Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Abstract
This article offers a discussion of “development” rhetoric as expressed in and around television drama in Kinshasa, capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Producers (artists and pastors of Awakening Churches; some individuals are both) contend that their work will transform society, will combat the social and political crisis and will contribute to the development of the nation. Pentecostal christians embrace the melodrama because these television serials emphasize the spiritual development of the individual. I argue that the fictive representation of witchcraft relates to the Pentecostal diagnosis of the crises, and that the narrative emplotment of the TV serials is fully in line with the cultural key scenario professed in Pentecostal churches.
Recommended Citation
Pype, Katrien
(2016)
"« Nous avons besoin d’ouvrir le pays » : le développement et le scénario clef du point de vue chrétien dans l’espace social des séries télévisées de Kinshasa,"
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 87:
No.
1, Article 11.
Available at:
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol87/iss1/11
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