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The article proposes a method for literary analysis that is located at the intersection of Eliseo Verón's semiotics of circulation and the politics of literature in the wake of Jacques Rancière and Jean-François Hamel. This method takes into account the historical material conditions of textual production, as well as the historical material conditions of recognition in which interpretation occurs, thus overcoming the limits inherent to the immanentism of sociocriticism. It allows for both greater objectivity and reflexivity in analyzing signifying materialities or signs. Drawing on Wittgenstein, Verón, Peirce, and Bakhtin, the value and pertinence of the politics of literature is defended by emphasizing the importance of four main concepts: grammar, circulation, indexicality, and expressiveness. An analysis of Haï (1971) by J.M.G. Le Clézio illustrates the method, arguing in favor of the possible and desirable intertwinement of the politics of literature and decoloniality. Three main concepts stemming from decolonial studies are discussed in this context: codigophagy, colonial semiosis, and border thinking.

Between 1970 and 1974, the writer J.M.G. Le Clézio traveled on multiple occasions, for six to eight months at the time, in the forests of the Darién region, at the border of Panama and Colombia. To this day, the Darién Gap is exempt of mass infrastructures et forms a vast natural zone that cuts the Americas in two halves. The aim of this article is to describe how the ecological awakening of the writer originates from his "Panamanian adventure", and how it leads to an accrued sensibility towards minored peoples, such as the Emberá who welcomed him. This awakening is violent at first, and is expressed literary through the motif of the clash of civilizations. Afterwards, a slip towards a poetic renewal is observed, which culminates in L'inconnu sur la terre (1978). Drawing from primary sources (Haï, 1971; La fête chantée, 1997) and secondary sources (the many interviews the writer has given over the years), the modalities of transformation of the Leclezian poetic are assessed in the face of the central and intimate role that nature plays in it. In doing so, two periods of the writer's life are related: the year he spent in Nigeria as a child in 1948 (as told in L'Africain, 2004), and the sojourns in the Darién, in his early thirties. These two periods colliding let us understand the return to wild life as the source of a poetic rejuvenation. ; Entre 1970 et 1974, l'écrivain J.M.G. Le Clézio se rend à plusieurs reprises, à raison de six à huit mois à chaque fois, dans les forêts du Darién, à la frontière entre le Panama et la Colombie. À ce jour, le bouchon du Darién reste exempt d'infrastructures de masse et forme une vaste zone naturelle marquant une brisure entre les Amériques. Développant une approche à mi-chemin entre l'écocritique littéraire et l'étude des politiques de la littérature, cet article a pour objectif de montrer comment «l'aventure panaméenne» de l'écrivain est à la source d'un éveil écologique profond et débouche sur une sensibilité accrue à l'égard des peuples minorés, à l'exemple des Emberá ...