@article{Kopf_2019, title={The Footprint as an Accelerator for Individualisation and Relation: Patrick Chamoiseau’s L’empreinte à Crusoé}, volume={25}, url={https://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/p/article/view/23635}, DOI={10.14746/por.2019.2.13}, abstractNote={<p>Starting with Defoe’s famous footprint scene, this contribution focuses on the Martiniquan author Patrick Chamoiseau’s rewriting of Robinson Crusoe L’empreinte à Crusoé (2012). In this polyphonic novel, the footprint becomes an accelerator for individualisation and relation. After discovering the footprint, Chamoiseau’s Robinson, a black amnesic African, is obsessed by the possible presence of another. He puts into question his identity and enters into a new relation with the whole island, its flora and fauna. The novel might be seen as a poetical transformation of Chamoiseau’s theoretical and poetological ideas on creolization which are developed in the manifesto of the creoleness movement In Praise of Creoleness. The footprint thus becomes a symbol for the creolization processes.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Porównania}, author={Kopf, Martina}, year={2019}, month={Dec.}, pages={211–228} }