Figures de vulnérabilité et résistance dans Une si longue lettre de Mariama Bâ, Moolaadé d'Ousmane Sembène et La grève des bàttu d'Aminata Sow Fall

Authors

Kasereka Kavwahirehi, Université d'Ottawa

Abstract

This article is about figures of vulnerability and resistance or "vulnerability in resistance" in A so long letter by Mariama Bâ, Moolaade by Ousmane Sembène and La grève des bàttu by Aminata Sow Fall. It aims to show that no one can be locked in their vulnerability. The individual, even the most vulnerable, is always more than his vulnerability that he can mobilize as a resource in the organization of resistance against the institution or the unjust norms of which his vulnerability is the product. If one recongnizes "porosity of the subject with regard to the social", which porosity means that "the subject exists insofar as it is marked by the social life which determines it even in its proper appearance" (Guillaume Le Blanc), one must admit that the subject can also constitute himself as a subject by escaping the way in which social norms produce it and the frameworks which take hold of it when it comes into the world. If, on the one hand, the practical effectiveness of norms lies in the fact that it regulates lives, on the other hand, the norm itself "is only posed insofar as it can be challenged from within a life" (Guillaume Le Blanc).

Recommended Citation

Kavwahirehi, Kasereka (2020) "Figures de vulnérabilité et résistance dans Une si longue lettre de Mariama Bâ, Moolaadé d'Ousmane Sembène et La grève des bàttu d'Aminata Sow Fall," Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 94: No. 1, Article 4.
Available at: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol94/iss1/4