Bilingues délibérément francophones

Abstract

Three Tunisian poets of French expression (Garmadi, Kacem and Bekri) were originally teachers of Arabic. They chose to write in French and the style of their texts bears the influence of their mother tongue. Our work proposes to show that a single rhetoric is not enough to read this poetry of French expression where – much more than elsewhere – the proximity between otherness and identity can be read.

Keywords

• Francophone poetry
• mother tongue
• Arabic
• rhetoric