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Journal | Il Tolomeo
Journal issue | 20 | 2018
Research Article | Pudeur et splendeur de la prostitution chez Aimé Césaire et Zadi Zaourou

Pudeur et splendeur de la prostitution chez Aimé Césaire et Zadi Zaourou

Représentations stylistiques du corps-tabou

Abstract

In the Cahier d’un retour au pays natal, Césaire depicts prostitution in its abject and reprehensible dimension. Many stylistic processes, such as the reference to the biblical account of the fall, thus define a servile and shameful practice. The reason is that the poet subtly encodes the vice of the sex trade that he makes the equivalent of cultural assimilation. In contrast, Zadi Zaourou Bernard, Ivorian poet and disciple of Césaire, generally depicted prostitution under the aegis of admiration. Elegy for those bodies offered to the libidinal satisfaction of whoever is able to pay the price, some poems from his collection titled À Califourchon sur le dos d’un nuage raise and sublimate the prostitute.


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Submitted: Aug. 11, 2018 | Accepted: Sept. 16, 2018 | Published Dec. 21, 2018 | Language: fr

Keywords Rhetoric figure • Poetry • Styleme • Stylistics • Figure of the prostitute

Copyright © 2018 Houessou Dorgelès. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2018/04/008


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