Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Abstract
In the postcolonial African novel, new places are appearing, next to or replacing the former prison site. They can validly be read as «non-places» whose presence and implications in texts must then be questioned. Attempting a literary re-appropriation of an anthropological notion, this contribution analyzes three novels whose fictions are built around places of transit (of non-places) such as hotel, road and... container. These three figures of the non-place call for a writing of horizontality, rhizome, ephemeral, spatial mobility that reactivate the question of the fictitious or moving identity of the African subject from space.
Recommended Citation
Coulibaly, Adama
(2017)
"Non-lieux dans le roman africain postcolonial francophone : formes et enjeux,"
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 88:
No.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol88/iss1/6
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