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De La Pratique Intertextuelle Dans L’Œuvre Romanesque D’Alain Mabanckou, Servilien Ukize

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

Studies on the contemporary African novel reveal the emergence of new themes in a narrative which, by breaking with the model of the pioneers of African literature, stands out by hybridization. Thus, orality and intertextuality are used to better express the realities of a socio-psychological world. This has led, on one hand, to an increased presence of the fantastic element and the mixture of different literary genres and, on the other hand, to the deconstruction of the traditional logic of fiction.

This work discusses the way in which the literary revival of a story and the repetition, conveyed through such …

Mirrors In The Text: Amélie Nothomb’S Mercure, Lisa F. Signori

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

In Belgian author Amélie Nothomb’s 1998 novel Mercure, the multitudes of physical, figurative, and narrative mirrors invite a reflexive reading of the text. While numerous critics have focused on the intertextuality in Mercure—its most obvious manifestation of reflexivity—the novel’s intratextuality has not been analyzed as extensively, and none of these manifestations has been analyzed specifically as an instance of narrative reflexivity. Guided by the theme of mirrors and mirroring, the purpose of this article is to recast in terms of narrative reflexivity some of the extant critical analysis of Mercure, to uncover other as yet unexplored realizations …