From the Mediterranean Puddle to the Ocean of the All-World: Imaginary and Transatlantic Poetic Identities

Abstract

Through the mediation of literary Celticism and the perspective of colour semiotics, the paper examines the shift, in the French speaking literature of the twentieth century, from a Mediterranean-dominated culture to an Atlantic literary paradigm. The Greek idealized blue insularity is replaced by the green Caribbean Archipelago. In the process, a new transnational Atlantic identity emerges from the sea of literature.