"Maintenant que nous sommes ensemble": Displacement as an Ethical, Aesthetic and Political Figure in Wajdi Mouawad’s "Incendies"
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.25145/j.cedille.2025.28.12Keywords:
Hermeneutics, Inheritance, Tragedy, History, Global LiteratureAbstract
This article intends to conduct a hermeneutical reading of Incendies, by Wajdi Mouawad, based on the analysis and interpretation of the notion of «displacement», whose centrality in the play is essential both to understand its meaning and to capture the dialogue that the piece establishes with the dramatic form and its tradition. Likewise, we will attend to the reflections it provokes regarding the position of contemporary literature and stage in a global context. We will therefore develop the relationships between the different levels of this displacement to discover the index of a program that brings together ethics, aesthetics and politics in a poetics of inheritance and promise: a project that allows us to situate ourselves and think about the present.
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