(Mis)Reading the figure of the Cannibal Ogre / Incest through the European Fairy Tale: Narrative Techniques, Metamorphosis, and Meaning in the First Kanak Novel

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  • Raylene Ramsay

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Raylene Ramsay

Raylene Ramsay is Professor of French at the University of Auckland. She has published on French Women in Politics (Berghahn, Oxford et New York, 2003), on French “autofiction” (The French New Autobiographies, Univ. Press of Florida 1996) and the French new novel (Robbe-Grillet and Modernity, UPF 1992). Her translation of the poems and first novel of the Kanak woman writer and independence leader, Déwé Gorodé (Dire le vrai/ To Tell the Truth, Grain de sable, 2001) and with Deborah Walker (Sharing as Custom Provides, Pandanus, 2005 and The Wreck, Little Island, 2011) accompanied a larger project to produce a cultural history of New Caledonia in English through a collection of translated and annotated texts (Ramsay. ed. Nights of Storytelling. A Cultural Hisory of Kanaky-New Caledonia, Univ. of Hawaii Press, 2011). The present article is part of a wider reflection for a book on hybridity in the emerging literatures of New Caledonia. Raylene is a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.

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2019-10-31

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