Plurilinguisme et altérité dans les écritures

The scriptural practices of Sony Labou Tansi, Kossi Efoui, Koffi Kwahulé on the side of French-speaking Black Africa, or Frankétienne, Raphaël Confiant, Édouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau on the side of the West Indian writings, develop a strong linguistic heterogeneousness as well as a clashing p...

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Main Author: Christine Ramat
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Language:English
Published: Association Portugaise d'Etudes Françaises 2016-05-01
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/carnets/973
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description The scriptural practices of Sony Labou Tansi, Kossi Efoui, Koffi Kwahulé on the side of French-speaking Black Africa, or Frankétienne, Raphaël Confiant, Édouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau on the side of the West Indian writings, develop a strong linguistic heterogeneousness as well as a clashing polyphony which, pushed to the excess, border on the monstrous. This verbal hybridity takes support on the sociolinguistic context of diglossia specific to Africa, but exceeds it because the writers of the “migritude” intend to assume an esthetic positioning in connection with the reality of cross-cultural Africa. Beyond, they share the same fascination for the strangeness of the literary language and think of the literary invention as the fabrication of a language which carnavalises the world and shows its chaos. These forms of multilingualism give birth to what we could call “monstrous languages”; at the same time enormous languages exhibit eccentricities. What are the main lines of this “monstrous use” of language? How does it operate? To produce which effects and defend which po-ethical values?
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spelling doaj-art-2ccb86d13e6b4cf591858d2e19fb887e2025-08-20T02:34:25ZengAssociation Portugaise d'Etudes FrançaisesCarnets1646-76982016-05-01710.4000/carnets.973Plurilinguisme et altérité dans les écrituresChristine RamatThe scriptural practices of Sony Labou Tansi, Kossi Efoui, Koffi Kwahulé on the side of French-speaking Black Africa, or Frankétienne, Raphaël Confiant, Édouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau on the side of the West Indian writings, develop a strong linguistic heterogeneousness as well as a clashing polyphony which, pushed to the excess, border on the monstrous. This verbal hybridity takes support on the sociolinguistic context of diglossia specific to Africa, but exceeds it because the writers of the “migritude” intend to assume an esthetic positioning in connection with the reality of cross-cultural Africa. Beyond, they share the same fascination for the strangeness of the literary language and think of the literary invention as the fabrication of a language which carnavalises the world and shows its chaos. These forms of multilingualism give birth to what we could call “monstrous languages”; at the same time enormous languages exhibit eccentricities. What are the main lines of this “monstrous use” of language? How does it operate? To produce which effects and defend which po-ethical values?https://journals.openedition.org/carnets/973multilingualismhybriditygrotesquemonstrous and literaturefrancophony
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Plurilinguisme et altérité dans les écritures
Carnets
multilingualism
hybridity
grotesque
monstrous and literature
francophony
title Plurilinguisme et altérité dans les écritures
title_full Plurilinguisme et altérité dans les écritures
title_fullStr Plurilinguisme et altérité dans les écritures
title_full_unstemmed Plurilinguisme et altérité dans les écritures
title_short Plurilinguisme et altérité dans les écritures
title_sort plurilinguisme et alterite dans les ecritures
topic multilingualism
hybridity
grotesque
monstrous and literature
francophony
url https://journals.openedition.org/carnets/973
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