Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature
Abstract
This study shows that a recurring criticism of Francophone literatures often borrows from the essentialist theses of colonial anthropology, and that tendency is even stronger when it comes to the novels by Francophone women writers. The overwhelming majority of critical studies devoted to the subject continue to consider their works as the simple feminist discourses or even the naive testimonies. However, this criticism forgets that since the 1990s, Francophone women’s writing has been part of a world literature that articulates deep postcolonial mutations, both generic and discursive, and reassesses the sexual etiology of fictional societies. This is the subject of this article, which considers sexuality as an essential literary subject in Francophone authors such as Ananda Devi and Fatou Diome. The article transcends generic or national issues to better revisit contemporary human relations from the perspective of a female corporeality caught between the illusions of a media hypersexualization and the negations of a customary hyposexualization.
Recommended Citation
Diouf, Mbaye
(2021)
"Désexualiser le texte féminin francophone?,"
Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 96:
No.
1, Article 11.
Available at:
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol96/iss1/11
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