Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Abstract
Uusing endogenous aesthetic norms as critical tool, we do not purport to evaluate the avatars of the French language outside of the Hexagon. instead, we locate the languages of the “periphery,” and particularly the Aja-Fon language of Benin, at the center of our inquiry to examine the means by which those languages move away from a text initially constructed on the basis of Western endogenous norms. We proceed to show that only “community intellectuals” can create a dialogue between truly endogenous norms and the universal culturesince“intellectuals by qualification” are often only capable of reproducing the exogenous norms of the Western cultures that shaped them.
Recommended Citation
Vignondé, Jean-Norbert
(2011)
"De quelques normes esthétiques endogènes non légitimées : exemples de la littérature aja-fon du Bénin,"
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 76:
No.
1, Article 10.
Available at:
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol76/iss1/10
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