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Bourlet, Mélanie. "Emergence d'une littérature écrite dans une langue africaine : L'exemple du poulâr (Sénégal/Mauritainie)." Paris, INALCO, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009INAL0013.
Full textThe thesis considers the development of a written literature in an African language, focusing on pulaar (Senegal/Mauritania), one of the major dialectal variants of Fulani. The first part treats the interface between political context, linguistic changes and literary writing on the Latin alphabet. It is divided into two parts and (1960-1990s) centred on the appropriation of the languages by scholars seeking to integrate the culture into their nationalist claims. A second period, which extends to the present, witnesses the appearing of new and less politicised writers who, more interested to the status of individuals in a mutating society, appropriated the art of writing while refusing to use it to express ideologies. The second part considers literary creativity, using some sixty texts (mostly prose and poetry) identified during fieldwork in Senegal and Mauritania. Given the wealth of texts obtained and the author’s desire to reveal their riches, the choice was made to focus on prose, and on four novels from already well-known writers belonging to the second literary period: Yero Dooro JALLO, Nidkkiri Joom Moolo (Ndikkiri le Guitariste), 1981 ; Ibraahiima DEM, Sahre Goonga (Le Monde de la Vérité), 1997 ; Saydu Bah, Sammba Jallo. Moni fof et feccere mum (Sammba Jallo. Chacun sa destinée), 2005 ; Mammadu Abdul SEK, Ngayngu Gid’li (L’Amour-Haine), 2004. The appendix contains the detailed summaries of the four novels and a biobibliography of fifteen authors
Magnier, Julien. "Pour une littérature de l’interdépendance. Littérature et renouvellements politiques en Afrique noire, à partir de Mongo Beti." Thesis, Paris 3, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA030129/document.
Full textThe links between literature and african politic seem to be so close that they concentrated the problematics and the evolutions of artistic field. According to Mongo Beti, the relation is preponderant, whereas Alain Mabanckou asserts that this closeness is a possibility. Between these generations, it exists both an esthetical and ideological change: the crossing from delinking to an interdependant regime. The writers focus on the useful of the form in ordrer to underline the meaning. The politic of literature follows the contours of the world and its entrance in the era of the Poetic of Relation
Martin, Valérie. "Aspects comparés du roman francophone contemporain : France, Maghreb, Afrique noire." Grenoble 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995GRE39028.
Full textThis thesis is divided in two main parts : the study of novelistic patterns and the problems of writing. The first part deals with biographical elements, proving that the chosen authors, nathalie sarraute, mohammed dib, rachid boudjedra, tierno monenembo and sony labou tansi, all felt a desire to break with their original literary style. The composition of the novels, both internally and externally, has been studied in order to prove how the presentation, the introduction and the dedication create a meaningful whole. The division of text (chapters, intertextual references, typography) has also been analysed in terms of its relevance to the novel. The last section of this first part studies the time and space elements within the novel. The second part of this work is focussed on the difficulties presented by writing. The first chapter deals with character study (classification, psychologie and inter-character relationships) and the second chapter deals with the narrator's status (wheter first or third person, etc. ) finally, the third chapter studies the varied uses of the french language through style and above all the reader's responses to this
Waddle, Robin. "Staffrider et la nouvelle en Afrique du Sud de 1976 à 1990." Université Stendhal (Grenoble), 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995GRE39056.
Full textThe aim of this research is to study a particulary literary genre (the short story) in a precise place (south africa) at a specific moment in time (1976 - 1990). So, we have tried to show how the context which surrounds the act of writing (historical, geopolitical and cultural) is bound to influence all literary production. First of all, i present the recent history of the country, its literary magazines and the short story itself (including its criticism) in order to appreciate the south african context and the nature of short fiction. Then having chosen a magazine of the period, staffrider, i studied all of the short texts which appeared in its pages. After the statistical study of the typology of the short story, i analysed the topographical, thematic and narrative choices used in the texts in staffrider, to compare and contrast the writers' individual choices. I have tried to show how these choices perfectly reflect south african society and why the short story corresponds, because of its own poetics, to the needs of the authors in this country at that period. The last part of my work is given over to textual studies which aim to show the importance of context on south african writing
Chaka, Limakatso Elizabeth. "Pitseng de Thomas Mofolo, roman sesotho (Afrique australe) : texte et contexte." Paris, INALCO, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010INAL0019.
Full textThomas Mokopu Mofolo (1876-1948), born in Lesotho, is the author of three novels written in Sesotho language : "Moeti oa bochabela" (1907), "L'homme qui marchait vers le soleil levant" (2003), "Pitseng" (1910) et "Chaka" (1925), "Chaka, une épopée bantoue" (1940). The aim of this research is to study the novel "Pitseng", analyze the context of its production as well as its relationship with the other literary works of author. In order to achieve this, we translate the novel into French, in a way that respects the language register and the oral style of the original novel. Mofolo is the first novelist to write in Sesotho. The research therefore dealswith the emergence of Sesotho literature, in particular, the role of the missionary press and its relationship with the local literature. It begins by examining the 1906 standardization of Southern Sesotho orthography (Chapter 1). The analysis of the novel itself is presented in the first five chapters. Chapter 2 provides a discussion of the general presentation of the novel focusing on the structure of the narrative, themes and characters. Chapter 3 deals with the referential, imaginary and cultural settings in "Pitseng". Chapter 4 analyses the portrayal of traditional society, in particular its values at the centre of which is humanism. Chapter 5 is an analysis of language and the role of the narrator in fictional prose. It studies the representation of the linguistic awareness and pluralism of Southern Africa as well as the construction of discourse characteristic of traditional and Christian societies. Chapter 6 probes into relationship between orality and written fictional prose. A comparative analysis of "Pitseng" with the other two novels of the author appears in Chapter 7 which deals with "Moeti a bochabela" ("L'homme qui marchait vers le soleil levant"), and Chapter 8 wich focuses on "Chaka". This comparative approach is expected to enhance the understanding of the articulation of "Pitseng" with these two literaty works
Desnoyers, Johanne. "Histoire des femmes au Sénégal et au Mali et processus de modernisation : itinéraires et aspirations de la première génération de femmes lettrées." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ51127.pdf.
Full textAlmeida, Amakoe d'. "Le référentiel dans la littérature pour enfants en Afrique noire francophone 1990-2000." Paris 4, 2004. http://www.theses.fr/2004PA040021.
Full textOur research can be divided into three parts whose common purpose is to define the weight of liteature for children as a whole, and especially of african child literature. The opening part called "Analytical approach to literature for children "sets out to show the beginnings of that particular litérature, through a diachronic analysis. Such a literature has its roots rased in oral sources (folhlore), identification criteria with the problems thus raised regarding literature and finally the present dimension of this literature in back french-speaking Africa. The second part has been devoted to the theme of the referential which had led us to demonstrate the philosophy which lies under the writing of these texts. Thus in the third part we have been induced to state that, along with the different aspects of the referential, books actually open out on to the blackafricanworld. Those are real spaces of initiation the African young reader will enter so as to get a better understanding of the world around him and in order to achieve his integration
Kuupolé, Domwini Dabiré. "Dynamisme du français non conventionnel de l'Afrique Occidentale à travers l'œuvre romanesque d'écriture française : approches linguistique et socio-linguistique." Besançon, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995BESA1017.
Full textAli, Doubed Mohamed. "Le soufisme dans la Corne de l'Afrique de la fin du XIXe à nos jours." Lyon 3, 2007. https://scd-resnum.univ-lyon3.fr/in/theses/2007_in_ali-doubed_m.pdf.
Full textTo treat (handle) the above-mentioned subjects. We opted for a tripartite plan (shot). The first part (party), consisted of six chapters, is a sort of general presentation (display) in which we present the region (the Horn of Africa) on the geographical, historic and social plans (shots), then we approach the appearance of the Islam - essentially the Islam soufi-on the region. The second part (party), divided into four chapters. Processes the question of the Sufism, at first in a general way, then by emphasizing the characteristics of the African Sufism and by trying to reconstitute the history(story) of the Sufism in the Horn of Africa in particular thanks to the reports of the inquiries of ground realized in 2003 in three countries (Somalia, Ethiopia and Djibouti). When in the third and last part (party), them consists of three chapters dedicated to the soufie literature considered as an essential element of the spirituality in the Horn. In this part (party) we shah present one of the collections of poetry soufie the most representative, that of ŠayÌ al-Óuruq ÝAbdiraÎmân ZayliÝî. This presentation (display) will be followed by a translation, as well as by a literary analysis o f three poems pulled (fired) by this collection
Megneng, Mba-Zue Geneviève. "La société dans le théâtre d’Afrique centrale : les cas du Cameroun, du Congo et du Gabon. Pour une sémiotique de l’énonciation théâtrale." Cergy-Pontoise, 2008. http://biblioweb.u-cergy.fr/theses/08CERG0373.pdf.
Full textThis study’s based on four main parts, and concerns with a legitimate and necessary wish to reinterpret the history and thematic of African literature, through its theatre. This study also concerns with the problematic of poetical analysis of contents, and over all, its destiny. After the summary of the birth of the modern theatre of Central Africa we have tried to shed new light on a lot of situations of signification what are determining for this theatre
Munnick, James. "Romans et nouvellistes noirs en afrique du sud, de 1948 a 1986 : exploitation litteraire de la vie des gens de couleur." Toulouse 2, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992TOU20046.
Full textThis thesis is an analysis of writings in english between 1948 and 1986 by south african authors of colour (defined as africans, coloureds and indians). 1948 was the year of the official institution of the appartheid policy which aimed at permently separating whites and blacks. The study starts from an analysis of their short stories, novels and other writings which changes, reflecting the attitudes of blacks which were modified in the course of the same generation from passive defence to active resistance. The themes of alienation and the raising of political consciousness are considered, as are historical, sociological, psychological, economic and other political factors. The study terminates in 1986, the tenth anniversary of the soweto uprising
Makni, Rim. "Entre faits et fiction : l'écriture de la nation dans l'oeuvre de Nadine Gordimer : 1948-2010." Paris 7, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA070023.
Full textBy concentrating on Nadine Gordirner's work written throughout her long and prolific career, the thesis covers sixty-two years of South African history and literary production and leads us to examine the synergy between nation and narration. The concomitance of these two notions can initially be ascribed to historical circumstances, since the author's literary beginnings coincided with the advient of the apartheid regime in South Afiica. Starting with the questioning of her own identity as both a white South African and white writer, she then devoted her writing to understanding and recounting the complex political evolution of her country. From apartheid and its colonial origins to the post-apartheid moment and the present era of economic and cultural globalization, these changes have prompted her to rethink existing literary and political forms. We will therefore question the power of Nadine Gordimer's literary discourse to narrate the South African nation. The corpus we use to tackle this question focuses on her substantial nonfictional writing, previously understudied if not unknown, and on its interaction with her fiction (novels and short stories). We can then observe the impact that the choice of a writing genre mig,ht have on the act of narrating the nation. The author, her work and the national question are here presented as 'post-colonial'. However, based on the South African con/text and with the help of recent critical theory, we will also argue that we must redefine such a label which sometimes turas out to be problematic and totalizing
Dossou-Yovo, Noël. "Individu et société dans le roman négro-africain d'expression anglaise de 1939 à 1986." Nancy 2, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992NAN21023.
Full textThe thesis raises a series of philosophical, sociological, aesthetic & literary questions. It comprises six chapters, the first of which is like a preliminary explanation based on the time-space framework of African literature & highlighting elements of chronology, language, regionality, nationality & tribality. Chapter 2 opens up broad avenues of black Africa’s social history. Chapter 3 deals with purely documentary but also ideological aspects of a corpus covering a minimum of nearly 50 & a maximum of 120-odd titles of African novels written in English. The last 3 chapters are complementary to the first 3, just as form and content in social sciences are one. Chapter 4 therefore deals with forms as well as it accounts for data & conditions whereby the novel adapts itself to negro-African realities. Chapter 5 revisits chapter 4 and places into proper perspective the issue of origins as it relates to the main influences that are brought to bear on the negro-African novel as a result of the 20th century aesthetic revolution, characterized primarily in Europe, but also in Africa, by a shift in the relationship of the individual man to the world towards the achievement of artistic completeness
Nyingone, Léa. "Interlangue et radicalisation du discours féminin francophone d’Afrique septentrionale et d’Afrique subsaharienne : cas : Assia Djebar, Aminata Sow Fall, Calicthe Beyala et Nedjma." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LORR0393.
Full textThe present study aims at analyzing the female speech in the texts of Assia Dejbar, Calixthe Beyala, Aminata Sow Fall and Nedjma. The title of the research accounts for two major concepts: interlanguage and radicalization. We base our reflection on three main bets, the first one, defines the interlanguage and questions the existence or not of objectives common to its use by women novelists. The second part, analyzes through new theoretical and critical approaches on language, novels Nowhere in my father's house, Naked woman, black woman, The strike of the battu and the almond. The third part deals with the notion of radicalization by emphasizing the language of the body, reflected in the whole of writing. The reading of the literary texts allowed to divide them into two categories. On the one hand, there are novels that lash and fight by means of a modest and reserved language, and, on the other hand, those who denounce and affirm themselves, through an extremely transgressive and violent language
Dia, Makhmouth. "Comique et tragique : la dramaturgie de Wole Soyinkia à l'épreuve d'une problématique théâtrale africaine." Caen, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009CAEN1560.
Full textThis research is a study of the comic and the tragic in the theatrical work of Wole Soyinka. It analyses, on one hand, the depiction and the dramaturgical relations between the comic and the tragic in his drama and, on the other hand, relates them to the sociological and ideological context of modern Africa. The association of the tragic and the comic is one of the most important pillars of contemporary African drama, according to critics. The aim of this research is to examine the nature, the forms and the meaning of this association in Soyinka’s drama. From the same viewpoint, the aim is to determine the place of comedy in African tragedy. The Nigerian dramatist has proposed an African tragedy based on Yoruba cosmogony, rituals and metaphysics. However, as it is usually the case with propositions of African tragedy, Soyinka has underestimated the comic in the process. Yet, the complexity of this comic invites to a different approach. Broadly speaking, critics seem to have misjudged the comic aspect in African tragedy. Although it is less researched area, it is known that African audiences laugh during representations of tragedies. It is also said that laughter and festivity are part of daily life, including during its tragic moments. On this respect, the aim of this research is to identify an African tragedy through the drama of comic. Soyinka’s drama shows that this comic aspect, this laughter, and this festivity are at the expression of man’s modern tragedy. The dramatic text, the historical and aesthetic process, and the poetics of its reception are the pillars of this expression
Sanon, J. Bernardin. "Production littéraire d'images socio-politiques dans l'écriture romanesque négro-africaine (après les Indépendances)." Aix-Marseille 1, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998AIX10041.
Full textThis ph. D. Dissertation deals with the writing, the history and the images of the french-speaking west african novel from 1975 to 1995 in the different countries covered by our study. We present an in-depth analysis of the works of west african novelists (both male and female) and we study the evolution of the historical conditions, the literary techniques, the use of the language. We also investigate the novelists' involvement in generation movements and their sociopolitical images as well as their strategies to achieve efficiency in the process of enforcing a contemporary african fiction
N'Gbesso, Hélène. "Nouvelles tendances de la poésie écrite en Afrique noire francophone de 1970 à 2000." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030064.
Full textThis thesis on written poetry has for object the knowledge of the kind between 1970 and 2000. It provides on a base of authors and texts, critical insight of the styles and the shapes like the content’s. Fourteen countries are included in the corpus. There are Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central Afiican Republic, Congo, DR Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Gabon, Guinea, Mali, the Niger, Senegal, Chad and Togo. This work is treated in three parts : the literary routes, important themes and the styles. On the thematic point of view, the poems have helped identify several routes of which the most relevant shows stages of the social deliquescence. Since the 70, themes of disillusionment, dismay and discomfort succeeded one another, corresponding to periods of the years 70/80, 80/90 and the 90s to 2000. All this ideas were labeled in the early works of Tchicaya U Tamsi, the precursor of this generation of poets. Meanwhile, a different trend, which carries hope, develops itself. These are the themes of race, love and revolution. As for poetry writing, an outbreak of forms happens, some carries more and more daring characters. Very often, the imagination will draw from the depths of cultures from creation materials. From fully allegorical poems (oscillating between dream and reality) to poems, perfect fusion between several poetic genres (where one is led to speak of the influence of oral poetry on written poetry) alongside more traditional poems built on the quest of fixe shape
Takhar, Jennifer. "L' Orientalisme, la race et la représentation : un parcours littéraire de Zola à Tahar Ben Jelloun." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030044.
Full textLooking more specifically at French Orientalism, colonialism and writings on biological racism in nineteenth century pseudo-scientific discourse, right through to Tahar Ben Jelloun’s exposure and textual riposte to this racism, I hope to trace a genealogy of race awareness and racial discrimination in France and underscore the very gendered nature of racial taxonomies as they are presents in nineteenth century canonical French literature. Very often we find, as Madeleine Dobies argues, that the Orient or Other is feminized and the feminine is orientalised. For instance in Balzac’s novella, La Fille aux yeux d’or (1835) all Parisian women are figured as cloistered odalisque types, describe with the use of anthropological and botanical language which serve to other and orientalize them. Describing women as orientales makes them irredeemably other and provides a titillating gloss to the western female, boosting her sexual credentials. However this othering also reveals the condition of French women who are sexually stimulating as long as they remains indoors. Such literary representations show that the French tradition of orientalism does not always directly represent French colonial subjects or situations. Rather, the allegories about otherness in French orientalism tend to be literary figurations that detour or displace the problems of the colonial encounter; in effect colonialism is often not named or addressed. Biological difference then, particularly in the nineteenth century, serves as a cloaked analogy for racial difference
Cisse, Ibrahima Ousmane. "La satire de la dictature dans les romans contemporains latino-américains et négro-africains d'expression française." Grenoble 3, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995GRE39034.
Full textMany political scientists perceived the recent history of africa as the exact replica of the political process in south america. Post-independent africa indeed experiences identical sociopolitical difficulties with latin american countries : social inequelities, tremendow debt, political subordination, army-controlled political power, etc. . . And those are signs of the failure of politics in both continent which generated a profuse production of literary works, espacially in the field of novel-writing where the dominant feature invariously comes out to be the military dictators. Every literature is the product and the image of the environnement in which it take rooks. This identity of inspiration is therefore not amazing, and such a community of fate has mather favoured the rise of what is called by some people a "thrid word literature". Somehow, novelists in both contients declaim against established military power and demigrate dictators, for they see their works as a contribution to the life of their respective societies. Moreaver, they continually adopt similar literary attitudes. Indeed, if sembene ousmaner or ferdinand oyono make you think of zola or balzac, it is their latin american countes ports that the 1980 ies' african prose weiters take up
Somdah, Marie-Ange. "Le "Pleurer-rire" d'Henri Lopes : à la recherche de formes d'écritures nouvelles pour explorer le drame de l'Afrique indépendante." Besançon, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1989BESA1003.
Full textKaïd, Fatiha. "Enjeux et modalités de la représentation du Maghreb médiéval : l'Île du Couchant dans trois romans historiques contemporains : Zakya Daoud, Djamel Souidi, Amin Maalouf." Paris 8, 2013. http://octaviana.fr/document/181519690#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0.
Full textOur thesis questions the historical referent joint Maghreb with romantic fiction in a problematic genre of the historical novel in three contemporary works of literature Maghreb and Middle East in French. It is organized into three parts. In the first part, "Conceptualizing romantic productions », "The three authors and their novels are presented to highlight their interest in history, then, a historical overview of the conditions for the emergence of the historical novel in the European literary universe and its evolution in other universes outside European borders, such as Algeria, Morocco and Lebanon is developed, with the specific problems of this kind. « The second part, entitled " Processes fictionalization of historical narratives » , Develops a precise stylistic study aimed at determining the extent to which the terms of the expression in medieval Maghreb authors determine its representation and what representations arising thereby freeing speech repositories. The processes are represented by the three authors chosen to mix the high and the little history can discover on this occasion three types of accounts, prompting regarded either as a fantasy story or as an afterthought or as a historical tale philosophical. It is not only to compare the three novels but rather to present three strategies for writing probably related to philosophical questions concern Djamel Souidi Zakya and Daoud Amin Maalouf, like religion and power, the status of women and the concept of identity. Finally, the question of what Julia Kristeva calls "signifying practice “ Is addressed in these works seem to lend themselves to a plural reading in the third part entitled : “Cross-cutting issues and plural reading of representation of the medieval Maghreb”. It tends to decipher the different memory traces or layers of meaning that can produce readings and create meaning. Thus, our thesis allows deepen the link between the history of medieval Maghreb in its borders with its cultural representations, especially in the French historical novel whose accidental’s origins are multiple and functioned as a factor of regional consciousness and national development companies in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, which means differently trans-national topic that is Mediterranean
Moji, Polo Belina. "Réimaginer la nation : nationalisme africain, engagement sociopolitique et autoreprésentation chez les romancières subsahariennes." Thesis, Paris 3, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA030130/document.
Full textNationalism in sub-Saharan Africa « imagines » a homogenous national identity embedded in the mythology of African uniqueness, which represents the woman symbol of cultural roots (the “Mother Africa “trope). This study analyses how the sub-Saharan female novelist (the woman as a mute, extra-historical and apolitical object of culture) appropriates African nationalism (re-imagines the nation) to define a new identity for African womanhood. The study tests the hypothesis that a marginal subject reveals itself in “border location” according to its similarity or difference to dominant subjects. It analyses political nationality (citizenship), cultural nationality (Africanness), and their interaction within the representation of female national identity. And They Didn’t Die and Nehanda evoke liberation movements in South Africa and Zimbabwe to recontextualise women’s cultural affiliation (the woman “pot of culture)” between tradition and modernity. Matins de couvre-feu and L’Ex-père de la nation depict the post-independence disillusionment of Senegal and the Ivory Coast to subvert the dichotomy of public and private spheres which construct a male centred State (the “Father of the Nation”) and the woman-centred “domestic” sphere. Finally, Destination Biafra highlights ethnic nationalism in Nigeria to illustrate the problematic of the intertwining of cultural and political nationalities resulting from the paradoxical construction of the African nation-state: A State (a geo-political space) defined by modern borders and a supranational nation (“imagined community”) delimited by the symbolic borders of a pre-colonial culture
Ngodjo, Ngodjo Elian Sedrik. "Pour une sociopoétique de la nouvelle subsaharienne francophone." Thesis, Limoges, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020LIMO0018.
Full textLong confined to the margins of literary history, the short-story genre in French-speaking Africa has often lacked visibility among critics. Between a long-standing latent disinterest and nascent scientific research today, the short-story has for too long been absent in the African literary field. However, this peripheral posture seems inaccurate and incongruous nowadays, when one revisits its historical trajectory, and especially when we consider the interest that some writers take in it. Having achieved its autonomy as a genre, the short-story can no longer be considered a « premature novel », an « illegitimate genre » etc. This obsolete and old-fashioned vision is here reassessed, and allows, somehow, to direct the critical gaze (on its forms, its favorite themes ...), towards a more objective conception, built from the latest developments of the genre. Like the other narrative forms, and perhaps even more elaborately, the short story, in the French-speaking world, addresses the authors’ social experiences, summarizes their vision of the world and shows the process of its evolution in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is the overwhelming evidence of the observed and experienced reality of the short-story writer in a given time period in the history of his society. The short-story genre takes on the task of bringing to light, with a touch of realism, the worries and phenomena behind the dislocations and transformations of African societies. Based on new social representations taking place in Africa, it bears witness to a transformed Africa, stubbornly oriented towards fundamentally modern structures. For this reason, this genre tends to claim a new perspective, based on a debate devoid of any bias which has impacted it so far
Mpfouma, Bopoungo. "Le mythe de l'initiation dans le roman négro-africain : Contribution à l'étude de l'imaginaire." Grenoble 3, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986GRE39015.
Full textWe treat initiation myth in seven negro-african novels which follow : l'aventure ambigue (c. H. Kane), chaka (t. Mofolo), l'enfant noir (c. Laye), l'etrange destin de wangrin (a. H. Ba), l'initie (o. Bhely-quenum), le monde s'effondre (c. Acebe), and l'ivrogne dans la brousse (a. Tutuola). Our work is a research based on negro-african imaginary. It is divided into three principal areas : 1 traditional commentry critics for the fact that they neglated myth structures which constitut the only true understanding of the texts listed above. 2 establishment of an original lexic of negro-african initiations. 3 analysis of mythical structures which lead to a "mythanalyse", and the definition in a sens which is both psychological and sociological
Afui, Nkili Lyvia Audrey. "L'émergence de la littérature africaine dans l'espace public de l'Afrique Equatoriale Française (1950-1960) : le cas de la revue culturelle Liaison." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LORR0345/document.
Full textPeriodicals such as Liaison, L’Etoile de l’AEF or La Semaine de l’A.E.F. played a fundamental role in what H.J. Lüsebrink called “the conquest of the public space” by the colonised elites, in this case those of French Equatorial Africa (Gabon, Middle Congo, Ubangui Shari and Chad), and in particular, in the constitution of a local literary field. Since 1950, there was a profusion of journals, thanks to the colonial press which managed the rare printing presses and publishing houses of the continent. This study examines the influence of the press on the birth of the first African works, especially for the Frech Equatorial Africa of this time. It refers to a founding era of the African literary history, still too little really studied to day. Although, it is not centered as often on books, but on periodicals which are essential keys for any historical approach of literary life
Kouassi, Kouamé Germain. "Les écrivains ivoiriens et la langue française: heurs et malheurs d'un mariage contre nature : l'exemple de l'oeuvre romanesque de Dadié, Kourouma et Adiaffi." Paris 4, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA040245.
Full textThe present thesis entitled: Ivorian writers and french language: fortunes and misfortunes of a marriage against nature. An example of Dadié, Kourouma and Adiaffi's romance work, it takes a formal study and some detailed stylistic procedures put to work by the three principle writers of Côte d'Ivoire ( Dadie, Kourouma, and Adiaffi) to try and overcome the major obstacles that constitutes, obviously, french language in free expression of their tradition and of their cultural personalities. Also, it clearly looks like these writers have cunningly used in their romantic speech some terms, some constructions and particular forms of expression directly extracted from languages of their motherland by the help of a diversity of gathering and putting together into interlinguistics. Having in that one reference the imaginary african, they have in general foreseen obstacles, succeeded in showing that in the centre of a large language of international communication like french, it is possible to find a place for a plural expression, and, by the same way, for exchange between different languages and cultures
Sow, Abdoul Aziz. "Essai de typologie des genres poétiques peuls (Mauritanie-Sénégal)." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1997PA040181.
Full textThe purpose of this PhD deals with oral Fulani poetry from the Fouta-Toro (Mauritania - Senegal) and is composed of three parts. In the first part, a sociological approach brings into relief the role and function of each of the social classes that are the generating of this literature. A brief survey of works already written on Fulani literature has put an emphasis on the specificity of the former in each Fulani cultural area. Starting from the local taxinomy of poetic genres, this thesis has achieved a typology of poetic genres by showing that poetry is produced in a specific context that regulates its performance and its reception. Poetic genres have had as a main axis of development the social classes that compose the Fulani society of Fouta-Toro. In the third and final part, the literary analysis illustrates two major aspects of this poetry. Rhythm is so far as poets use various means to create. Furthermore, it is the vector of an ideology proper to the social groups to which it is linked with
Joseph-Vilain, Mélanie. "Filiation et écriture dans cinq romans d'André Brink : "Looking and Darkness"Rumours of Rains" "An Act of Terror" "Imaginings of Sand" et "Devil's Valley"." Aix-Marseille 1, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003AIX10066.
Full textPope, Julie. "Émancipation et création poétique. De la Négritude à l' écriture féminine à l'exemple d'Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sedar Senghor, Ahmadou Kourouma, Calixthe Beyala." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030067.
Full textIn the context of the independences of former French colonies, the poetic impetus of militant authors such as Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor or Léon-Gontran Damas is adamantly linked to the rebuttal of colonialism and to political activism. Intellectuals, writers, and artists strongly condemn European imperialisms. For the “Négritude” poets, poetry stands as the most obvious testimony of political and literary commitment. Their poetic works, relying both on oral practices inherited from Africa and on relatively classic prosodic styles, is the vehicle for political messages and reclaiming of African culture. Subsequently, novel writing in sub-Saharian Africa tackles more and more themes of slavery, colonization, colonial alienation, neo-colonialism, all of this becoming empowering processes. The question is to open on a renewed vision of the world, giving the French language a new creative trace, through the authors’ representation. Therefore, Francophone literature reclaims its singularity. This is especially true with Cameroon and Congo: for instance, Ahmadou Kourouma posits that his literature is malinké. Tchicaya U. Tam’si declares that if the French language is colonizing him, then he colonizes it in turn. The colonized rebellion paradoxically leans on the French colonizer language, while trying to displace and advance it through writing. Francophone literature in sub-Saharian Africa is the place of differences and of “différances”, for it bears the traces of many sociological reflexions, and becomes, through its diversity, a place for creativity, liberty and hybridity. We also witness the rise of political protest novel against dictatures, corruption, civil wars ; for example Ahmadou Kourouma, writing Allah n’est pas obligé, does not bother anymore with the rules of literature but excels in the practice of a “rotten language” to describe an atrocious war. This is a form of creativity similar to the one that give birth to creole, “français petit-nègre”, “camfranglais” and one that African sub-Saharian literature explore. It is in this perspective opened by subversive writing and reading practices that women emancipation in Africa takes place. The case of Calixthe Beyala, among others, illustrates this evolution of the status of women in society, beyond the sexual male/female divide. This process stems from post-colonialism and independentist movements gaining power and focus in the XXth century. Women distinguish themselves thanks to their writing and speech in a public sphere reserved to men. Novels written by sub-Saharian African women carefully describe traditional practices, polygamy, forced marriages. These writers, through their acquired freedom speech, have gained the power to participate in the public debate. This form of emancipation takes hold of a language and an art formerly reserved to men because of traditions. Violence, slang words, obscene or pornographic language are no longer part of a male monopoly on poetic language. This poetic creation is vested differently by women writers, who are therefore able to express themselves
Leroux, Pierre. "Figure christique et messianisme dans les oeuvres de Dambudzo Marechera et Tchicaya U Tam'si." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA048/document.
Full textIn most African langages, the Bible is one of the first books ever translated. As a consequence, the images it conveys have played a prominent part in the literary imagery endemic to each region of the continent. Among all the various characters depicted in the Old and the New Testament, Jesus Christ is center stage, since he is the origin of all redemption, as well as an ambivalent character standing at the crossroads of religion and politics. As an implicit character constructed by various discourses, he represents simultaneously or successively a rebel fighting roman imperialism or a collaboraor who gives unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar. This character finds an echo in the works of Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987) and Tchicaya U Tam'si (1931-1988) as he raises questions on the connexions between religion, literature and politics during and beyond colonial times in Zimbabwe and Congo. As a matter of fact, both authors occupy a prominent place in their respective literary landscape. Although they have been disparaged for being overly hermetic or European, they have left a lasting impression on the following generations of writers who consider them as precursors or even « father of our dream » as far as Tchicaya is concerned. Following this approach which combines literary theory and literary history, a reflection on the nature of characters is prompted by the conception of messianism as a dynamics which creates christ-like figures and positions them both in time and space. Finally, by chosing a syllabus including narratives, theatrical plays and poetry, we've attempted to give this type of character its full meaning while questioning the pivotal role it plays for both authors
Hamed, Mohamed Habib. "Le conte oriental et son traitement dans la littérature française jusqu'à la révolution : contribution à l'histoire des mentalités." Paris 3, 1989. http://www.theses.fr/1990PA080436.
Full textIn this study, we felt it necessary to go back to the oral, universal and linguistic origins of the french revolution; these origins are at level of speech both as an endogenus and exogenus sign. The tale is still at the origin of linguistic exchange between the generations both dead and alive; it denunciates social situations and regulates tensions. The tale also acts on reality always translating it according to the satisfaction of a need. The revolution is the best example of this process
Ndemby, Mamfoumby Pierre. "D'une écriture de la rupture à une relecture de cultures : lire et comprendre les pouvoirs traditionnels dans le roman d'Afrique noire francophone." Paris 12, 2005. https://athena.u-pec.fr/primo-explore/search?query=any,exact,990002301960204611&vid=upec.
Full textThe aim was to review French discourse from the dawn of the twenty-first century ; more particulary in the following texts : The Initiated, The cry that you make won't awaken nobody, The Festival of Masks, After the silence, In waiting for the vote of the Wild Animals, The sound of Inheritance, The Identity Card and The one and a helf lives. In the end, after considering the question of traditional powers from each and every perspective, it is the problem of identity, in all its facets, which has been dealt with. Seen from this point of view, the (written and spoken) word has been pinpointed as a source of power in consideration of its social and literary aspect. The question of myths and their stylistic effect of their images have allowed us to highlight the way in which all the elements constituting ancient knowledge have been handed down over time. Myths, which, by means of the narrative structure of their texts, have revealed how contemporary literary works, destroyed by contemporary societies, are affected and they contribute also to to the breaking down of traditional orders. Following on from that, there is an attempt to legitimise Frecnh writings by means of the power of words, as writing of rupture. In order to do this, it was necessary to highlight the structural elements which would help us to define French texts on the basis of their linguistic elements. Subsequently, words have been denoted as a force which generates meaning. This semantic self-generation has helped to reveal the instability of certain characters and the apparent loss of authority bt patriarchs such as Rèdiwa or Makaya, charged with the safe-keeping and the transmission of ancient values. The internal conflict found in French black African imaginative works, often linked to the confrontation between tradition and modernity, is also that which has allowed us to read cultural phenomena differently and has led to the challenging of traditional knowledge. Finally, the entire French-speaking world, or at least that which is mentioned in the third part of this work, eventually reveals itself to be, in one way or an other, based almost exactly on the ancients' model. The analysis carried out during this work has shown how the political arena and the traditional axis of power became interdependent. Political figure circulated freely, moving from one area to another in their pursuit of meaning, without the slightest apprehension. This pursuit of meaning or of identity has led political heroes, seeking to flee everyday difficulties, to make us of the ebb and flow of symbolism and politics in order to construct new identities, new beliefs, and in order to construct a new basis for the relationships with the other, with society and with the universe. If the reading about figures of traditional power has been thus effective, it is because this model has become the matrix of French writings. This attachment to values has given the issue of modernity a dual quelity : on the one hand in terms of being a national treatment of the subject liberated from the pitfalls of nature ; and on the other hand, one which is perceived as the establisment of the new tradition. In each of these two cases, French novelists have tried to make their characters and their writting adhere to this vision of things
Coly, Alexandre. "La réception de la négritude en Afrique lusophone." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015CLF20011/document.
Full textThis thesis studies how Négritude was received in Portuguese-speaking Africa. In order to achieve this, the study addresses the origins of Négritude through the poets and writers of the Harlem Renaissance as well as René Maran’s Batouala. This permits a better discussion of the emergence of the concept of Négritude through Aimé Césaire, Léon Gontran Damas and Léopold Sedar Senghor. The study analyses the ideology of Négritude and the poets’ struggle for the freedom of black peoples and those oppressed by colonialism. Finally, this research examines the impact of the reception of Négritude on the African Lusophone literature of Agostinho Neto, José Craveirinha and Noémia de Sousa. Did it contribute to freeing the colonies of Portuguese-speaking Africa from colonial oppression and to strengthening the quest for identity? This study seeks to show that the humanism of Négritude returns us to a tribute to the human condition and the promise of possibility
Corvaisier, Gaëlle. "Histoire coloniale, fiction féminine : Frictions en francophonies. Étude comparative d'oeuvres de Maryse Condé et d'Assia Djebar." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00978558.
Full textDucournau, Claire. "Écrire, lire, élire l'Afrique : les mécanismes de réception et de consécration d'écrivains contemporains originaires de pays francophones d'Afrique subsaharienne." Paris, EHESS, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012EHES0015.
Full textAt the crossroads of the sociology of culture and postcolonial studies, this dissertation explores the mechanisms by which contemporary writers from Francophone countries of sub-Saharan Africa attain literary recognition. The empirical material comprises archives, interviews with writers, publishers, and cultural agents; ethnographic observations of cultural events; and a statistical survey of 404 writers who were socialized in this part of the world, and who were active between 1983 and 2008. Their legitimation follows two waves: the first occurs in the early eighties and the second in the mid-nineties. The increase in the number of publications, the importance of the novel in the hierarchy of literary genres, and the evolution of the publishing industry combine to structure an African literary space. Its stake is the legitimate definition of the African writer, related to the nature of the writer’s relationship to Africa. The authors located in this space are socially elite and often mobile. From the eighties onwards, the number of new female writers has increased steadily; writers are more professionalized and more often settled outside Africa. Publishers in Paris have played a decisive role in a book market partly dissociated from the markets prevailing in African countries. The analysis of these global evolutions is complemented by case studies: the controversy surrounding the manifesto “Toward a World Literature in French” seen as a collective mobilization; the representation of colonization in the texts of Amadou Hampâté Bâ and Ahmadou Kourouma; and letters from readers
Konaté, Diola. "Réflexions poétiques de l'Afrique dans l'oeuvre d'un écrivain ethnologue surréaliste : Michel Leiris." Clermont-Ferrand 2, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993CLF20048.
Full textThe narrator-poet and ethnographer at the same time-in his literary creations and ther works structures around the theme about africa a theory giving a new dynamic value to the authentic reflections expresin, the spiritual and cultural values and the africa heritage-a theory doubly throun into relief in our study on account of michel leiris' double vocation. According to the ethngrapher all aspects described in his travel book as manners and customs, rites and apparent sources of beliefs, exploitation of magic knouledges and resorts to mythical survivals deserve to be taken into account, for they represent basis from which the africa black explains and integrates his naturel environment but also throngh which be states his attachment to his origins. According to the poet the travel throngh the complex circonvolutions of these irrational wealths, beyond the passion for myths and cultures unknoun of that time, becomes a means of being objective towards the rational logic and to reach a better acquaintance of oneself and the then - a poetic experimentation that he carries on even in his dreams (image of the ethnographe
Manirambona, Fulgence. "Africanité et mondialisation à travers la production romanesque de la nouvelle génération d'écrivains francophones d'Afrique noire." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209947.
Full textLa reconfiguration de l’énonciation dégage les ressorts d’une écriture nouvelle marquée par une narration éclatée, une spatialité multiple et une innovation thématique. La transgression narrative s’intègre au rang des discours de la déconstruction caractéristique de la postmodernité et se donne à lire comme le reflet de l’être de l’entre-deux qu’est l’écrivain migrant comme d’ailleurs son protagoniste. L’espace dans lequel évolue ce dernier peut être interprété comme une transteritorialité dans laquelle se moule la création littéraire marquée du sceau de l’altérité et traduit la « transidentité » du personnage évoluant dans cet espace. La perspective thématique renforce cette idée de l’altérité mondiale structurant le récit africain contemporain. Elle s’engage dans la voie des mutations et des transgressions caractéristiques de la mise en relation de l’africanité et de la mondialisation comme lieu de l’écriture/lecture du roman contemporain.
Le mode d’écriture nous offre un cadre linguistique et stylistique dans lequel se joue l’altérité africanité-mondialisation. Le romancier de la nouvelle génération retravaille la langue française à l’aide des ingrédients des langues et des cultures dans lesquelles il baigne. Cette manipulation linguistico-stylistique est rendue possible par le jeu interlinguistique et le registre humoristico-ironique qui produisent une esthétique du « risible » face aux défis de l’altérité. L’écrivain africain contemporain, décomplexé par ces manipulations linguistique et stylistique, exploite les ressources de l’oralité en vue de concilier la pluralité des formes d’expression et des pratiques langagières de son environnement. Cette stratégie d’écriture produit une esthétique de l’oraliture, celle-là même qui, tout en exaltant les vertus de l’écriture, recourt aux différents procédés offerts par l’oralité, versant de l’africanité du texte contemporain, pour marquer une opposition contre l’écriture et l’Occident qui l’incarne./The African novel by the new generation is made at the meeting point of languages and cultures. In its theoretical and paratextual orientation, the fiction discourse by the new generation can be summed up as a « universality-oriented modernity », a place of dialectic link between africanity and globalization. The ideological context of creation of this literature and the identity questioning bring us to consider africanity as a dynamic notion and the literary globalization as a way to competition and literary legitimacy.
The peritextual discourse, which is a high place of readability/visibility, initiates the strategies of this otherness which the novelist develops largely in textual enunciation.
Reshaping the enunciation shows the motivation of a new writing characterized by a breaking up narration, a multiple area coverage and a thematic innovation. Narrative transgression is integrated in the rank of discourses of deconstruction characterizing postmodernity. It is to be read as a reflection of the being in the space between, this is the migrant writer as well as his protagonist. The space in which the latter evolves can be interpreted as a transterritoriarity in which is moulded literary creation sealed by otherness and shows « transidentity » of the character evolving in that space. The thematic perspective reinforces this idea of global otherness structuring the African contemporary narration. It moves into mutations and transgressions characterizing the relationship between africanity and globalization as a place of writing/reading of contemporary novel.
The writing mode gives us a linguistic and stylistic framework in which takes place the otherness africanity-globalization. The new generation novelist works on the French language he uses by means of ingredients of languages and cultures surrounding him. This linguistic and stylistic manipulation is made possible by an interlinguistic game and the humoristic and ironic register which produce aesthetics of the “funny” in front of otherness challenges. The contemporary African writer, encouraged by these linguistic and stylistic manipulations, exploits the oral ressources in order to reconcile the plurality of forms of expression and of language practices of his environment. This writing strategy produces aesthetics of orality, the one which, in addition to exalting the virtues of writing, has recourse to different procedures of orality, showing thus africanity of contemporary text, to mark an opposition against writing and the Western world which embodies it.
Doctorat en Langues et lettres
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Malzner, Sonja. "La représentation des africains dans les relations de voyage pluri-médiatiques européennes du début du vingtième siècle." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LORR0350.
Full textThe interest of this PhD-thesis originates from the conjunction of two important questions, the first one being that of representation of Africans in literature - and especially in travel literature and in photos. The thesis aims to show that the representation of the "other" is not always as fixed and as clear as one might think. Parting from different theories of the perception of the "other", we aim to show that the representation of the "other" in these illustrated travel books is very often ambiguous. The second is a question of communication and deals with the combined usage of different types of media (text, photographs, drawings, layout, peritexte (Gérard Genette). It originates thus from intermediality. The work aims to clarify the role of these different types of media in respect to the representation of Africans. Does the combination of these different types of media draw a picture of Africans which is different from that depicted in the text or in the image on its own? It is interesting to look at the added value which might be achieved by the combination of these elements. Does the added value arise from newly created dimensions which could not have been achieved by any one form of media on their own?
Adjadji, Anani Guy. "L’enfant et la violence dans le roman africain de l’ère postcoloniale." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018SORUL047.
Full textViolence, war, poverty and precariousness are typical terms, which are repeatedly present in different discourses about the African continent, be it in the media or in the social sphere. In literature, these expressions also dominate the publications of both the colonial and the post-colonial era. Therefore, this work has the main objective of analysing the portrayal of postcolonial violence in selected works published by African French-speaking authors, but without taking into account the figure of the dictator. It emphasizes the issue of children, most especially child soldiers. Moreover it analyses the narrative methods used by the authors, by means of which a child or teenager becomes the main figure in the context of extreme violence. Two novel publications of Ahmadou Kourouma and one of Emmanuel Dongala form the basis of this dissertation. These are works of two authors who, starting in the year 2000, created new structures in the history of French African literature by their intensive writing about the military use of children. It turned out that in their novels, the voice of a child offers a particular view from the lower class of society on postcolonial violence. In addition, the dissertation establishes a causal relationship between postcolonial and colonial violence
Arthéron, Axel. "Les théâtres afro-caribéens d'expression française au XXème siècle face à la Révolution de Saint-Domingue : dramaturgies révolutionnaires et enjeux populaires." Thesis, Paris 3, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA030161.
Full textThe appearance in the 50’ of afro-Caribbean’s pieces setting up the Dominican Revolution proves to be symbolic. Announced by the creation of La Tragedie du Roi Christophe from Aimé Césaire by Jean-Marie Serreau and the Toucan Troupe, these theatricals expressions will go towards defining a proper theatrical type- possessing his own characteristics, his writing codes, his connection with history and historical characters, and above all, his purpose, his finality : his political and popular function. The articulation between the choice of theater, the political theme of the Dominican Revolution and the stakes of the second half of the 20th Century will constitute the insignia of the historical revolutionary theater, both political and popular
Bundu, Malela Buata. "L'Homme pareil aux autres: stratégies et postures identitaires de l'écrivain afro-antillais à Paris, 1920-1960." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210803.
Full textPour ce faire, notre démarche s’articule en deux temps :(1) examiner les conditions de possibilité d’un champ littéraire afro-antillais à Paris (colonisation française et ses effets, configuration d’un champ littéraire pré-institutionnalisé, etc.) ;(2) analyser les processus de consolidation du champ, ainsi que les luttes internes qui opposent deux tendances émergentes représentées d’abord par Senghor et Césaire, ensuite par Beti et Glissant, dont les prises de position littéraires mettent en œuvre des « modèles empiriques » ;ceux-ci régulent et unifient leurs rapports au monde et à l’Afrique.
This study relates to afro-carribean literature in colonial period (1920-1960). We want to examine the strategies of agents like René Maran, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Aimé Césaire, Édouard Glissant and Mongo Beti ;and we want to understand how they invente literary and social identity.
Our approach is structured in two steps: we shall analyse (1) the conditions for an afro-carribean literary field to appear in Paris (french colonialism and its consequences, configuration of literay field.) ;(2) the consolidation of this field and the internal struggles between two tendances represented by Senghor and Césaire, by Glissant and Beti whose literary practice shows the “empirical model” that regularizes and consolidates their relation with the world and Africa.
Doctorat en philosophie et lettres, Orientation langue et littérature
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Helly, Barbara. "The Covenant de James A. Michener : un roman populaire américain sur l'histoire de l'Afrique du Sud." Rennes 2, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001REN20021.
Full textWhy are James A. Michener's historical sagas so successful ? Is it because the general public is fond of their thrilling taste or because the books successfully mix facts and fiction ? An analysis of Michener's novel on the history of South Africa, " The Covenant ", can help answer this question. For Western readers, South Africa is a faraway land which, in a few years, has switched from political struggle against apartheid to sanitary struggle against AIDS. But when the book was published in 1980, the Afrikaners' nationalist power, which relied on the gold and diamond mine landowners, was locked in segregation and repression policies. In " The Covenant " James A. Michener gives his own interpretation of the relations between Blacks and Whites, Bushmen and Dutchmen, Boers and Xhosa, Voortrekkers and Zulus, and finally between Afrikaners and Englishmen, throughout history. To study " The Covenant " is to observe what the American author has selected from a mass of historical facts in order to explain the evolution of South African society. In pursuing our analysis, we will realize that his choices are intimately linked to his political and philosophical ideas. But we will also see that the well-kown specialist of historical sagas stretching through hundreds and even thousands of years, could rely on a whole team whose job was to help bring the South African project to a successful end. Discovering the religious and nationalist significations of " The Covenant ", we will also understand how this good example of contemporary literature was written thanks to a combination of money and skills
Ndong, Ndong Yannick Martial. "Les écritures africaines de soi : 1950-2010 : du postcolonial au postracial ?" Thesis, Strasbourg, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014STRAC004/document.
Full textWe can identify a long autobiographical practice in Africa, if we go back to the Confessions of St. Augustine, and selfwriting has moreover developed in African languages, in pre-colonial and colonial times. At the initiative of anthropologists and Africanists, the first African autobiographies (often written by teachers or students) were collected, while autobiographical writing simultaneously emerged in the French African novel. With the anti-colonial struggle, memoirs were written by leading African politicians, which emphasized the reflexive dimension of African selfwritings. In the postcolonial era, autobiography tends to become more intellectual, oscillating between autobiographical and self-analytic projects. Through a predominantly french-and english speaking corpus, consisting of authors as diverse as Wole Soyinka, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Joseph Emmanuel Nana Appiah, William E. B. Du Bois, Léopold-Sédar Senghor, Lamine Gueye, Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Valentin Yves Mudimbe, Achille Mbembe, Célestin Monga, Barack Obama, Paulin Hountondji or Rasna Warah, our dissertation traces back the mutations of African selfwriting, from the colonial times to the post-colonial era, emphasizing the dialogues established between African authors and French Africanist thinkers, for whom autobiography was much more than a life story. In these literary historical and sociological perspectives, we borrow from Jerome Meizoz his notion of “posture” to study the esthetical, political and literary positions, of various writers and thinkers in African and Western literary fields. We also highlight how self-reflexivity occurs by confronting African self writings to some intellectual autobiographies produced by African-American thinkers and writers. This comparison allows a reflection on the "postcolonial posture" of our authors, and leads to a new problem : the post-racial project that runs through the racialist interpretations of history and identity that characterized many African ideologies such as Pan-Africanism and negritude. Ultimately relying on the idea of "postblackness" now in vogue in the United States, we strive to show that the postracial remains nevertheless a horizon more than a reality of African writings itself, the mid-twentieth century to the twenty-first century
Pereira, Fernanda Alencar. "Literatura e política : a representação das elites pós-coloniais africanas em Chinua Achebe e Pepetela." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 2, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00746533.
Full textDellavedova, Alba. "L'expérience du nouveau entre la construction de soi et la description du monde : le texte comme la rencontre d'exigences littéraires et scientifiques. Le cas d'Isabelle Eberhardt." Thesis, Paris 4, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA040199.
Full textThe thesis describes the work of Isabelle Eberhardt, a travel writer who explores Algeria and Tunisia between 1897 and 1904. The establishment of the original edition of her texts presents several problems considering that quite a number of publishers modified them. The analysis of the editions that are available today and the consultation of manuscripts retained in the Archives nationales d'outre-mer in Aix-en-Provence, allowed to obtain some helpful clarification on this subject, even if the situation remains delicate. Isabelle Eberhardt travels to the islamic Maghreb with the intention of living in Algeria for good, in the desire to construct her new identity, write publishable texts, learn more about local traditions. The diversity of projects means that there is a personal involvement as well a literary and scientific intention. The research method used by our writer during her journeys has been investigated and summerized by the alternation of engagement and estrangement. Eberhardt's poetics is equally clear and it is based on the valorization of the lieu's vitality as well as on the definition of an existential and living space. The texts are the product of a formation process knowledge-based and with a literary purpose. They have been analyzed with a critical and interpretative approach. Isabelle Eberhardt's experience and the values that it promotes make possible a rapprochement with the studies exploring connections between literature and geography
Konaré, Alhousseyni. "Mystique et prophétie chez Léopold Sédar Senghor et Aimé Césaire." Paris 4, 1986. http://www.theses.fr/1986PA040286.
Full textRoy, Mathieu. "MATHIAS E. MNYAMPALA (1917-1969) : POÉSIE D'EXPRESSION SWAHILIE ET CONSTRUCTION NATIONALE TANZANIENNE." Phd thesis, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales- INALCO PARIS - LANGUES O', 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00778667.
Full textMenegaldo, Gilles. "Fantastique et représentation : littérature et cinéma." Aix-Marseille 1, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999AIX10007.
Full textGarcia, Marie-Thérèse. "Le territoire d'Arturo Pérez-Reverte : entre littérature populaire et littérature érudite." Toulon, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005TOUL3002.
Full textThis thesis, devoted to historical romances, detective stories, novels of adventure of Arturo Pérez-Reverte aims at highlighting the way the author bridges the gap between popular and scholarly fiction. Starting from a definition of both these literary genres, the background which favoured the emergence of this new form for a new reading public serves as introduction. Next, the way the novelist, in the tradition of popular fiction, blends the artifices of cinema and soap opera in his historical romances, on the one hand and the devices of quest and enquiry in his detective stories on the other, is examined. Then the covert or overt element of intertexuality available to the reader capable of deciphering the various layers of meaning and rewriting is referred to. The influence of Borges and Eco— labyrinthine construction, delight in mystification, and constant swing between realism and phantasy — constitutes the fourth and final part
Kane, Bouna. "L'Interculturalité au regard du roman victorien et africain : essai d'analyse des romans de Chinua Achebe et Ngugi wa Thiong'o au miroir de Thomas Hardy et Joseph Conrad." Paris 3, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008PA030011.
Full textThe study of cultural hybridity in literature remained tied to a theory which defines postcolonial literatures in terms of their oppositional relationship with the West. In this thesis, we attempted to go beyond the “writing back to the center”. We have not ignored the debate over standard criticism but we have chosen to demonstrate by means of this comparative study that the African novel is part of a larger fictional universe. By appropriating the techniques of the Victorian literary tradition associated with Thomas Hardy and Joseph Conrad, African writers create a useful device for developing greater understanding and improved communication among people from different cultural, racial and ethnic groups. We found striking similarities between the Scottish clan and the African tribe in terms of social organisation and way of life. Like Scott and Hardy, Ngugi and Achebe draw the substance of their novels from the folklore and popular traditions of their communities. African and Victorian novelists have a clear awareness of the human predicament and show how fate can be cruel to the individual