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Présentation, Carrol F. Coates
Présentation, Carrol F. Coates
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
A bibliography of Ahmandou Kourouma appears at the end of this article.
Jeux De Miroirs : Kourouma L'Interprete?, Justin K. Bisanswa
Jeux De Miroirs : Kourouma L'Interprete?, Justin K. Bisanswa
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Critics have often tended to show how Ahmadou Kourouma has expressed the disillusionment of the African "suns of the independences," ''tropicalized" the French language by bending its syntax to fit that of Malinke, and produced novels for "occidental importation" on the basis of oral texts. From a standpoint of sociopragmatics, in contradistinction, I would like to detail the internal specificity of Kourouma's fictional text by its means of production by analyzing it with respect to its cycle of production in terms of strategies, the writer's itinerary, its placement at the center of the literary field, etc. In addition, I will …
L'Incipit Dans L'Œuvre D'Ahmadou Kourouma, Sélom Komlan Gbanou
L'Incipit Dans L'Œuvre D'Ahmadou Kourouma, Sélom Komlan Gbanou
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
The literary work can develop an internal identity as a particular mark. Several African writers incorporate into their novels indications of culture that derive from verbal arts. This method gives to the writing a particular aesthetic in between two cultures, creating in the writing an individuality of certain writers such as Ahmadou Kourouma. For him the question is not only to distort the French language to express his Malinke identity, but also to develop a method of incipit that belongs to verbal art.
L'Espace Scriptural Chez Kourouma Ou La Tragicomédie Du Roman, Jean Ouédraogo
L'Espace Scriptural Chez Kourouma Ou La Tragicomédie Du Roman, Jean Ouédraogo
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Ahmadou Koruouma's fiction transcends the traditional limits of the novelistic genre. This explains, in part, the irritation of both the French and the African establishments following the appearance of his first novel, Les soleils des independances, in which both writing and language enhance the subversive effect. The banning and subsequent disappearance of Kourouma's play, Tougnatigui ou le Diseur de verite and the dramatic adaptations of his first two novels call for an appreciation of his entire work from a dramaturgical perspective. In this study, we shall analyse the constitutive elements of the intergeneric qualities underlying Kourouma's writing. To this end, …
Kourouma 2000 : Humour Obligé!, Annik Doquire Kerzberg
Kourouma 2000 : Humour Obligé!, Annik Doquire Kerzberg
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Ahmadou Kourouma's novel Allah n'est pas oblige belongs to the rich literary vein of texts, both autobiographical and fictitious, that are written in French, for adults, portraying children. This novel stands out however through the young narrator's humor as well as through the tragic nature of its topic: child-soldiers. This article analyzes the humor, presenting it as the only possible and thus the "obliged" mode of narrating and reading the atrocities of recent tribal wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone.
Créativité Esthétique Et Enrichissement Du Français Dans La Prose Romanesque D'Ahmadou Kourouma, Gerard Marie Noumssi, Rodolphine Sylvie Wamba
Créativité Esthétique Et Enrichissement Du Français Dans La Prose Romanesque D'Ahmadou Kourouma, Gerard Marie Noumssi, Rodolphine Sylvie Wamba
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
It becomes clear that Ahmadou Kourouma's literary work is marked by the predominance of authentically African techniques of expression (semantax). With this in mind, the present study tries to analyse its linguistic manifestations as techniques of aesthetic creativity and of the enrichment of the French language through the writing of novels. This is why we have serialized and described the expressive neologies in the corpus of our study while pointing out their stylistic effects: the Negro-African imagery. Still in the same perspective the strategies identified and analyzed help to illustrate a narrative polyphony resulting from highly oralized contexts with the …
L'Enfance Échouée Comme Source De Drame Dans En Attendant Le Vote Des Betes Sauvages, Kasongo M. Kapanga
L'Enfance Échouée Comme Source De Drame Dans En Attendant Le Vote Des Betes Sauvages, Kasongo M. Kapanga
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
En attendant le vote des betes sauvages can be read as a discursive analysis of the problematic of the ruling class identity. In reality, who are the African rulers whose poor governance has pushed the continent to the brink of bankruptcy? Everything can be traced back to that childhood which, in the case of this elite, has resulted in paralysis. Analysis uncovers failed childhood immobilized in an ideology of servitude.
La Littérature D'Enfance Et De Jeunesse D'Ahmadou Kourouma, Guy Tegomo
La Littérature D'Enfance Et De Jeunesse D'Ahmadou Kourouma, Guy Tegomo
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
For some years, a certain number of Black African publishers and writers have tried to reverse a tendency to forget young readers. Among the African writers, Ahmadou Kourouma holds a special place. His works for young readers actually reveal an unusual formal approach in which, for example, he combines two genres as different as the documentary album for children with a novel for adolescents. These are works reflecting an ancestral Africa for which the author strives to preserve the memory by placing at the disposition of young Africans the elements for reappropriating their culture and society.
Mansour Dramé. L'Interculturalité Au Regard Du Roman Sénégalais Et Québeçois, Kanaté Dahouda
Mansour Dramé. L'Interculturalité Au Regard Du Roman Sénégalais Et Québeçois, Kanaté Dahouda
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
No abstract provided.
En Attendant Le Plan Marshall : Consommation Endogène De La Littérature Camerounaise, Pierre Fandio
En Attendant Le Plan Marshall : Consommation Endogène De La Littérature Camerounaise, Pierre Fandio
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Despite the numerous forms of "aid" it has always received, Africa remains the only continent on the fringe of the tremendous development that the rest of the world has been experiencing in the last two centuries. The sectorial analysis of the literary works in this paper illustrates how the implementation of the various "Marshall Plan" is meant to bring about the development of a whole continent and a country like Cameroon. This could be done by involving actors of the cultural domain in the analysis of data and formulation of solution. Such development could give a boost to profitable endogenous …
Livres Reçus
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
No abstract provided.
Abstracts
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
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Index
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
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Front Matter And Table Of Contents (V.59)
Front Matter And Table Of Contents (V.59)
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
No abstract provided.
Jean Cleo Godin (Dir.). Nouvel/Es Ecritures Francophones. Vers Un Nouveau Baroque?, Désiré Nyela
Jean Cleo Godin (Dir.). Nouvel/Es Ecritures Francophones. Vers Un Nouveau Baroque?, Désiré Nyela
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
No abstract provided.
Parties Annexes
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
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Présence Francophone, Numéro 59 (2002)
Présence Francophone, Numéro 59 (2002)
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
No abstract provided.
Le Bilakoro À L'Honneur: Les Prix Et Les Titres Honorifiques D'Ahmadou Kourouma, Carrol F. Coates
Le Bilakoro À L'Honneur: Les Prix Et Les Titres Honorifiques D'Ahmadou Kourouma, Carrol F. Coates
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
The prix de la Francite, awarded by the journal Etudes franqaises, brought to Ahmadou Kourouma the publication of his first novel, Les soleils des independances, and exceptional renown for the author of a single novel. He received two other prizes when Les soleils ... was republished in Paris in 1970. After a "silence" of some twenty years, during which he was working as an actuary and an insurance expert in various countries, Kourouma surprised the literary world by publishing, in 1990, a second novel, Manne, outrages et defis. This novel along with two more, En attendant le vote des betes …
Boris Vian's American Movie: The Lost Authorship Of I Will Spit On Your Graves , M. Martin Guiney
Boris Vian's American Movie: The Lost Authorship Of I Will Spit On Your Graves , M. Martin Guiney
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Boris Vian (1920-1959) is today considered one of France's foremost avant-garde novelists of the twentieth century, but in his lifetime he was known to a wide audience as the author of one work: J'irai cracher sur vos tombes (I Will Spit on Your Graves), a pastiche of American hard-boiled fiction which he published in 1946 under the name of a fictitious Black American author, Vernon Sullivan. Vian died twelve years later of heart failure while viewing the film adaptation, which he had no part in producing. Vian-as-author "died" long before that fateful moment, however: first when he perpetrated a …
When I Means We: A Reading Of School In French Caribbean Apprenticeship Novels , Pascale De Souza
When I Means We: A Reading Of School In French Caribbean Apprenticeship Novels , Pascale De Souza
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
While most critics agree that the quest for identity which underlies much of post-colonial literature is illustrated in the thematic approaches adopted by writers, this study further the argument by suggesting that it also conditions writers' selection of narrative strategies. In its representation of subjectivity in process, the apprenticeship novel seems to offer an enticing model of self-completion. This narrative strategy, however, presents particular complexities when used to portray coming of age in a society divided along ethnic lines. Simon Gikandi argues with regards to the Caribbean that the probability of a quest for identity reaching fruition is nil, but …
Reviews Of Recent Publications
Reviews Of Recent Publications
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Avelar, Idelber. The Untimely Present: Post-Dictatorial Latin American Fiction and the Task of Mourning by Herbert J. Brant
Bertharion, Jacques-Denis. Poetique de Georges Perec by Warren Motte
Cascardi, Anthony J. Consequences of Enlightenment by Holger Briel
Cloonan, William. The Writing of War: French and German Fiction and World War II by Damon Rarick
Holloway, Vance R. El Posmodernismo y otras tendencias de la novela espanola (1967-1995) by Nancy Vosburg
O'Neill, Patrick. Gunter Grass Revisited by Stuart Taberner
Smorkaloff, Pamela Maria. Cuban Writers On and Off the Island: Contemporary Narrative Fiction by Teresa R. Arrington
Crossing Francophone Boundaries: Beckett's Fictions, Beryl Schlossman
Crossing Francophone Boundaries: Beckett's Fictions, Beryl Schlossman
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Although Samuel Beckett's œuvre is bilingual in French and English, his writing is generally considered to be the product of a single national identity…
Remembrance Of The Lost Guyanese Novel: Atipa, Marc Lony
Remembrance Of The Lost Guyanese Novel: Atipa, Marc Lony
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
In 1885 the Ghio publishing house in Paris brought out Atipa, roman guyanais (Atipa: A Guianese Novel), written in Guianese Creole by an author who signed himself Alfred Parépou…
Marketing Strategies For A New Academic Economy: Can We Sell French Without Selling Out?, Mary Jean Green
Marketing Strategies For A New Academic Economy: Can We Sell French Without Selling Out?, Mary Jean Green
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
When I was asked to participate in this discussion, I was told that my comments should reflect in some way the perspective I gained by temporarily crossing the line into academic administration when I became Associate Dean of the Faculty in charge of the Humanities at my home university five years ago, an experience from which I'm still in recovery...
Reassessing Marguerite Duras, Carol J. Murphy
Reassessing Marguerite Duras, Carol J. Murphy
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Since her death on March 3, 1996, Marguerite Duras continues to "live on" through the ongoing critical appreciation of her works…
Frise Du Métro Parisien (Poem Of The Paris Subway), Jacques Jouet
Frise Du Métro Parisien (Poem Of The Paris Subway), Jacques Jouet
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Jacques Jouet has emerged over the past ten years as one of the most consistently intriguing voices in contemporary French literature, and one of the most versatile, as a glance at his bibliography will clearly show…
Christian Oster's Picnic, Warren Motte
Christian Oster's Picnic, Warren Motte
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
With eight novels published by the Editions de Minuit in the last decade, Christian Oster has established himself as one of the most interesting figures in a cohort of new French writers who are gradually redefining the novel as literary form…
Interview With Ghada Amer, Estelle Taraud
Interview With Ghada Amer, Estelle Taraud
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Interview with Ghada Amer
Cathodisms, Stéphane Spoiden
Cathodisms, Stéphane Spoiden
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
At a time when European television is undergoing constant change, it is undoubtedly more opportune than ever to talk about it, less perhaps because it would be "mediocratized"' than because new multimedia techniques which are developing at the current time could render it obsolete or at least radically transform it...
Poetry Of The Resistance, Resistance Of The Poet, Yasmine Getz
Poetry Of The Resistance, Resistance Of The Poet, Yasmine Getz
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
The expression "French Resistance poetry" tends to immediately suggest a poetry written for an audience belonging to a specific historical period, namely that stretching from 1940, the time of the French defeat and collaboration, to 8 May 1945, the date of the Allied Victory over Nazism...