Journal | Il Tolomeo
Journal issue | 25 | 2023
Research Article | Reconfiguration culturelle de la mémoire de l'esclavage et de la traite dans les romans de Léonora Miano, Wilfried N'Sondé et David Diop

Reconfiguration culturelle de la mémoire de l'esclavage et de la traite dans les romans de Léonora Miano, Wilfried N'Sondé et David Diop

Abstract

Slavery and the slave trade are widespread themes in Caribbean literature, but for a long time they were virtually absent from French-speaking sub-Saharan African literature. In recent years, however, Afropean authors have made it a major theme. Léonora Miano’s La Saison de l’ombre (2013), Wilfried N’Sondé’s Un Océan, deux mers, trois continents (2018) and David Diop’s La Porte du voyage sans retour (2021) offer what Achille Mbembe, in Sortir de la grande nuit (2010), refers to as a “cultural reconfiguration”, specific to “the age of dispersion and circulation”.


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Submitted: July 1, 2023 | Accepted: Oct. 4, 2023 | Published Dec. 18, 2023 | Language: fr

Keywords Achille Mbembé • Afropean francophone literature • Agentivity • Cultural configurations • Wilfried N’Sondé • Archive • Slave trade • Memorial turn • Léonora Miano • David Diop

Copyright © 2023 Véronique Porra. 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/2499-5975/2023/01/010


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