique et problématique au volume. En se focalisant sur son expérience autobiographique, l’auteure, issue d’une famille matriarcale, condense l’histoire de quatre générations de femmes pieds-noires en mettant en perspective tous les stéréotypes et les rapports de force à l’œuvre dans cet échantillon colonial privé et intime. Deux perspectives s’entrecroisent dans le texte: celle des images qui ont un rôle de témoignage et celle de la narratrice qui met en question par son regard oblique, la légitimité de sa présence dans un Pays qui est pourtant le sien. La photobiographie de Marie Cardinal, loin d’être un album de famille, devient ainsi l’instrument de représentation des déchirements schizoïdes liés à la fin de l’entreprise coloniale.
The View of an Intruder in the Colonial Universe: Les Pieds-Noirs by Marie Cardinal
In 1988 Marie Cardinal contributed a long autobiographical text with photographs to the collective album Les Pieds-Noirs. Algérie 1920-1954. This introductory testimony gives a personal, poetic and problematic perspective to the volume. By focusing on her autobiographical experience, the author, who comes from a matriarchal family, condenses the history of four generations of Pieds-Noirs women by putting into perspective all the stereotypes and power relations at work in this private and intimate colonial sample. Two perspectives intersect in the text: that of the images, which have a testimonial role, and that of the female narrator, who questions, through her oblique gaze, the legitimacy of her presence in a country that is nonetheless her own. Marie Cardinal's photobiography, far from being a family album, thus becomes the instrument for representing the schizoid tears linked to the end of the colonial enterprise.
Lo sguardo di un’intrusa nell’universo coloniale: Les Pieds-Noirs di Marie Cardinal
Nel 1988 Marie Cardinal ha contribuito con un lungo testo autobiografico corredato da fotografie all'album collettivo Les Pieds-Noirs. Algérie 1920-1954. Questa testimonianza introduttiva dà una prospettiva personale, poetica e problematica al volume. Concentrandosi sulla sua esperienza autobiografica, l'autrice, che proviene da una famiglia matriarcale, condensa la storia di quattro generazioni di donne pieds-noirs mettendo in prospettiva tutti gli stereotipi e le relazioni di potere all'opera in questo campione coloniale privato e intimo. Nel testo si intersecano due prospettive: quella delle immagini, che hanno un ruolo testimoniale, e quella della narratrice, che mette in discussione, attraverso il suo sguardo obliquo, la legittimità della sua presenza in un paese che è comunque il suo. La fotobiografia di Marie Cardinal, lungi dall'essere un album di famiglia, diventa così lo strumento per rappresentare le lacerazioni schizoidi legate alla fine dell'impresa coloniale.
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