Le visage de l’autre comme écotone dans Tout ce qu’on ne te dira pas, Mongo de Dany Laferrière

Abstract

This article analyses the conception of the face of the other in Laferrière’s novel as an ecotone, that is, a place where two individuals meet in order to build a renewed vision of the world based on their converging values. This analysis is informed by Emmanuel Levinas’ ethics of the face. It considers composite and paratopic writing as a place where ecotonic signs in the novel are inscribed and may be interpreted. These signs serve to question and (re)-shape individual and collective identities and to create a new composite community.

Keywords

• face
• the other
• Laferrière (Dany)
• Levinas (Emmanuel)
• ecotone
• migration