RECONFIGURATIONS IDENTITAIRES ET PRATIQUES LITTERAIRES DANS LA LITTERATURE ANTILLAISE CONTEMPORAINE : ETAT DES LIEUX CRITIQUE

This article offers a critical overview of major authors in contemporary French-speaking Caribbean literature: Edouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau, Maryse Condé, Raphaël Confiant, Dany Laferrière, and Salvat Etchart. By drawing on postcolonial criticism, theories of orality, créolité, and traumatic memory, the article highlights the aesthetic and ideological specificities of each author. Glissant develops a poetics of Relation rooted in opacity and creolization; Chamoiseau connects orality and hybridity to offer a popular rereading of history; Condé explores colonial memory and female subjectivities through a critical polyphony; Confiant celebrates linguistic and communal creoleness; Laferrière adopts a nomadic and satirical stance, while Etchart proposes a sociological and poetic reading of post-slavery pathologies. This panorama sheds light on the intersecting dynamics of identity, language, memory, and literary resistance within the French-speaking Caribbean space.