Le ventre dans l’écriture de Sony Labou Tansi et Tchicaya U Tam'si
Abstract
A French-speaking author is not a simple translator of his culture into French: his positioning of the writer in a language which is not his mother tongue, blurs the outline of translator’s craft. The article presents this particular dynamics using the semantic field of the belly, which is central in the literary production of Tchicaya U Tam’si and Sony Labou Tansi. Both authors devoted to this theme their homonymous writings: Le Ventre (The Belly, 1978) and Sa Majesté le ventre (His Majesty, the Belly, 1972).
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