Revue Hybrides (Dec 2023)
L’esthétique de la laideur dans La danse du vilain de Fiston Mwanza Mujila
Abstract
French speaking contemporary African Novel in the writing field portrays a defenestrated African society, with an appalling daily life, conducive to a defeatist universe which describes many consequences of the hubris of the characters, aspiring to be what they are not. This situation creates a dichotomous relationship. From observation, the African novel as illustrated in La danse du vilain, whose writing is a verbalized exorcization of suffering in a society losing its bearings, is a relevant testimony of a hallucinated world, in dire straits. This is why the use of unbridled, fragmented, terrorist writing, a bestialized language, the depths, presenting a fallen world incapable of promoting a better world whose hope goes beyond simple catharsis, is the devitalization of the human. It is the writing of the sublimation of all the anxieties of the human condition of the African. The article shed light on the chaos in which contemporary African society is immersed and highlights the constant interaction between African culture and modernity to curb the violence and morbid state of African society. The aesthetics of ugliness that F. Mwanza Mujila abhors in his novel relays, through the prism of sociocriticism, the reproduced sociality as well as the reasons underlying human madness, allowing us to identify and understand the reasons of this language surge.
