The body writing and myth of the writer : Psychological critic analysis of Place des fêtes, Hermina and La fête des masques of Sami Tchak

• Main Author: Ndombi Loumbangoye, Ornella Pacelly
• Other Authors: Education et Diversité en Espaces Francophones (FRED), Institut Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société (IR SHS UNILIM), Université de Limoges (UNILIM)-Université de Limoges (UNILIM), Université de Limoges, Dominique Gay-Sylvestre
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: HAL CCSD 2016
• Subjects: Body; Personal myth; Hybridity; Corps; Mythe personnel; Hybridité; [SHS.LITT]Humanities and Social Sciences/Literature; sami
• Online Access: https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01261061; https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01261061/document; https://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-01261061/file/2016LIMO0001.pdf

In the heart of the aesthetic transformations of African literature of French expression, a special form of writing that breaks with the dull and linear narrative of the writers of the post-colonial period appears. Also, this new way of writing gives way to a new generation of francophone writers who offers readers a more raw, more sensual, more sexual literature. It is now intended to criticize social mores through the description of various characters from novels which are prey to the complexity of their intimate world. This new form of writing has enrolled us in a current literary trend that allows to introduce the universal character in the intimacy. In fact, the peculiarity of our thesis lies in its ability to lead the reader to perceive the link that may exist between the writing of the body and the quest for identity in contemporary literature of francophone Africa. This would be possible through the analysis of psychological critics of some literary works such as those of the Franco-Togolese writer Sami TCHAK. This research leads the reader to wonder how the writing of the body, through that of sexuality, can convey a literary discourse capable of allowing the writer to have a better understanding of himself. This aesthetic choice of transgression seems to actually be a pretext for the stylistic reconfiguration of contemporary African literature thanks to this new generation of writers. Au cœur des métamorphoses esthétiques de la littérature africaine d’expression française, il apparaît une forme particulière d’écriture qui rompt avec le récit terne et linéaire des écrivains de la période post-coloniale. Aussi, cette nouvelle manière d’écrire donne naissance à une nouvelle génération d’écrivains francophones qui proposent aux lecteurs une littérature plus crue, plus sensuelle voire plus sexuelle. Celle-ci se donne désormais pour objectif de critiquer les mœurs sociales à travers la description de divers personnages de romans en proie à la complexité de leur monde intime. Cette nouvelle conception ...