De Corbière à Tristan : la quête identitaire comme principe organisateur des "Amours jaunes"

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Our theory is that as a French-speaking Breton poet, Tristan Corbiere's inspiration in writing his unique collection, les amours jaunes, was his search for a sense of identity. Although born in a Breton-speaking part of Brittany and from a bourgeois background hostile to the Breton language and to Breton culture, he finally rejected his original ethnic group and embraced cultures on the fringe of society, that's to say those of the humble folk of Armorica, of sailors and of Parisian bohemians. His language, unlike any which had gone before, is proof of this. Corbiere's hybrid poetry, his unsettled syntax, his breathless rhythms, his extremely rich vocabulary, his daring both in literature and in morality all bear witness to this rejection of the standard cultural features which typified his upbringing and to his acceptance of multi-cultural illegitimacy. He succeeded, but it was traumatic. Les amours jaunes proves what a wrench this was, that to do so he had to reconstruct his identity

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