mémoire de la traversée dans L’empreinte à Crusoé de Patrick Chamoiseau

Abstract

L’empreinte à Crusoé by Patrick Chamoiseau revisits European colonial expansion, specifically slave trade and, rewriting Robinson Crusoe, the deportation of Africans towards America. Chamoiseau’s elliptic style reveals the traumata caused by this experience. The novel thus succeeds in communicating its extreme without describing the ocean crossing itself.