Écritures de violence et contraintes de la réception : Allah n’est pas obligé dans les critiques journalistiques française et québécoise

Authors

Isaac Bazié, UQAM

Abstract

The treatment of violence in Francophone Literatures is not only a thematic issue but becomes a writing project that reveals different textual forms as well. Those texts in which violence appears in both aspects – themes and forms – require a particular kind of reception. This article deals with the newspaper’s reception of "Allah n’est pas obligé". The comparison between Quebec’s and France’s journalistic criticism points out that the complexity of Kourouma’s text allows readers to activate several levels of reception: a very contextualized historical one and an aesthetic one. The interaction between those two critical spheres illustrates the complexity of a properly critical reception in Quebec’s journalistic criticism.

Recommended Citation

Bazié, Isaac (2003) "Écritures de violence et contraintes de la réception : Allah n’est pas obligé dans les critiques journalistiques française et québécoise," Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 61: No. 1, Article 8.
Available at: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol61/iss1/8