Abstract

BLANCO-RAMOS, Roberto Antonio. Heart that Laughs, Heart that Cries by Maryse Condé: A Reading from Postcolonial Literature, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis. Espiga [online]. 2023, vol.22, n.46, pp.109-126. ISSN 2215-454X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.22458/re.v22i46.4906.

The work Heart that laughs, heart that cries. True stories of my childhood by Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé is analyzed through three theoretical and methodological approaches that respond to a deconstructive logic. It refers to postcolonial literature, psychoanalysis, and Afro-descendant feminism. The examination carried out allows for significant determinations about the historical literary construction of the author's poetic narrative and the representation of the legacy of colonial power in terms of race, power knowledge, resistance, and gender. Methodologically, the work is discursively analyzed from postcolonial theories and perspectives. It is concluded that the author's text helps understand the configuration of processes of resignification based on sociopolitical commitment and the identification of a redefined black femininity.

Keywords : Class; Caribbean literature; race..

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