La figuration de l'écriture dans quelques romans africains contemporains

Authors

Adama Togola, Université de Montrtéal

Abstract

The contemporary African novel offers an acute staging of writing, the image of the writer and a reflection on the issues of literature. Its metafictional and metatextual dimensions give rise to a poetics in which writing appears both as a practice and as a theory of fiction. This study, which focuses on novels of Sembène Ousmane, Alain Mabanckou, and Blaise N'Djehoya, addresses the issue of double fiction. It aims to show that the figure of the fictitious writer sometimes appears as a textual substitute, a form of possible objectification of the real novelist, whose novels tend to turn into a writing project. The various figures (confirmed writer for Sembène Ousmane, amateur and dandy writer for Alain Mabanckou, and Ph.D. students for Blaise N'Djehoya) are all writing about individual and collective stories while probing the mysteries of artistic creation and also elucidating issues such as immigration, identity, and the social function of the writer.

Recommended Citation

Togola, Adama (2018) "La figuration de l'écriture dans quelques romans africains contemporains," Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 91: No. 1, Article 6.
Available at: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol91/iss1/6