L’oubli volontaire et la réminiscence involontaire dans la perspective des littératures subsahariennes d’expression française

• Authors: Šarše Vojtěch

Title variants

EN

VOLUNTARY OBLIVION AND INVOLUNTARY REMINISCENCE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF SUB-SAHARAN LITERATURES WRITTEN IN FRENCH

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

Today, it is perfectly possible to establish a corpus of sub-Saharan francophone authors of autobiographical novels who are already considered to be the classics of African literatures. The main characters, young Africans fascinated by French culture, suffer from identity alienation and spiritual degradation which causes a process of decomposition followed by an artificial re-composition of their past. The homeland, Africa, as a point of reference, is lost in this process. The protagonist isolates himself from his milieu and it is no more possible to distinguish whether he ignores or refuses his past in homeland. In this article, we will analyze the involuntary reminiscences occurring when the main character is in Paris. Those fragments of memory force him to reconsider his status, origins and allegiance.

Keywords

FR

littératures francophones; roman subsaharien; Camara Laye; Aké Loba; Cheikh Hamidou Kane

EN

Francophone literatures sub-Saharan novel; Camara Laye; Aké Loba; Cheikh Hamidou Kane

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2020
• Volume: XXX
• Issue: Zvláštní číslo – Le monde de la littérature
• Pages: 121-128

Contributors

author

Šarše Vojtěch

• Université Charles

Identifiers

DOI

10.14712/23366729.2020.3.10