Le discours mémoriel comme lieu de résistance dans le théâtre négro-africain francophone postcolonial

Abstract

Negro-African postcolonial theater presents characters in conflict situations. This conflict takes place above all in dialogues. On the one hand, the colonizers impose an authoritarian discourse to establish their political domination over the African peoples, on the other, the latter oppose a discourse of resistance in order to express their refusal to any hegemonistic inclination. In this debate, the African characters rely permanently on the memory to give more persuasive force to their remarks. They summon history as an argument to demonstrate their resistance to colonial rule. The challenge of this present study is to discover the forms and meanings of the traces of the past in the speech of the characters.

Keywords

• Negro-African
• postcolonial
• theater
• conflict
• discourse
• history
• memory
• resistance
• colonisation.