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Entre le père biologique et le père spirituel : le choix de la rupture chez les personnages de Boubacar Boris Diop

Serigne Seye

Abstract

This article is aimed at analyzing the break between fathers and their children in the texts of Boubacar Boris Diop, in which another figure often replaces that of the biological parent. Participating in the identity construction of his foster son, the spiritual father grants him memory which is contradictory to the official history. This clash, omnipresent in Boubacar Boris Diop’s novels, testifies of a change of paradigm revealing a deep crisis of the father figure in African postcolonial societies. We are indeed very far from the mythicized image of the pater nobilis which used to be omnipresent in African literature.

Citation rules

Seye, S. Entre le père biologique et le père spirituel : le choix de la rupture chez les personnages de Boubacar Boris Diop. Romanica Silesiana, 12(1). Retrieved from https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/RS/article/view/7161

Vol. 12 (2017)
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ISSN: 1898-2433
eISSN: 2353-9887

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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