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Enunciation and denunciation of power in a few Black African novels of the post independence era

Abstract

The black African novel of denunciation which is called the subversive novel and which some insert in the category said to be the novel of rupture, as a macro act of language, does involve a subversive and illocutory aim. That is true even if the post independence black African literary discourse, like any discourse, remains under constraint, that is to say, determined to a large extent, by the socio-political context, but also, the literary field where various positionings and postures of authors are in competition. In this work, we endeavour to show that this aim which is an attempt to reveal the awkwardness of the new political and/or religions systems, a result of the relationship between a non verbal black African context and the internal side of novels and results in literary construction of various individual and collective ethos, can be studied through the discourse analysis method. By linking the external and inner side of the literary text, which moves aside the str ucturalist immanence. We tackle the post independence black African novel as a system of enunciation whose deistic and modal centre vouches for the discourse, that is to say the principal narrator who is the most often homodiectic in our corpus except Perpetue where he is extradiegetic. So, the thesis ruins the romantic conception which distinguishes the social self from the creative self. We hence consider that the novels of our corpus are social activities involved in discursive practices of a society, which definitely settles the relationship between a text and society raising the notions of the enunciation issue with a broad socio cultural scope like the scenography, the generic scene, the validated scene, the paratopy,… we hence confirm the possibility of a rupture in the black African literary approaches considering literary history made up of three separate different entries(Man, his work and the environment) which have remained more or less classical, that is to say thematic, often sociological. In resorting systematically to the linguistic tool of enunciation, of pragmatism, of textual linguistic, of the argument of interaction linguistic, … we apply to a few post independence black African novels and to several textual sequences which we have selected and drawn from that corpus, the discourse analysis method as theoretized in the European area by researchers such as Dominique Maingueneau and Patric Chareaudeau, but also others who have developed similar linguistic issues : Jean Michel Adam, Ruth Amossy, Emile Benveniste, Catherine Kerbrat-Orecchioni, Oswald Ducrot,… to name but a few. The study of polygamy to determine voices which are found in the novels lead us to the study, on the one hand, of the double enunciation which are turned out into dialogues as narrative modality where several enunciators are brought to the stage, on the other hand, of all the type of reported speeches, but also of the verbal manifestation of the black Af rican people. These voices define enunciative identities, those of opposed positions, namely the political and/or religions power and the opponents who are always in conflict in the novels. Rejecting authenticity which was always the aim of black African; identity conceptions like Negritude, the authors of the corpus use the reported speech and the double enunciation not to restore the plain reality, like the thesis novel, but denounce by telling, in bias, the standard reader, what to think or believe. The political and/or religions upheaval is disparaged by the presentation to the reader of discursive patrons and of a language code which are integrated into the interdiscourse and which show different popular or individual ethos functioning as a foil used for denunciation. The standard reader manages to produce the discursive effect connected to the texts through the incorporation activity of these ethos which are shown through some corporality and precise vocality.Keywords:Enunciation, polyphony, enunciation scene gender, dialogue, interaction, argument, posture, paratopy, ethos, discourse, text, context.

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