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Auteur(s):
N'DRI Koffi Samuel.
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QUEST FOR AN AFRICAN IDENTITY IN BUCHI EMECHETA’S THE NEW TRIBE
Résumé
Slavery and colonisation have entailed horrible consequences for Africans. Thus, some
of them were forced to leave their homelands to Europe and America. The sequel to this separation
from their homes is the loss of their former identity; due to a difficult adoption of the new culture
once in the host countries. Unable to adapt to a culture which most the time they do not understand,
some of them do not hesitate to search for their original African identity. Emecheta’s fiction, The
New Tribe deals with a Nigerian young boy’s quest for this African identity in a white community
where he seems to be lost because of his skin colour. Using the postcolonial criticism as a
theoretical tool for the research, we will examine the concepts of deracination, hybridity, racism to
head for the concept of afropolitanism as it is perceived in Emechet’s novel.
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Auteur(s):
Affoua Evelyne DORÉ.
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POST-MIGRATION BRITISH LITERATURE: AN ANALYSIS OF SPACE AND HYBRIDITY IN HANIF KUREISHI’S THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA (1990)
Résumé
Black British literature is the space of representation of the migratory flow. It analyses the effect
of emigration on literary productions. The present study is an investigation on the second
generation of writers with the case of Hanif Kureishi, a writer from the Indian diaspora born in
the United Kingdom, who portrays the conditions of Indian immigrants in England. It seeks to
scrutinize The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) and takes as a starting two different axes based on
the works of Homi Bhabha and John Searle. Consequently, Bhabha’s notion of hybridity serves
as a theoretical tool to reveal Kureishi’s strategy to minimize the border between the native and
the host culture and to resolve diasporic difficulties. John Searle’s illocutionary acts are also
used to analyze the discourse of the hybrid characters as well as the impact of space in the
creation of a new identity.
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Auteur(s):
Koffi Noël BRINDOU.
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THE AFRICAN WOMEN IN THE ELSEWHERE: AN AFROPOLITAN ANALYSIS OF DARKO’S BEYOND THE HORIZON AND WALKER’S POSSESSING THE SECRET OF JOY
Résumé
Globalization catalyses the proliferation of transnational literature across
disciplines and the contemporary African and African-American novels are no exception. They
develop Afropolitan topics in which emerge new kinds of migrating populations composed of
people whose patterns of life encompass both their host and home societies. Their lives cut
across national boundaries and bring several societies into a single social field. The article
analyses two transnational novels: Beyond the Horizon (1991) written by the Ghanaian novelist
Amma Darko, and Possessing the Secret of Joy (2009) written by the African-American
novelist Alice Walker. It argues that the African migrant women in the elsewhere (African and
African-American novels) overcome oppressions to become Afropolitans. Comparing the two
novels through the lens of Afropolitan theory, the article finds out that from being multiple
oppressed subjects, the African migrant women find homeliness in the host countries.
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Auteur(s):
Nahiri Jean Charles NAHIRI.
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INTRACONTINENTAL MIGRATION AND THE AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: A STUDY OF NOVIOLET BULAWAYO’S WE NEED NEW NAMES
Résumé
This paper intends to demonstrate the way movements across national borders within
Africa foster the development of the continent. It explores NoViolet Bulawayo’s debut novel
We Need New Names and brings out how the author has imagined such development capacity
in the construction of the narrative. The novel, mainly, tells about Africans’ immigration
towards western worlds, such as the United States of America and Britain. However, in the
process of telling the events, the narrator subtly gives indications pertaining to African
intracontinental migration. In this regard, this paper considers characters’ cross-border
movements within Africa and uses them as a means of development. This analysis will be
achieved based on the theory of narratology. Actually, it lays emphasis on characters, spaces
and events to relate migration and continental development.
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Auteur(s):
Kossia Eunice ADOU.
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FROM VIRTUAL MIGRATION TO GLOBALIZATION: THE PRESENCE OF THE ELSEWHERE IN THE HERE IN CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE’S THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK AND AMERICANAH.
Résumé
This study analyses the issue of the connection between virtual migration and
globalization in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s literary works, namely The Thing Around Your
Neck (2009) and Americanah (2013). Focused on postocolonial theoretical approach, precisely on
Bill Ashcroft and his peers’ conception on globalism, it demonstrates that virtual migration leads
African people to globalization. In this vein, that current phenomenon is used as a gun by the excolonised
to
break-down
the
barriers
between
their
peripheral
position
and
the coloniser’s
central
position.
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Auteur(s):
Youssouf FOFANA.
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NARRATING THE MULTIFORM IDENTITY: MIGRATION AND COSMOPOLITANISM IN HELON HABILA’S TRAVELLERS
Résumé
This article explores the growing phenomenon of migration of people from former colonies to
European countries. The tremendous economic and technological development, in addition to
the projected western humanism and generosity constitute the main drives of this massive influx
of migrants into Europe. The study is based on Helon Habila’s Travellers (2019), which appears
as a postcolonial text that fictionalizes the stories of some Black and Arab migrants who
succeed to cross the European borders. In this novel of the category of migrant literature, the
narrative puts side by side the migrants’ sad experiences and the supposed humanism promoted
through the European concept of cosmopolitanism. In so doing, the author tackles the questions
of identity and aspects of racism in the migration policy and practices of European countries.
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Auteur(s):
Ténéna Mamadou SILUE.
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BREXIT AND THE DIALECTIC OF THE EUROPEAN SPACE AND IDENTITY IN ANDREW MARR’S HEAD OF STATE
Résumé
This paper examines the crisis of a common European identity in Andrew Marr’s novel,
Head of State. Drawing on Karl Marx’s belief that life is materialistic; the article explores how
Britain’s socio-economic crisis triggers the Britons’ animosity toward a common European
socio-political identity. Brexit referendum emerged at a moment of economic recession leading
to socio-political tensions between the Europhiles and the Eurosceptics in Britain and the
European countries. In considering these, the article analyses Marr’s fiction as it echoes British
social and political struggles within the European Union project. Specifically, the paper
explores how the socio-economic deterioration of the country perpetuates a rejection of a
common European political space. This allows for a more materialistic reading of
contradictions inside the British state-territory to sort out Brexit vote as dialectical struggles
between opposing political economic forces in Marr’s fiction.
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Auteur(s):
N’Dri Denis N’GORAN.
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FOSTER CHILDREN’S IDENTITY ISSUE IN THE CONTEXT OF IMMIGRATION: A CASE STUDY OF THE NEW TRIBE BY BUCHI EMECHETA
Résumé
This paper analyses a protagonist’s life whose membership inside his family seems to call in
question his genuine identity for he is a foster child. This one is stigmatised because of his skin
colour and hardly achieves to blossom within society. The goal is to depict the identity crisis
experienced by him, how that identity crisis impacted his familial and social integration, and
finally how immigration imposed itself to this afro-English boy as solution to clear away all
doubts about his personality. With Postcolonial criticism, a deep analysis of foster children’s
identity issue in the context of immigration is achieved through the concepts of Adopt, Adapt,
and Adept to examine hybridity and cultural polyvalency of the protagonist. Immigration
provided a mixed outcome and led to realize the acceptance of the protagonist current identity
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Auteur(s):
Jean-Baptiste Ouakpéléfolo YEO.
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BLURRING IDENTITY AND BOUNDARY: CASE STUDY OF JAMES WELCH’S WINTER IN THE BLOOD
Résumé
This article explores identity and boundary issues in Native American works of fiction.
It focusses on James Phillip Welch’s Winter in the Blood analyzing the central character’s
shuffling between Native Americans’ and Whites’ cultures. By means of a postmodern analysis,
this article highlights the notions of identity and boundary acquisition, showing on the one hand
traditional or cultural identity, and on the other hand, the process of blurring lines between
human beings. It comes to the conclusions that boundaries are blurred by means of physical and
mental journeys, spirituality and humanism. It also concludes that identity is mutative.
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Auteur(s):
Zana Adama SILUE.
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HE PROCESS OF IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION: A STUDY OF BARACK OBAMA’S DREAM FROM MY FATHER
Résumé
No abstract
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Auteur(s):
Kpantioron Abel KONÉ.
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RE-VISUALIZING FEMALE IDENTITIES IN AFRICAN AND WESTERN SPACES IN DARKO’S BEYOND THE HORIZON AND UNIGWE’S ON BLACK SISTERS’ STREET
Résumé
The current paper re-visualizes female identities in African and western spaces
in Darko’s Beyond the Horizon and Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street. It explores African
women’s lives in Africa and in the West. The objective of this study is to determine that African
women’s identity is impacted by some migratory experiences like sexuality. This article is
theoretically framed by Postcolonial Feminism. The use of this theory helps conclude that in
addition to race and gender, sexuality is revealed in the two novels understudy as symbol of the
identity of African female immigrants. The work is subdivided into two sections: the first one
sheds light on women’s identity in traditional Africa; afterwards, women’s identity is analyzed
from their sexual experiences in the West.
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Auteur(s):
Donafani Siaka KONÉ.
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COLONIALISM AND BLASPHEMED RACIALIZATION IN JOHN MAXWELL COETZEE’S WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS
Résumé
This research investigates the postcolonial concept of colonialism and blasphemed
racialization in Waiting for the Barbarians by John Maxwell Coetzee. It analyzes the fractured
relation between Blacks and Whites during colonization. In fact, colonial era has favored the
domination of Whites over Blacks resulting in the blasphemy of Africans’ race and culture.
Coetzee intends to demonstrate that colonialism with its discourse and heritage has settled a
clear distinction between both races. In so doing, this situation has occasioned Blacks’
misrepresentation in both their culture and race at the profit of Whites. Standing on postcolonial
theory, the study reaches the point that John Maxwell Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians is
a narrative of colonialism and blasphemed racialization.
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Auteur(s):
Bassamanan TOURE.
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MIGRATION AND IDENTITY (RE)CONSTRUCTION: THE SHAPING OF IDENTITY IN ERNEST J. GAINES’ CATHERINE CARMIER
Résumé
Grounded on deconstruction, this paper stresses on the changes in migrants’ identity. It assesses
the ambivalent impacts of migration on identity (re)formation in Catherine Carmier. For a
community that considers migration as a quest for education and employment to improve its
life conditions in the plantation, migration may have non expected effects on the identity of
characters. They encompass emotional detachment, acculturation, the loss of faith and identity
crisis. These facets of the migrant identity set a mood of tensions within the black community.
However, migration may foster appraisive identity features. The migrant self-assertiveness
informs the way he perceives himself. Migration instills progressive traits on the individual’s
identity through interracial love transgression, political commitment, critical awareness, and
empowerment. Identity (re)construction often fosters interracial tensions between black and
creole people.
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Auteur(s):
COULIBALY Ibrahima.
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MEDIAS AND THE IMMIGRANT’S CULTURAL METAPHORSIS IN NOVIOLET BULAWAYO’S WE NEED NEW NAMES
Résumé
The objective of this study is to highlight the process of cultural alienation of the
migrants’ subjects through Medias in Bulawayo’s We Need New Names. Indeed, like other
immigrants’ characters, the protagonist Darling is culturally upset when she arrives in the
host society and discovers other values different from those of her home country. In the
process of her interaction with Western culture, a “third culture” (Bhabha, 1994) emerges,
one that gradually leads to her deculturation. Noticeably, the novel shows that the main factor
of the immigrant’s cultural mutation is connected to the Medias that play the role of cultural
metamorphosis.
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Auteur(s):
Alfred KIEMA, David BAZIE.
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THE REPRESENTATION OF PANA-AFRICANISM IN CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE’S PURPLE HIBISCUS AND CHIKA UNIGWE’S NIGHT DANCER
Résumé
One of the most recurrent concerns of African writers is the identity crisis brought about by
colonial education and the political system implemented through African administrations and
institutions. African novelists use their literary works to decry the wrongs that impede the
development of their postcolonial societies. They, actually, use their novels as bullets to fight
against colonial ill-doings in order to restore African identity. In this respect, this study
essentially focuses on both Nigerian Chika Unigwe’s Night Dancer and Chimamanda Ngozi
Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus to highlight how the selected authors value African cultures. The
theory for implementing this research is the Afrocentric approach which stands as an important
scanner to analyze the selected works. As objectives, the critical study will discuss African
traditional religion and also analyze African celebrations. In sum, this research paper points out
how the identity crisis has been engendered by colonization.
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Auteur(s):
Amidou KONE.
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RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE AND IMPEDIMENT: A SURVEY OF ACHEBE’S TRILOGLY
Résumé
religion is not a gift from our parents but a legacy to our children. As such it must
be preserved and be transmitted duly from a generation to another. Unfortunately, religion is
being deprived from its legendary values structured around dialogue, peace, love and tolerance.
Our paper is a try to highlight religious dialogue and its impediment through the Trilogy by
Chinua Achebe by focusing on the one hand, on major illustrations of religious dialogue; by
underlining on the other hand, some obstacles to this very religious dialogue due to many socio
religious-bound factors and aspects.
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Auteur(s):
Koffi Asaph Sophonie KOFFI.
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RETHINKING AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS’ IDENTITY: AFROPOLITANISM IN TEJU COLE’S OPEN CITY AND TAIYE SELASI’S GHANA MUST GO
Résumé
The representation of the postcolonial African identity has always been the concern of African creative
writers and scholars. For decades, Afro-pessimism and postcolonial Manicheanism have been paradigms
that prevail in the African literary landscape. This paper seeks to delineate how Afropolitanism attempts
to optimistically rethink the African identity outside crises. Postcolonial theory lays the contextual
grounds for this analysis with Selasi's “Bye-Bye Babar” (2005) and Mbembe’s “Afropolitanism” (2007).
The study of Cole’s and Selasi’s novels first unveils that the cosmopolitan status of Africans is partly
due to their search for home as they peregrinate elsewhere to escape the postcolony in their country of
origin. Second, the Afropolitans are identified with multiple identities and also multilingual as they are
culturally and linguistically hybrids. The paper finally claims that Afropolitanism remains paradoxical
for, it reinforces Eurocentrism and lacks political engagement to fight Neo-colonialism for the true
liberation of Africa.
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Auteur(s):
Lankan Mathieu KONE.
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A SOCIOLINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH CHOICE AS SECOND MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION IN CÔTE D’IVOIRE
Résumé
urrently in the world, English is known as the global language with a valuable
linguistic asset that has seriously contributed to a country like China’s socio-economic
development. The main purpose of this paper is to conduct a sociolinguistic investigation to
show that English use as second medium of instruction in Côte d’Ivoire can be socioeconomically
advantageous
for
this
multilingual
French-speaking
country.
In the
trends of
this
analysis,
our
focus
will
be
based
on
language
policy
and
economics
of
language
theories.
From
the
results
of
this
study,
we
retain
that
even
if
some
scholars
and
linguists
do
not
perceive
such
a
language
policy
implementation
as
useful
in
this
country,
English
language
use
as second
medium of instruction appears as a relevant linguistic asset that can allow this country to benefit
from important advantages at diplomatic, educational and economic levels.
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Auteur(s):
Koffi Malthus KOUASSI.
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ADVERTISING AND IDENTITY RE-CONSTRUCTION: THE CASE OF JUMIA AND DREAM COSMETIC
Résumé
This research paper investigates the extent to which advertisement contributes to the
process of identity re-construction. It explores ideological features in advertising slogans and their
effects on consumers. The analysis focuses on lexical and syntactic choices in advertising taglines
to sort out the linguistic clues that influence and shape the identity of audience. Using the theory
of pragmatic to explore the type of language used in order to establish the interaction between
discourse, ideologies and identity reconstruction, the study reveals that the messages in these
advertisements do not only describe products, but also convey certain ideologies in order to shape
or re-construct consumers’ identities. Referring to a pragmatic analysis, this work shows that the
contextual use of some syntactic structures, words and visuals in advertisements re-construct some
identity features of consumers.
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Auteur(s):
Sita TUO.
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IDENTITY BORDERS OF LOCUTIONARY ACTS AND ACTIONS in THE VANISHING HALF by BRIT BENNETT
Résumé
Living in the elsewhere looks like being lock in a place, and it conveys ethnic, social, cultural,
racial, national, political, regional, and linguistic identities to those persons. The study of
migrants’ identities is a very vast field. Despite the progress of scientific researches on that
issue, the topic can be tackled in the sense of migrants’ identities inside the different borders
today. But, migrants’ living conditions in borders can actually favor the use of Language to
express or deny some identities. Similarly, the selected locutionary acts in ‘The Vanishing Half’,
bluntly shows utterances acts denying or affirming migrants’ identities. This analysis is done in
the lens of speech act theory. Therefore, the present work aims at showing throughout tangible
facts, the performatives actions that influence migrants’ life as well as their identities in the
novel. The language is used by characters in such way that it fits with their identities in the context of
frontiers. These elements are so closely interwoven that words are inscribed with ideological meanings
in emigrants’ mind.
