Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Abstract
From the 1980s, writers in the francophone diaspora have examined the post-colonial African identity and its portrayal, according a special place to stereotyping. Thus, they denounce not only its tyrannical hold, but also the devastating effect of stereotyping on individuals and societies. Paradoxically, they show how stereotyping can offer to the post-colonial subject a means of manipulating identity features, therefore, of avoiding predetermination. In its study of, mainly, Biyaoula’s L’impasse, this article also proposes to show how the stereotypes, going beyond the limits of theory, is reborn within he body, becoming a veritable enclosure for forgery of identity.
Recommended Citation
Cévaër, Françoise
(2008)
"Les stéréotypes, vecteurs de la constriction identitaire chez Biyaoula,"
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 71:
No.
1, Article 10.
Available at:
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol71/iss1/10
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