Abstract
The intimate and multifaceted relation between colonial destination and the concept of historical destiny in J.M.G. Le Clézio's 2003 novel Révolutions (Paris: Gallimard, 2003) reveals the interconnectedness of seemingly opposing worldviews, such as anthropocentric and ecocentric, or colonial and postcolonial. This complex relation is indicative of a dual phenomenon I call paracolonial aesthetics. On the one hand, it refers to the revival, resurgence, and remanence of the colonial, while, on the other hand, it addresses its re-imagining, revisiting, and reassessment. Both of these gestures are fraught simultaneously with danger and opportunity since they entail the custodial task of maintaining and even rehabilitating colonial memory in the material, sensorial, and emotional sense, as well as the responsibility to cast a critical gaze upon the re(-)membered past.
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