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Le récit d’enfance au prisme du génocide et de la violence extrême : le motif du retour vers la terre d’enfance chez Gaël Faye et Scholastique Mukasonga
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Lebel, A. |
| Copyright Year | 2018 |
| Abstract | Gael Faye’s first novel, Petit Pays, and Scholastique Mukasonga’s most autobiographical works, Inyenzi ou les Cafards and La femme aux pieds nus, share a common trait in that both are based on a metaphorical return to the main traumatic experience of their authors’ childhood: the Rwandan genocide and the ethnic violence which devastated the African Great Lakes region in the wake of colonisation. From this perspective, the two writers choose to relate the tale of their childhood in a narrative form more or less mediated through fiction. In these hybrid texts hovering between the novel, literary testimony and autobiography, the spectacle of mass violence is filtered through the prism of a child’s vision, afterwards re-interrogated by an adult narrator. Beyond the thematic echoes, it is thus the presence of a similar narrative structure which has attracted our attention. Indeed, in both writers’ works the childhood narrative is marked by a subtle polyphony, visible in both the diegesis and the superposition of the child’s and the adult narrator’s voices. This article will investigate the heuristic, political and ethical – perhaps even thaumaturgic – uses of this literary device. |
| Starting Page | 100 |
| Ending Page | 116 |
| Page Count | 17 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://revue-critique-de-fixxion-francaise-contemporaine.org/rcffc/article/download/fx17.11/1274 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
