Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Abstract
The article analyses the narrative techniques and the theme of madness in three novels by the Senegalese writer Boubacar Boris Diop, caracterised by narrative polyphony and metatextual reflexion on the production of a story. The speech of protagonists affected by “intellectual madness” plays a strategic role in the structure of the novel which, as a hybrid genre, draws on oral and literary traditions in a still splintered aesthetic. The image of the pack represents an unreasonnable society condemning a so-called mad individual whose madness consists in bringing a counter-memory of the foundation myths.
Recommended Citation
Gehrmann, Susanne
(2004)
"Face à la meute – Narration et folie dans les romans de
Boubacar Boris Diop,"
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 63:
No.
1, Article 11.
Available at:
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol63/iss1/11
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