The creative act and literary space in France Daigle's autofiction (La beauté de l'affaire, 1953 et Pas pire)

Abstract

In her literary work, Acadian author France Daigle contributes to the creation of an Acadian space to remedy the absence of a clearly defined geographical territory. For Daigle, this space is created above all within the literary text, given that literary space is a place for exploring oneself and the world. In this contribution, Daigle's combined search for self and space will be explored using three autofictional texts in which she creates a personal geography, blurring the boundaries between the real and the fictional and developing a self-reflexive discourse that illustrates the author's becoming.