Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Abstract
The African novel refers to a socio-political as well as a literary History, but does so with guile, expressing this History from an angle. Referring constantly to the social and human sciences, to the point of competing with them, the novel vacillates between dependency and autonomy. It thus proposes a specific knowledge of society, its functioning, and the individuals who constitute it. However, its true intention is not to copy the world, nor even to imitate its life, but to provide a miniaturized replica of both, and set itself up as a vast metonymic duplicate of a certain universe.
Recommended Citation
Bisanswa, Justin K.
(2006)
"La traversée des savoirs dans le roman africain,"
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 67:
No.
1, Article 3.
Available at:
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol67/iss1/3
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