Tell me about your Voyage: Michel Leiris

• Autor(a) principal: Clifford, James
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Ciências Sociais
• Texto Completo: http://www.periodicos.ufc.br/revcienso/article/view/848
• topic: Michel Leiris; L’Afrique Fantôme; Narrative; Experience; Michel Leiris; A África Fantasma; Narrativa; Experiência

Th e article examines Michel Leiris’ L’Afrique fantôme (1934). Leiris traveled as Dakar-Djibouti mission “secretary-archivist” in order to produce its story and to record its results. But if this story was already inscribed before it is written, because of the inescapable colonial narrative, Leiris get rid of it through the ephemeral day-to-day of his journal, the denial of a romance. However, a trip has to be told. Seeking another way to tell, it is noticed at his writing a surreal-ethnographic tangle, in which is undermined the assumption that self and other can come together in a coherent and stable narrative. As Leiris himself says in his prière d’insérer, “it’s up to the reader to discover the germs of a coming consciousness attained only well after the return.”