De l’archive au roman, ou les enjeux d’une réécriture : Le Roi de Kahel de Tierno Monénembo
In Le Roi de Kahel (2008), Tierno Monénembo wrote about a marginal figure in the colonial conquest, someone hardly known in France but famous in Guinée, Aimé Victor Olivier de Sanderval. Monénembo received permission from Sanderval’s heirs to study the family archives and the explorer’s writings, hi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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TELEMME - UMR 6570
2014-09-01
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| Series: | Amnis |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/amnis/2231 |
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| Summary: | In Le Roi de Kahel (2008), Tierno Monénembo wrote about a marginal figure in the colonial conquest, someone hardly known in France but famous in Guinée, Aimé Victor Olivier de Sanderval. Monénembo received permission from Sanderval’s heirs to study the family archives and the explorer’s writings, his travel logs above all, were a direct source of inspiration for the novel. Monénembo, however, lays no claim to historical authenticity in his novel nor does he pretend to be faithful to his sources. A study of the intertextual relationships between the archives and the novel, and in particular the use of quotations, reveals the complex mechanisms that the writer puts into play in his “postcolonial rewrite”, weaving between fiction and reality in order to explore the colonial hypotext, and shed new light on underlying issues. |
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| ISSN: | 1764-7193 |