Procès fictionnels et imaginaires périphériques : la série Gomorra dans la réception active des rappeurs français

Abstract

Creating a serial and narrative universe, producing and broadcasting informative and creative contents in a changing media environment is part of a fictional process where composition of narrative, symbolic, iconic, audiovisual, biographical, and critical elements lead to more or less achieved narrative and discursive synthesis. We shall focus on French rappers' reception of the television series Gomorra (2014), on their appropriation of the cultural symbols and stereotypes of the Mob and on their “contrasting deciphering” of the serial text. We shall also show that these particular enunciations, develop peripheral imaginaries, inside and below mainstream culture, that can inhibit achieving meaning. Media and enunciative fragmentation of rappers’ discourses, metaleptic shifts between different levels of narration and temporality, produce open micro synthesis that could contest not only meaning and narrative closure, but also mimetic normalization of social behaviors.

Keywords

• Gomorra
• fictional process
• peripheral imagination
• French rappers
• narrative micro synthesis