La poésie du métissage et du rapprochement comme arme contre la politique de l’exclusion : Georges Henein et Jean Sénac

Abstract

Georges Henein and Jean Sénac are two committed poets who establish a link between East and West. Their specificity is that they lived in muslim countries, Egypt and Algeria, and they tried to take part in their people’s emancipation during the 20th century. They denounced the confiscation of power and the corruption of the anti-colonial fight using only two weapons : poetry and the French language. At the same time, they have encouraged tighter relations between the two sides of the Mediterranean. Their very peculiar situation, being related to several cultures and several territories, explains why they can be regarded as forerunners of modern identities placed under the sign of cultural hybridation.

Keywords

• political commitment
• emancipation of peoples
• decolonisation
• identity
• hybridation