Les paradoxes de l’héritage: la mémoire et sa transmission dans Fleurs de crachat de Catherine Mavrikakis

Abstract

This papers aims to show the im-portance of the heir and of the transmission of memory in the novel Fleurs de Crachat, written by contemporary Quebec writer Catherine Mavrikakis. This study highlights the paradox that surrounds younger genera-tions, since they must come to terms and preserve their ancestors’ past and at the same find and affirm their own identity. Communicative memory, cultural memory, imagination and space become the main forms through which the memory of the past is transmitted.

Keywords

• inheritance
• postmemory
• trauma
• space
• quebec literature