Mongo Beti, l’idéologie paysanne et l’environnement rural

Authors

Étienne-Marie Lassi, University of Manitoba

Abstract

This article examines the ideological aspect of the representation of the rural environment in Mongo Beti’s works. It analyses the presuppositions or implicit ideas that underlie the fictionalization of the countryside in order to elucidate the author’s representation of the peasants. It comes to the conclusion that the idea of a new rurality put forward in Mongo Beti’s writing results from the author’s ambivalent attitude towards the peasants : even though he takes their side against the (post)colonial political and economic powers, he decries their cultural and technical backwardness.

Recommended Citation

Lassi, Étienne-Marie (2022) "Mongo Beti, l’idéologie paysanne et l’environnement rural," Présence Francophone: Revue internationale de langue et de littérature: Vol. 99: No. 1, Article 15.
Available at: https://crossworks.holycross.edu/pf/vol99/iss1/15