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Dialectique De La Figuration. Ken Bugul Au Miroir De Son Œuvre, Justin Bisanswa
Dialectique De La Figuration. Ken Bugul Au Miroir De Son Œuvre, Justin Bisanswa
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Drawing from Ken Bugul's novel The Abandoned Baobab, generally considered as a projection of the autobiography of its author, this article shows that the novelist is revealed by veiling, and is thus subject to a self-objectification in which the fantasy narrative echoes the autobiographical narrative. Various self portraits are on display: feminist, rebel, accursed, failed, exiled. The text oscillates between the here and the elsewhere, inversing the fullness lived with the emptiness of there, thus confusing the here and the elsewhere. Three postures of liberation characterize the narrator's attitude: withdrawal, fascination and derision. Through various strategies, while committing to …
La Figuration De L'Art Dans Les Romans De V.Y. Mudimbe, Olga Hel-Bongo
La Figuration De L'Art Dans Les Romans De V.Y. Mudimbe, Olga Hel-Bongo
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
In Mudimbe's novels, art depicts the author and his writings, through a play of substitution and decentering. The author uses the artistic medium to escape constraints of discursive, religious, political or sexual order and as a place of transfiguration of the characters' desires. The aim of this article is to show that references to painting, literature, cinema and music reflect the refusal of the I to speak about oneself, except indirectly. The author chooses a strategy of decentering by combining the language of words and of images, and suggests, behind the mask of narrative representation, a taste for provocation, social …