Écriture et oralité dans l’oeuvre de Calixthe Beyala

Authors

Gloria Nne Onyeziri, University of British Columbia

Abstract

A reading of several works of Beyala will help us consider the way orality works for African women and to suggest new forms of the symbolic representation and of narrative framing drawn from the speech of the people. Reference to their African culture, to their consciousness of cultural identity, helps characters such as Édène, Loukoum and Beyala to define themselves and to lay claim to a critical and self-confi dent voice. They learn from orality the ways of saying of the wise, what is to be retained and transmitted through traditional culture and what aspects of collective memory are better forgotten.

Recommended Citation

Onyeziri, Gloria Nne (2010) "Écriture et oralité dans l’oeuvre de Calixthe Beyala," Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 75: No. 1, Article 8.
Available at: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol75/iss1/8