Mar
07
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In Solibo Magnificent, Chamoiseau, using the death of Storyteller Solibo, creates two direct conflicts caused by cultural acco mmodation and resistance, i.e. the local Creole oral culture versus French colonist modern civilization. “It is the realization of having outlived his time, the era of oral Creole expression, that prompts the storyteller’s literary death, his retreat before a world in which there is less and less room for orality (Réjouis, 178).” In the book, Solibo’s death marks the end of the culture of orature. When this culture dies out, representatives of local culture in the book are subjected to misunderstanding, discrimination and violence. However, this book is a perfect combination of oral culture and colonial culture. The author, from the perspective of Solibo, protects and “favors” local culture though actually he has accepted French colonial culture. But this acceptance is resistance rather than obedience as the best way to fight against the invasion of colonial culture is to expose its filth using its language.

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