Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Abstract
Representations of sex in the black Africa postcolonial novel often strike us because of their centrality and coarseness. Using examples from three texts (Cannibale; L'État honteux; Les naufragés de l'intelligence), this article examines the manifestation and mainly the motivation of what seems like inappropriate outbursts. In this transcultural approach (beyond the intertextual), the aggressiveness of the sexuality discourse allows the novel to be linked to the large movement of postmodernism. This strategy of “textual extravagance” represents a society that “lacks substance”, a society of pretence, in the � � Baudrillardian�
Recommended Citation
Coulibaly, Adama
(2005)
"Discours de la sexualité et postmodernisme littéraire africain,"
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 65:
No.
1, Article 13.
Available at:
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol65/iss1/13
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