Niodior ou l'économie du texte diomien

Authors

Mbaye Diouf, Université McGill

Abstract

To a large extent, Niodior may be considered the main biographical and discursive referent of Fatou Diome's entire literary output, to date. In addition to being the birth place of the novelist, Niodior stands as the workshop of the Diomian novel. It is at once the wrestling arena of discourses of the self vs. others, the breeding ground of other "selves" and other possible others. As a consequence, Niodior, in Diome's novels, becomes a textual place which informs the self, the community, immigration and globalization through a semiotic of place. In this article, I argue that an application of geocriticism to Diome's body of work allows us to account for spatial configurations and discursive functions at play in this writer's literary output.

Recommended Citation

Diouf, Mbaye (2019) "Niodior ou l'économie du texte diomien," Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 92: No. 1, Article 7.
Available at: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol92/iss1/7