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Abstracts (N° 95) Dec 2020

Abstracts (N° 95)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Présentation, Françoise Naudillon Dec 2020

Présentation, Françoise Naudillon

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Les Festivals Des Minorités En Europe, Une Passerelle Vers Le Mena, Émilie Wacogne Dec 2020

Les Festivals Des Minorités En Europe, Une Passerelle Vers Le Mena, Émilie Wacogne

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

We observe a proliferation of film festivals dedicated to Maghrebian and African cinemas in Europe. Several festivals include movies by directors from the Maghreb, the Near and Middle East, and Africa, as well as films by European filmmakers, descendants of immigrant parents. This phenomenon reflects the need for a visibility that continues to be lacking in European societies. It also shows the long process by which these guest workers settle in some European countries. We will mention the FameckArab Film Festival, the Arab Film Festival in Brussels and the Aflam Festival in Marseille. The link between the presence of festivals, …


La Réception Du Film De Mamady Sidibé, Lnspecteur Sori - Le Mamba, De L'Enquête Au Cliché, Franck Mbadinga Dec 2020

La Réception Du Film De Mamady Sidibé, Lnspecteur Sori - Le Mamba, De L'Enquête Au Cliché, Franck Mbadinga

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This reflection shall use Mamady Sidibe's film lnspecteur Sori- Le mamba to question the characteristics of critical reception theories. It takes into account the orientation that the audience may assign to a broadcast film depending on how receptive it is to the film. By distinguishing two types of spectators (model and not), it also connects itself with Umberto Eco's reflections on the reader/spectator. From these reflections, it turns out that the horizons of expectations arising from a visual piece are consubstantial with hermeneutics that question the origins of the piece, not the piece itself. In other words, the film puts …


Présence Francophone, Numéro 95 Dec 2020

Présence Francophone, Numéro 95

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Watch Me If You Can! Un Cinéma Algérien En Quête De Diffusion Et De Réception, Salima Tenfiche Dec 2020

Watch Me If You Can! Un Cinéma Algérien En Quête De Diffusion Et De Réception, Salima Tenfiche

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

After a civil war that left more than 200 000 dead in Algeria in the 1990s, the return to peace in 2003 and the rise in the price of oil allowed Algerian cinema to return to the international scene. The state has invested several billion Algerian dinars since 2005 to revive film production and start renovating the country's four hundred movie theaters that had been abandoned since the late 1980s. Today, fifty-three movie theaters are functional throughout Algeria, yet they do not open their doors to the public. These movie theaters are still perceived as shady places, and they struggle …


Parties Annexes (N° 95) Dec 2020

Parties Annexes (N° 95)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Front Matter And Table Of Contents (N° 95) Dec 2020

Front Matter And Table Of Contents (N° 95)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Le Cinéma Au Village : Les Beaux Jours Du Cinéma Ambulant Dans Les Années 1950, Odile Goerg Dec 2020

Le Cinéma Au Village : Les Beaux Jours Du Cinéma Ambulant Dans Les Années 1950, Odile Goerg

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Travelling by cart, but more often by train and later by automobile, films reached small towns and large villages alike. Travelling pictures were the first - and often the only - means of access to cinema for much of the African continent. They made it possible to reach the countryside, albeit randomly and sporadically.

To analyse the development of travelling pictures during the late colonial period, this article emphasises commercial, for-profit ventures rather than official, government-sponsored tours playing educational and propaganda films - though the line between the two was often blurred. Whether they functioned autonomously or were tied to …


La Distribution En France Des Films D'Afrique Sud Saharienne Francophone, Patricia Caillé, Claude Forest Dec 2020

La Distribution En France Des Films D'Afrique Sud Saharienne Francophone, Patricia Caillé, Claude Forest

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Since the first such productions of the post-independence era, films directed by African filmmakers from former sub-Saharan French colonies have enjoyed very limited broadcast in theatres in France. Indeed, with very few exceptions, they have hardly been seen by French audiences at all. The image of the "festival film" - a label they were assigned - has had a significant negative impact, reinforcing their status as niche films reserved exclusively for film buffs. The few film titles that come up over and over again have led critics astray, restricting their view of this cinema to the places and stories portrayed …


La Diffusion Des Films Tunisiens Postrévolutionnaires, Emna Mrabet Dec 2020

La Diffusion Des Films Tunisiens Postrévolutionnaires, Emna Mrabet

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

After a long period of stagnation, Tunisian cinema is experiencing a new boom today. The postrevolutionary era is thus marked by an artistic proliferation which is reflected through a multiplication of cinematographic achievements. We witness a diversification of styles and aesthetics and the advent of trends that dare to question society on its taboos and the barriers it poses to the development of the individual. These new productions are often awarded prizes in international festivals and are supported by an essential event: The Carthage Film Festival. In light of these considerations, it is necessary in this article to observe in …


« Made In Rdc ». Nouvelles Productions Filmiques Et Distributions Locales, Silvia Riva Dec 2020

« Made In Rdc ». Nouvelles Productions Filmiques Et Distributions Locales, Silvia Riva

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Compared to other African countries and despite the potential size of its audience, until the beginning of the new millennium, Congo DRC seemed to be lagging behind in its local film production. Guido Convents' work on Congolese cinema from the earliest times to the present shows a portrait of cinematography around the Congo, which takes into account cinema "for Congolese, by Congolese or with Congolese actors" for lack of an indigenous productive centrality, if not limited to feature films directed by Mwezé Ngangura and recognized authors of the diaspora (Balufu Bakupa Kanyinda, among others). With the success of the feature …


Index (N° 95) Dec 2020

Index (N° 95)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Ousmane Sembène : Un Paradoxe Postcolonial Du Cinema Africain?, Mbaye Diouf, Edoardo Cagnan Dec 2020

Ousmane Sembène : Un Paradoxe Postcolonial Du Cinema Africain?, Mbaye Diouf, Edoardo Cagnan

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

How can we quantify the success of an African film in a postcolonial context? This article aims to answer this question by analyzing the case of Mooladé (2004), Ousmane Sembène's last full-length feature. The issues and the conditions of its circulation show the militant intention of the film-director, and we can notice a subtle competitive relation between the artistic value of the film and its pedagogical content, which is seen as politically acceptable in Africa. Budget and circulation issues put the spotlight on the tight situation of Francophone film industry: the imbalance of power relationships often forces the African film-director …


Front Matter And Table Of Contents (N° 94) Jun 2020

Front Matter And Table Of Contents (N° 94)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Présence Francophone, Numéro 94 Jun 2020

Présence Francophone, Numéro 94

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Figures De Vulnérabilité Et Résistance Dans Une Si Longue Lettre De Mariama Bâ, Moolaadé D'Ousmane Sembène Et La Grève Des Bàttu D'Aminata Sow Fall, Kasereka Kavwahirehi Jun 2020

Figures De Vulnérabilité Et Résistance Dans Une Si Longue Lettre De Mariama Bâ, Moolaadé D'Ousmane Sembène Et La Grève Des Bàttu D'Aminata Sow Fall, Kasereka Kavwahirehi

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This article is about figures of vulnerability and resistance or "vulnerability in resistance" in A so long letter by Mariama Bâ, Moolaade by Ousmane Sembène and La grève des bàttu by Aminata Sow Fall. It aims to show that no one can be locked in their vulnerability. The individual, even the most vulnerable, is always more than his vulnerability that he can mobilize as a resource in the organization of resistance against the institution or the unjust norms of which his vulnerability is the product. If one recongnizes "porosity of the subject with regard to the social", which porosity means …


Généalogie D'Une Banalité De Sinzo Aanza. Le Roman Des Moins-Que-Rien Et Des Héros Médiocres, Justin Bisanswa Jun 2020

Généalogie D'Une Banalité De Sinzo Aanza. Le Roman Des Moins-Que-Rien Et Des Héros Médiocres, Justin Bisanswa

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This study looks at vulnerability in its full complexity through an analysis at the interstice of sociology and rhetoric of the book Genealogie d'une banalite by Sinzo Aanza. The inhabitants of the poor neighbourhood of the Bronx decide to overcome their misery by digging under their dwellings, in search of copper to sell to the Chinese. This access to money brings them to relish in certain pleasures. The characters live in an enclosed environment that, through the instability of their representation, becomes the space of multiple enigmas: social, sexual and emotional. These characters provoke a condensation of meaning leading to …


D'Une Violence L'Autre. Scénographie Des Rapports De Hiérarchie Et De Domination Dans La Préférence Nationale De Fatou Diome, Olga Hel-Bongo Jun 2020

D'Une Violence L'Autre. Scénographie Des Rapports De Hiérarchie Et De Domination Dans La Préférence Nationale De Fatou Diome, Olga Hel-Bongo

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Figures of vulnerability abound in contemporary francophone novels. Be it children soldiers, Black women in Monenembo and Kourouma's fictions, abused children or prostitution in Marie NDiaye, Fiston Mwanza and Fatou Diome's novels, the vulnerable subject, far from undergoing torments of a decadent and miserable life due to a situation of lack, often shows or hides a strength that often sharpens on contact with violence. Fatou Diome uses silence and writing to express the character's resistance to violence. For instance, the feminine subject sets up barriers around the self to counter the adversity of a world often depicted as intolerant, undifferentiated …


Vulnérabilité Et Isolement Dans Rosie Carpe De Marie Ndiaye, Amélie Michel Jun 2020

Vulnérabilité Et Isolement Dans Rosie Carpe De Marie Ndiaye, Amélie Michel

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This article focuses on the topic of vulnerability and the ambivalence of the heroine's strategies of resistance in Marie NDiaye's novel Rosie Carpe. The analysis of Rosie's detachment, oblivion and fantasy demonstrates how memory, consciousness and imagination can become areas of resistance in front of an unbearable reality. As a matter of fact, Rosie proposes an inner reconfiguration of the reality which, by its oversights and alterations, gives her the possibility to escape suffering, obligation and sin. This way, she widens the gap with herself and the world in order to protect herself. Paradoxically, this gap condemns her to apathy …


L'Imaginaire À L'Épreuve Du Carcéral : Le Pouvoir Des Mots Dans Cette Fille-Là De Marssa Bey Et La Voyeuse Interdite De Nina Bouraoui, Chedli Jedidi Jun 2020

L'Imaginaire À L'Épreuve Du Carcéral : Le Pouvoir Des Mots Dans Cette Fille-Là De Marssa Bey Et La Voyeuse Interdite De Nina Bouraoui, Chedli Jedidi

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The article analyzes the (re)configuration of space towards female resistance in Cette fille-là by Marssa Bey and La voyeuse interdite by Nina Bouraoui. The two authors portray deviant female characters who refuse to be caught up in the social enclave governed by patriarchal law. In these works, the assertion of identity is interdependent on the unfolding of space which opts for denouncing or liberating the voice, the body and the feminine individuality. By convening the imagination along with the female memory, these marginal identities engage in bending the confinement and freeing the speech. Clothed in presumed fragility and weakness, this …


Résistances Et Vulnérabilités D'Une Île. Dany Laferrière Et Yanick Lahens Entre Dérive Douce Et Douces Déroutes, Bernadette Désorbay Jun 2020

Résistances Et Vulnérabilités D'Une Île. Dany Laferrière Et Yanick Lahens Entre Dérive Douce Et Douces Déroutes, Bernadette Désorbay

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Both born in Port-au-Prince in 1953, the capital of a half-island prone to natural disasters and marked by lasting international isolation, the writers Dany Laferrière and Yanick Lahens have drawn mirrored narrative modes from the fortunes and misfortunes of the Haitian insularity. We will first discuss the chiasmus that can be noted between Douces déroutes (2018) by Yanick Lahens, who has never left her country, and Chronique de la dérive douce (1994) by Dany Laferrière who was deeply marked by his departure for Montreal in 1976. If they are both keen to depict the extreme vulnerability of the social tissue, …


Monde Étrange/Étranger-Monde : Chant D'Une Heureuse Fragilité Dans Cacophonie De Ken Bugul, Anaïs Metoukson Jun 2020

Monde Étrange/Étranger-Monde : Chant D'Une Heureuse Fragilité Dans Cacophonie De Ken Bugul, Anaïs Metoukson

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This paper analyzes the psychological vulnerability of a wandering and traumatized feminine character in Ken Bugul's novel Cacophonie. It is argued that vulnerability, presented both as a creative and destructive force, is conveyed using an aesthetic of strangeness. Disturbances accumulate on the figurative, event and semantic levels, maintaining an hesitation between supernatural and natural explanations of the narrative process. However, those same troubles also allow a diving into the pain of a lonely spirit. Ultimately, this psychic maze offers a breakaway, given as a consented and redefined fragility. Through the willing choice of death, the never-ending agony of the character …


Abstracts (N° 94) Jun 2020

Abstracts (N° 94)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Gilbert Doho (2017). Le Code De L'Indigenat Ou Le Fondement Des Etats Autocratiques En Afrique Francophone, Babacar M'Baye Jun 2020

Gilbert Doho (2017). Le Code De L'Indigenat Ou Le Fondement Des Etats Autocratiques En Afrique Francophone, Babacar M'Baye

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Livres Reçus (N° 94) Jun 2020

Livres Reçus (N° 94)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Index (N° 94) Jun 2020

Index (N° 94)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Parties Annexes (N° 94) Jun 2020

Parties Annexes (N° 94)

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Présentation, Kasereka Kavwahirehi Jun 2020

Présentation, Kasereka Kavwahirehi

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

No abstract provided.


Le Docteur Et La Sorcière : Conflits De Médecine Et Concurrence Des Traditions Dans Moi, Tituba, Sorcière ... Noire De Salem, Natacha D'Orlando Dec 2019

Le Docteur Et La Sorcière : Conflits De Médecine Et Concurrence Des Traditions Dans Moi, Tituba, Sorcière ... Noire De Salem, Natacha D'Orlando

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This article focuses on Maryse Condé's depiction of medicine and science in her 1986 novel Mai, Tituba, sorcière. It argues that Tituba's critique of modern western medicine, as well as her definition of witchcraft as a healing art, resonate with some topical feminist issues around the time of its publication. Condé's rewriting of the Salem witchtrials emphasizes indeed the epistemological, as well as metaphysical, conflict between the female Caribbean healer and the male doctor whose diagnoses contribute to Tituba's condemnation. As Tituba's confidence in her power and knowledge grows, she also impersonates the danger of an arrogant science, forgoing Man …