Éléments postmodernes dans l’œuvre romanesque de Calixthe Beyala Postmodern Elements in the Novels of Calixthe Beyala
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ABSTRACT: African literature is distinguished by the emergence of a new generation of female writers. These “rebellious women” brought about a real revolution in the 1980s by taking the story along new paths. It is the Franco-Cameroonian Calixthe Beyala who consecrates this rupture. His novels project the reader into worlds marked by anomie, chaos and excesses of all kinds. Moreover, on the formal level, the stories present themselves under new faces with the marked presence of linguistic earthiness, textual interferences and diegetic incoherence. The effect of recurrence of these thematic and narrative processes makes it possible to postulate the emergence of a postmodern novel. It will then be a question, in this contribution, of trying to distinguish in the novelistic production of Beyala from the formal tendencies, from the types of devices which come into relation with the postmodern writing
RÉSUMÉ : La littérature africaine se distingue par l’émergence d’une nouvelle génération d’écrivains féminins. Ces « femmes rebelles » ont opéré dans les années 1980 une véritable révolution en engageant le récit dans des voies nouvelles. C’est la franco-camerounaise Calixthe Beyala qui consacre cette rupture. Ses romans projettent, en effet, le lecteur dans des univers marqués par l’anomie, le chaos et les excès de toutes sortes. De plus, sur le plan formel, les récits se présentent sous de nouveaux visages avec la présence marquée de la truculence langagière, des interférences textuelles et de l’incohérence diégétique. L’effet de récurrence de ces procédés thématiques et narratifs permet de postuler l’émergence d’un roman postmoderne. Il s’agira alors, dans cette contribution, de chercher à distinguer dans la production romanesque de Beyala des tendances formelles, des types de dispositifs qui entrent en relation avec l’écriture postmoderne.
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