Towards the poetic paths of Jean-Marie Kerwich in L’évangile du gitan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.46744/bapl.202102.016
Keywords: Kerwich, caravan, poetry, resistance, gypsy, orientalism

Abstract

This paper examines the modes of expression of the gypsy poet Jean-Marie Kerwich in order to unveil his subversive reconceptualization of poetry in a journey space of existential and spiritual resistance. By carrying out a microanalysis of his poems, it highlights the poetic paths created by the poet, inspired by the gypsy-Christian hybrid of his life. Correlatively, it examines the way in which Kerwich incorporates and transforms the disparaging tropes generally deployed in Orientalist cultural productions. He turns them into resources of subversion, critique and vindication in order to open the perspectives of reflection on the various forms of oppression, marginalization and instrumentalization existing in contemporary world.

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Author Biography

Aurélie Boutant, Universidad de Montreal

Es doctoranda en la Universidad de Montreal. Se encuentra realizando una tesis sobre las expresiones creativas literarias y musicales del Caribe. Es bachiller en Literatura Comparada y en Estudios Ingleses (Universidad de Montreal). Realizó una maestría en Literatura Comparada en la misma Universidad. Su proyecto de investigación trató sobre las expresiones de militantismo literario en las novelas The farming of bones, de Edwidge Danticat, y We need new names, de NoViolet Bulawayo. Examinó la formación de las subjetividades de sujetos migrantes haitianos y de zimbabuenses cuyas vidas están trastornadas por las redes de los poderes neocolonial y nacional. Algunos de sus artículos publicados son «De la biguine au jazz caribéen : Expressions créatives insulaires et archiéliques» (Ethnologies, 2019) y «Dispositivos de las políticas culturales en las practicas musicales andinas» (Tinkuy, 2019)

Published
2021-12-02
How to Cite
Boutant, A. (2021). Towards the poetic paths of Jean-Marie Kerwich in L’évangile du gitan. Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua, 70(70), 467 - 494. https://doi.org/10.46744/bapl.202102.016
Issue
No 70 (2021): Julio - Diciembre
Section
Articles

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