Literature of the Indian Ocean

This Ocean, the first of the Universalization, saw being born from as old and fertile texts as Thousand and One Nights , which tells the real and fantastic voyages of the merchant Sindbad in this ocean bathed by the Mousson S and the Cyclone S.

Space diversity

This space which connects the tradesmen and the richnesses of the the Indies, of Africa, China, and other countries like the Indonesia, Madagascar, Maurice, the Comoros, the Meeting, the Vietnam and those of the Arabic Péninsule, are characterized by a very great diversity of people, of Imaginaire S, languages, and literatures.

The Indian Literature, for example, is regarded as oldest of humanity.

Colonial and exotic literature

This ocean becomes also the space whose Europeans seize themselves circumventing the Cape of Good Hope with Bartolomeu Dias, in 1488. Later, Vasco de Gama will move towards Malindi, then towards Calicut, port of spices, with a muallim or pilot of the area.

Thus, one can read there Paul and Virginia , the Romance first naturalist, written by Bernardin of Saint-Pierre, or later, the poems With the creole lady or Malabaraise of Charles Baudelaire, which tries out the Correspondance S in the island of France, old name of the Mauritius.

Authors of the 20th century

One can quote, shovel-mixes, the Malagasy poets Jean-Joseph Rabéarivelo, Jacques Rabemananjara, the novelists réunionnais Leblond, or the Mauritians Clément Charoux, Loys and Edmond Masson, Marcel Cabon, Robert Edward-Binder, Edouard Maunick, Jean-Georges Prosper and the visionary Malcolm de Chazal, which explore the relations problems of a universe where the colonial designs and the aspirations of the people to their freedom clash.

Recent authors

The islands of the Mascareignes, particularly, gave authors who engaged a dialog with the Identité S in the wake of the Indépendance S, while also working a Littérarité worthy of this name.

One can quote Marie-Therese Humbert, Carl de Souza, Ananda Devi, Dev. Virahsamwy, Barlen Pyamootoo, Natacha Appanah, Shenaz Patel and Khal Torabully in this generation carrying strong literary proposals.

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