La question du roman en littérature africaine d’expression française. Une lecture de l’œuvre romanesque d’Émile Gankama

Abstract

In this study, we aim not only to place the work of Émile GANKAMA within the African literature of French expression, but also (and above all) to show that it makes a harmonious synthesis of various literary currents in the African Francophone literature. This study also aims to highlight the effervescence of this literature over time, that is, since its launch by the Negritude literary movement in the 1930s until the engaging or universalist literature nowadays. Such a study is of particular interest due to the rich vocabulary of the French language and to the great skill in using this foreign language adopted as a vernacular and a language of learning in most of the countries in Central Africa.

Keywords

• novel
• literature
• literary current
• vernacular
• language of learning