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International Journal of Francophone Studies - Volume 5, Issue 1, 2003
Volume 5, Issue 1, 2003
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L'importance de l'axe vertical dans Chants d'ombre de Senghor
More LessThis article deals with both the aesthetics and the socio-political dimensions of Senghor's poetry and explores the relationship between the poetics of travel and ideas on action and political involvement. It examines the vertical axis, which represents the 'ideal' and allows the poet to rise above life and men, and the horizontal axis, which symbolizes action and gives the poet a point of exit from the 'idealising' axis. The poet travels vertically through voyages on hills and in the sky and meditates on the meaning of life before returning to earth towards the plains and men in order to carry out what he has learned. The voyage upwards equally represents the search for purity and purification, a necessary step for Senghor who attempts to establish his identity through association with an authentic Africa.
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N'zid de Malika Mokeddem ou la (re)-naissance d'un être féminin
More LessThis article is a literary analysis of Malika Mokeddem's last novel N'Zid. Characterised by a history woven around the identical collection, N'zid evokes Algeria's recent tragedy, and an awareness of the plural identity of the novelist. Many elements such as individuals, places and spaces contribute to the development of the memorial order by assuring the novelist not only of the construction but also the examination of her own space. For example, the sea is seen by the novelist as an ascent order in the memory and a dream, both as a movement of opening and revival. This place of freedom on which the protagonist Nora roams in search of absolute or of neglect, succeeds in transcending the pain of the separation with the original place, Algeria. This latter whose maternity is a deep tear is the one who grows to a total detachment. For Malika Mokeddem being in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea far from her soiled and bruised native land is felt as a revival – not as a death.
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History and cultural identity in Haitian literature
More LessAs the title of this article may allusively suggest, the history of Haitian literature is tied to the island's distinctive political status as the first Caribbean nation to gain its freedom from French colonial rule. According to historical accounts, it took more than thirteen years of militant resistance and tactical warfare to defeat Napoleon's expeditionary force and proclaim its national independence on 1 January 1804. Names of militant resisters like Makandal, Daniel Boukman, Toussaint L'Ouverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Henri Christophe are etched in the national collective consciousness and figure prominently in Haitian cultural expressions. Once the 'pearl of the French Antilles' to now the third poorest nation of the planet, Haiti continues to struggle for its freedom and its dignity. 1 January 2004 will mark Haiti's bicentennial and it appears befitting to revisit Haiti's past which fuelled and yielded a rich literary legacy. This article will focus more specifically on the wealth and breadth of literary writings and discourses that have shaped, influenced and enriched Caribbean narratives within a continuum of tradition and innovation.
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Revisiting Vietnam, locating home in Kim Lefevre's Retour à la saison des pluies
By Srilata RaviThe present study focuses on Kim Lefevre's sequel to Métisse Blanche (1989), Retour à la saison des pluies (1990). The text is centred around a diasporic migrant's 'travel project' to return to Vietnam. The sense of place as dwelling becomes an overpowering element in a narrative that renews the theme of continual geographical dislocations characterizing Kim Lefevre's childhood and adolescence in Vietnam. This paper explores the migrant writer's predicament of displacement/emplacement in terms of the complexities that weave together issues relating to gender, language, place and history. Retour à la saison des pluies, a self-consciously gendered narrative of return, demystifies the conventions that define 'home'. As a 'world author' writing in French, Kim Lefevre creates alternative paradigms that represent her geographical, linguistic and cultural displacements through creative and self-reflexive literary techniques.
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Amadou Hampâté Bâ: Un voyage à travers la tradition
Authors: Inmaculada Díaz Narbona and Cristina Boidard BoissonThe importance of tradition is fundamental in Amadou Hampâté Bâ's works. In his Memories, the prominent traditionalist Malian writer addresses questions of 'Tradition' in the African context. These questions are a rich journey into the history of the African continent during the twentieth century, from colonization to the Independences.
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