Abstract

DONOSO HERRERA, Lizeth. The Real City and the Written City in Texaco by Patrick Chamoiseau. Folios [online]. 2014, n.40, pp.11-18. ISSN 0123-4870.

In Texaco, there is constant tension between orality and writing. Although the novel's heroine clings to her creole word, gradually, it becomes displaced by writing and by the French, the language installed in the country during the French colonization. However, not to deny her past, she felt obliged to mix her tradition with that which was imposed by the settlers. Thus, Texaco, and its culture will be characterized by hybridization. The architecture and speech will be symbols of the mixture, the intersection of two cultures: high culture and popular culture. In this paper I want to analyse this work through the concept of hybridization and from the position of Angel Rama in the "written city" - contrary to the real city - as this author shows how the written word is part of the cultural apparatus that regulates the retention of power. Terms such as orality and writing, hybridization and popular culture will be kept in mind.

Keywords : Caribbean Culture; colonialism; cultural identity; orality; political power.

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