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Westview: Vol. 24, Iss. 1 (Fall/Winter 2004) Dec 2004

Westview: Vol. 24, Iss. 1 (Fall/Winter 2004)

Westview

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Chaos Temporel Et Chaos Romanesque Dans Allah N'Est Pas Obligé D'Ahmadou Kourouma, Nathalie Roy Dec 2004

Chaos Temporel Et Chaos Romanesque Dans Allah N'Est Pas Obligé D'Ahmadou Kourouma, Nathalie Roy

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This paper proposes an analysis of time representation in Allah n’est pas obligé with concepts taken from Temps et récit. It aims to show that in relation to Kourouma’s novel, one of Ricoeur’s hypothesis is revealingly insufficient. This hypothesis actually questions representation modes occuring in the text, exposing one of the sources of fictional chaos.


Parties Annexes Dec 2004

Parties Annexes

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

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Transcrire L'Horreur Sur L'Espace De La Page, Bernadette Ginestet-Levine Dec 2004

Transcrire L'Horreur Sur L'Espace De La Page, Bernadette Ginestet-Levine

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Rachid Boudjedra’s Timimoun uses the theatrical convention of a minibus taking tourists to the desert. In this mini-bus, news from the outside world is brought through the radio, which plays the part of a messenger. The narration moves forward by a progression of press releases that report bombings committed by terrorists. The barbarian nature of the acts is transcribed on the page by means of typography. The spatial/visual convention itself is set in concentric lexical fields – liquid, then desertic – erected as fences in an attempt to confine the unbearable.


La Vie Et Demie Ou Les Corps Chaotiques Des Mots Et Des Êtres, Caroline Giguère Dec 2004

La Vie Et Demie Ou Les Corps Chaotiques Des Mots Et Des Êtres, Caroline Giguère

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Due to its polysemy, corporality has several functions in the works of Sony Labou Tansi. More than descriptive or thematic elements, the novelistic bodies in La vie et demie are at the same time meeting points for multiple meanings, objects and producers of discourse. This study aims to demonstrate how the writing of the body is symbolic of a disorder that characterizes the forms and contents of Sony Labou Tansi’s novels and invites the reader to reflect on language and its power.


Face À La Meute – Narration Et Folie Dans Les Romans De Boubacar Boris Diop, Susanne Gehrmann Dec 2004

Face À La Meute – Narration Et Folie Dans Les Romans De Boubacar Boris Diop, Susanne Gehrmann

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

The article analyses the narrative techniques and the theme of madness in three novels by the Senegalese writer Boubacar Boris Diop, caracterised by narrative polyphony and metatextual reflexion on the production of a story. The speech of protagonists affected by “intellectual madness” plays a strategic role in the structure of the novel which, as a hybrid genre, draws on oral and literary traditions in a still splintered aesthetic. The image of the pack represents an unreasonnable society condemning a so-called mad individual whose madness consists in bringing a counter-memory of the foundation myths.


Folie Et Écriture Dans Calomnies De Linda Lê, Ching Selao Dec 2004

Folie Et Écriture Dans Calomnies De Linda Lê, Ching Selao

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This article proposes to explore the many faces of madness through a reading of Linda Lê’s Calomnies, in which two narrative voices are presented. The following shall demonstrate how this novel reproduces a “romantic” perception of madness as encountered in Michel Foucault’s work. Although this narrative text introduces a mad narrator speaking in the “I” persona, it nonetheless points out the difficulties of letting madness speak for itself. These difficulties are also examined in this study.


Les Pouvoirs Du Récit : Un Remède Au Chaos Du Monde? En Attentant Le Vote Des Bêtes Sauvages, Madeleine Borgomano Dec 2004

Les Pouvoirs Du Récit : Un Remède Au Chaos Du Monde? En Attentant Le Vote Des Bêtes Sauvages, Madeleine Borgomano

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

Right from his first novel, Les Soleils des Indépendances (1970), Kourouma introduced the theme of the reversed world, a baroque metaphor for the state of Africa after Independence. In Monnè (1990), telling the history of this reversal, he insisted on its linguistic roots. Consequently, En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages (1998) shows how this reversal in the context of Cold War, favoured the genesis and development of dictatorial powers leading to an actual apocalypse. This victory of Chaos is told as a donsomana, traditional song of expiation among the Malinke hunters. The forms and magic virtues of this song …


Le Goût Des Jeunes Filles De Dany Laferrière : Du Chaos À La Reconstruction Du Sens, Nathalie Courcy Dec 2004

Le Goût Des Jeunes Filles De Dany Laferrière : Du Chaos À La Reconstruction Du Sens, Nathalie Courcy

Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature

This paper analyses the way politics, society and the representation of speech is structured in Le goût des jeunes filles, Dany Laferrière’s fourth novel. How do the events told and the disorganised narration itself symbolise the unspeakable? Moreover, how does the characters’ speech rebuild the meaning of existence, and how does Laferrière see the future? Chaos, madness, all that overtakes or destroys the norm, anchors fiction in an attempt to reorganize reality and the imaginary.


Untitled Photo #2, Erin Nagel Nov 2004

Untitled Photo #2, Erin Nagel

Westview

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Mary Lafrance, After Her Talk With Sheriff Dennehy, Robert Cooperman Nov 2004

Mary Lafrance, After Her Talk With Sheriff Dennehy, Robert Cooperman

Westview

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Original Sin, Allison M. Smith Nov 2004

Original Sin, Allison M. Smith

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Hungry Cancer, Jason Sullivan Nov 2004

Hungry Cancer, Jason Sullivan

Westview

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Edgar Goodrich, After The Burial Of Reverend Burden, Robert Cooperman Nov 2004

Edgar Goodrich, After The Burial Of Reverend Burden, Robert Cooperman

Westview

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Keeping On, Earl Coleman Nov 2004

Keeping On, Earl Coleman

Westview

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The Revised Standard Version, Rachel Chalmers Nov 2004

The Revised Standard Version, Rachel Chalmers

Westview

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Untitled Photo #1, Erin Nagel Nov 2004

Untitled Photo #1, Erin Nagel

Westview

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Photographs, Gerald Wheeler Nov 2004

Photographs, Gerald Wheeler

Westview

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Grandfather And His Kelvedon Sweetheart, John Grey Nov 2004

Grandfather And His Kelvedon Sweetheart, John Grey

Westview

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Chronology, Celia Stuart-Powles Nov 2004

Chronology, Celia Stuart-Powles

Westview

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Judi A. Rypma Nov 2004

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Judi A. Rypma

Westview

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The Sad Tale Of Angel Sonora, Thor Jourgensen Nov 2004

The Sad Tale Of Angel Sonora, Thor Jourgensen

Westview

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Dancing With Siva, Fredrick Zydek Nov 2004

Dancing With Siva, Fredrick Zydek

Westview

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Contributors, Westview Staff Nov 2004

Contributors, Westview Staff

Westview

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The Conditions Upon Norbert's Planetesimal, Stefanie Freele Nov 2004

The Conditions Upon Norbert's Planetesimal, Stefanie Freele

Westview

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Waiting For It, Deborah Atherton Nov 2004

Waiting For It, Deborah Atherton

Westview

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Sage And Cowdogs, Walt Mcdonald Nov 2004

Sage And Cowdogs, Walt Mcdonald

Westview

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High In The San Juan, Walt Mcdonald Nov 2004

High In The San Juan, Walt Mcdonald

Westview

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My Boy At Shiloh, J. Chester Johnson Nov 2004

My Boy At Shiloh, J. Chester Johnson

Westview

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Pentimento, Julia Wendell Nov 2004

Pentimento, Julia Wendell

Westview

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