![]() ![]() These imaginaries form as many identity islands keeping women and men remote from any form of autonomy. In this article dedicated to her novel Rosie Carpe, published in 2001 at the dawn of a new century, I contend that these traumatic and post-traumatic experiences and memories have survived the historical process of decolonization and taken the shape of a reality that I explain through the notion of “identity insularities.” These identities are colonial tropes that have persisted in the postcolonial era that is ours. They are traumatic as well as post-traumatic memories inscribed in the colonial past of France. as shown, many biographical elements that are specific to the author’s history reemerge through fictional figures and situations located at the crossroads of sub-Saharan African, metropolitan, and French overseas memories. Marie NDiaye’s writing occupies a unique position in literary French and Francophone postcolonial time and space. ![]()
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