Livre sanctifié ou pulpe écorchée ? Le corps dans la poésie d’Umar Timol

Aleksandra Nocoń

doi:10.31261/RS.2019.15.05

Published: 2021-01-27

Vol. 15 No. 1 (2019)

Sacred book or skinned pulp? The body in Umar Timol’s poetry

Aleksandra Nocoń

Section: Corporeality and its meaningfulness: the body and the identity

https://doi.org/10.31261/RS.2019.15.05

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The article concerns the place of corporeality in the poetry of a Maurician francophone poet Umar Timol. One can distinguish four main attitudes towards the human body in Timol’s texts: body as an object of worship or – on the contrary – of disdain and condemnation, body as a humanitarian challenge and as an object of self-reflection. The absence of typically Western dualism of physical versus spiritual in Mauritian poet’s philosophy procures a new and exotic perspective for European readers. The author ponders the purpose and motifs which could stay behind such standpoints mainly by analysing the poems in the context of Mauritian culture and comparing them to other Muslim or Indian texts.

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Mauritian francophone literature , Umar Timol , poetry , corporeality

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Nocoń, A. (2021). Sacred book or skinned pulp? The body in Umar Timol’s poetry. Romanica Silesiana, 15(1), 65–76. https://doi.org/10.31261/RS.2019.15.05

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Vol. 15 No. 1 (2019)
Published: 2021-05-28

ISSN: 1898-2433

eISSN: 2353-9887

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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