Maryse Condé devant les événments africains troublants: entre représentation et discours

Authors

Mouhamadou Cissé, Université du Québec à Montréal

Abstract

The repressed school strike in Guinea Conakry in 1961, the post-apartheid social crisis in South Africa and the 2002 civil war in Côte d'Ivoire are major events in African history that drew Maryse Condé's attention as illustrated through Heremakhonon (1976), Histoire de la femme cannibale (2003), En attendant la montée des eaux (2010). This article analyzes, beyond the modes of representation of events, the critical discourses that emerged from social fictions in examining murderous ideologies, the overflow of political, racial, ethnic identities as well as the obsessions of power that are at the origin of imagined conflicts. It explores how the narrative forms mirror some of the characters' thought patterns in distancing themselves from negative values and camp the author's own thought on postcolonial Africa.

Recommended Citation

Cissé, Mouhamadou (2019) "Maryse Condé devant les événments africains troublants: entre représentation et discours," Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 93: No. 1, Article 4.
Available at: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol93/iss1/4