2011-05-26

 

Auteur syncrétique

On m'a récemment signalé un article d'Arlette Warken en partie consacré à une de mes nouvelles. Il s'agit de son essai intitulé « "Other Canadas": Alternative Futures in Contemporary Canadian Science Fiction Stories », qui est paru dans The Canadian Alternative (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2004), un ouvrage allemand rédigé en anglais et réuni par Klaus Martens. (Il s'agit du 28e volume des Saarbrücker Beiträge zur vergleichenden Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft.) On peut lire une partie de l'article (et du livre) sur le site de Google Books.

La docteure Warken, de l'Université de la Sarre, aborde le sujet de ma nouvelle (et d'une nouvelle de Glenn Grant qu'elle rapproche de la mienne) ainsi :

« While a large portion of Canadian SF is, as elsewhere, comprised of apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic scenarios and disaster narratives, and/or of portrayals of a world influenced by technology, some authors focus on the syncretic aspect of postmodern writing. Syncretism, according to Neal Baker, "entails the reconfiguration of various unified essences — be it the nation-state, ethnicity, race, language, the body, or time — and the fusion of radical differences" (220). Baker suggests that such syncretism is employed to reflect multicultural Canadian reality. I shall argue that in the stories "Memetic Drift" by Glenn Grant and "Remember, the Dead Say" by Jean-Louis Trudel, which were both published in the anthology Northern Stars (1994), this syncretic method goes beyond a reflection of the structure of Canadian society. These stories indulge in and conflate the repertoire offered by the thematic and postmodern approaches and the prevailing generic visions of environmental, technological and human disaster. In addition, in a country that is said to be past-oriented, they establish visions of the future which accommodate the future as much as the past mainly by introducing characters [who] refuse to be victims, and thus insisting on a future-oriented SF that still reflects the concerns of contemporary Canada. »

Il y a des fois que j'oublie à quel point je suis un auteur contemporain et post-moderne... Il faudrait que je me relise — ou que je lise ce qu'on dit de moi.

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