L’oubli volontaire et la réminiscence involontaire dans la perspective des littératures subsahariennes d’expression française

Abstract

Today, it is perfectly possible to establish a corpus of sub-Saharan francophone authors of autobiographical novels who are already considered to be the classics of African literatures. The main characters, young Africans fascinated by French culture, suffer from identity alienation and spiritual degradation which causes a process of decomposition followed by an artificial re-composition of their past. The homeland, Africa, as a point of reference, is lost in this process. The protagonist isolates himself from his milieu and it is no more possible to distinguish whether he ignores or refuses his past in homeland. In this article, we will analyze the involuntary reminiscences occurring when the main character is in Paris. Those fragments of memory force him to reconsider his status, origins and allegiance.

Keywords

• francophone literatures
• sub-saharan novel
• camara laye
• aké loba
• cheikh hamidou kane