Écriture de l'enfance et projection fictionnelle de soi dans Impossible de grandir de Fatou Diome

Authors

Damo Junior Vianney Koffi, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny de Cocody (Côte d'Ivoire)

Abstract

This article examines the retelling of childhood in Impossible de grandir. Not only does the study focus on the recalling of childhood memories taken as locus of survival of the "je", as expression of the novelist's personality disguised as Salie, her fictional double, but it also examines the processes and implications of such a mode of literary creation set up as an internal and post traumatic dialogue between present and past, a present and past self. Such conversation, I argue, makes apparent the fragmentations of the "je" and the hybrid identity construction of Fatou Diome. As well, provided this process of writing the silences of childhood, using the genre of auto-fiction, delimits a space of interrogations of all kinds (generic, aesthetic, cultural), it is likely to pave the way to a possible reconstruction of Fatou Diome.

Recommended Citation

Koffi, Damo Junior Vianney (2019) "Écriture de l'enfance et projection fictionnelle de soi dans Impossible de grandir de Fatou Diome," Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 92: No. 1, Article 4.
Available at: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol92/iss1/4