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10.7202/009012ar

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10.7202/009012ar

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From Africa to transculturality:. Elements of a depoliticised literary criticism of the novel

Abstract

This study proposes to reevaluate African criticism by emphasizing the relationship between the role enjoyed by the novel in opening up literary genres and the basic principle of literary writing. After having defined the notion of transcultural and transgeneric esthetics advocated by the great African novelists, I will show how this notion shapes the meaning of some novels. I will try to demonstrate how African criticism is characterized by the ideological thinking of africanity and europeanity and then describe how some African novelists abolish the borders that criticism usually erects between African texts and those of other areas in the world. My hypothesis is that, because African novels are polyphonic, like many others produced throughout the world, it seems more accurate to approach these texts by placing them in the more general context of the beginning of this third millennium, which is characterized by transcultural and transgeneric writing.

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