Résultats de recherche

Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Prácticas discursivas en la escritura de mujer Observaciones sobre la narrativa española contemporánea

Magda Potok

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Discursive Practices in Women’s Writing. Observations on Contemporary Spanish Fiction

On the basis of contemporary Spanish women writers’ fiction we propose to investigate whether besides a series of specific themes there exist any “traits of femininity” inscribed in the literary discourse itself and what are their categories and characteristics. The category of gender is apparent in various aesthetic, narrative and formal examples such as psychological realism, firstperson narrative, fragmentarism, incoherent and disordered structures, or multi-perspectivism. Although it has assimilated some elements of the postmodern episteme and aesthetics such as the use of metanarrative references, the combination of different refined and popular literary genres or the technique of autofiction, the feminine discourse inclines towards narrative models deriving from the sentimental fiction, with its rhetoric of the extreme and exaggeration.

Key words: contemporary Spanish fiction, womens’ literature, discursive practice, gender studies, postmodern narrative.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Le pastiche comme jeu littéraire en contrepoint L’exemple d’André Schwarz-Bart et de Yambo Ouologuem

Buata B. Malela

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The objective of this article is to understand the practice of the literary play, starting with the example of André Schwarz-Bart in relation to Yambo Ouologuem. Strictly speaking, the direction of this play is analysed starting from the initial use of pastiche and parody in the literary context of the fifties and the sixties. This practice is also observable in Schwarz-Bart, since he evokes the figures related to the experience of violence and of relationships. The experiences enable both Schwarz-Bart and Ouologuem to reread collective historicity by the intermediary of romantic fiction, because they aim to incarnate anti-figurations by means of the discourse of the domination. They parody the speech to be mor distinct, owing to the fact that it draws aside the margins of its mental categories.


Key words: Pastiche, parody, literary play, Ouologuem, Schwarz-Bart, the literature of Shoah.



Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Discours littéraire et pensée féministe De Simone de Beauvoir à Simone Schwarz-Bart

Buata B. Malela

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Literary Discourse and Feminist Thought. From Simone de Beauvoir to Simone Schwarz-Bart

This article aims to rethink the social and literary trajectory of Simone Schwarz-Bart in the 1960s and 1970s in the francophone intellectual field. The paper discusses her views on gender relations, her relationship to the feminist movement and some of its prominent figures (e.g. Simone de Beauvoir and Monique Wittig). Finally, the impact of feminism on her literary production is analyzed.

Key words: francophone literature, black feminism, french literature, feminism, gender studies.




Revue: Romanica Silesiana

Kamouraska d’Anne Hébert et Une si longue lettre de Mariama Bâ Un même « discours » féministe ?

Mbaye Diouf

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Kamouraska by Anne Hébert and Une si longue lettre by Mariama Bâ. A Shared Feminist “Discourse”?

Exploring a research angle never yet investigated by literary critics, this text proposes a comparative analysis of novels by writers Anne Hébert, of Québec, and Mariama Bâ, of Senegal. The study joins a new research domain by integrating literatures of the “North” and those of the “South”. Relations between men and women constitute a major focus in the novels, suggesting a social interrogation shared by both authors, as well as a common preoccupation for the feminine condition. Novels such as Kamouraska and Une si longue lettre seem to rewrite Augustinian libidos only through a systematic denunciation of religious and patriarchal discourse that declasses feminine subjects in the two societies. Their narrative and enunciative dispositions therefore organise literary subjects who, although particular in the works of each author, express, in a solidary manner, another way of being, as well as a “gendered” point of view.


Key words: Anne Hébert, Mariama Bâ, novel, discourse, feminism, enunciation, Québec, Sénégal.

Kamouraska by Anne Hébert and Une si longue lettre by Mariama Bâ. A Shared Feminist “Discourse”?

Exploring a research angle never yet investigated by literary critics, this text proposes a comparative analysis of novels by writers Anne Hébert, of Québec, and Mariama Bâ, of Senegal. The study joins a new research domain by integrating literatures of the “North” and those of the “South”. Relations between men and women constitute a major focus in the novels, suggesting a social interrogation shared by both authors, as well as a common preoccupation for the feminine condition. Novels such as Kamouraska and Une si longue lettre seem to rewrite Augustinian libidos only through a systematic denunciation of religious and patriarchal discourse that declasses feminine subjects in the two societies. Their narrative and enunciative dispositions therefore organise literary subjects who, although particular in the works of each author, express, in a solidary manner, another way of being, as well as a “gendered” point of view.


Key words: Anne Hébert, Mariama Bâ, novel, discourse, feminism, enunciation, Québec, Sénégal.

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