The character struggling with memory

The Dark Season, by Léonora Miano, tells the story of the transatlantic slave trade: it bears witness to the suffering and questions the identity becoming of a community from which loved ones have been torn away, for a life of slavery. The novel features Eyabe, who attempts to make sense of the pangs of history through a quest where the stakes are truth, homage and the rebirth of the missing son. By considering this character as a phenomenon of signification, either by analyzing it in its semiotic and enunciative dimensions but, also, in the cognitive and epistemological achievements of his journey of quest, the author demonstrates that, wanting to reappropriate his history, the main character manages to reappropriate History.