Where Prolixity is Art: Understanding the Francophone African Novels of Ahmadou Kourouma
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Resumo: | Understanding the fiction of the West African Ivorian writer, Ahmadou Kourouma has remained a challenge to critics primarily due to his powerful use of African rhythm, register and lexicon to create a new French through Malinke, his mother tongue. Although language is central to the understanding of Francophone literature, the classical approach has consisted in narrowly focusing on language from a linguistic point of view. Arguing that literary criticism limited to the isolated meditation on textual or contextual parameters ignores the creative dimension of art in the novel, this paper attempts to adopt Bakhtin's poetics of the dialogical to Kourouma's novel, Allah is Not Obliged, to understand the living principle (of dialogic threads) that animates and binds the entire work. |
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Where Prolixity is Art: Understanding the Francophone African Novels of Ahmadou KouroumaQuando prolixidade é arte: entendendo os romances francófonos africanos de Ahmadou KouroumaDialogismProlixityHidden PolemicPostcolonialDialogismoProlixidadePolêmica veladaPós-colonialUnderstanding the fiction of the West African Ivorian writer, Ahmadou Kourouma has remained a challenge to critics primarily due to his powerful use of African rhythm, register and lexicon to create a new French through Malinke, his mother tongue. Although language is central to the understanding of Francophone literature, the classical approach has consisted in narrowly focusing on language from a linguistic point of view. Arguing that literary criticism limited to the isolated meditation on textual or contextual parameters ignores the creative dimension of art in the novel, this paper attempts to adopt Bakhtin's poetics of the dialogical to Kourouma's novel, Allah is Not Obliged, to understand the living principle (of dialogic threads) that animates and binds the entire work. A ficção de Ahmadou Kourouma, escritor africano da Costa do Marfim, tem constituído um desafio para os críticos, sobretudo pelo intenso uso do registro, do léxico e do ritmo africanos com o escopo de criar um novo idioma francês através do malinkê, língua materna do autor. Embora a linguagem seja central para o entendimento da literatura francófona, a abordagem crítica tradicional tem dado pouca ênfase a esses romances de um ponto de vista linguístico. Propondo que a crítica literária limitada à reflexão isolada de parâmetros contextuais ou textuais ignora a dimensão criativa da arte no romance, este trabalho busca adotar a poética do dialogismo de Bakhtin na leitura do romance Alá e as crianças-soldados, de Kourouma, para compreender o princípio (de linha dialógica) que anima e articula todo o trabalho.Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo2015-04-30info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttps://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/bakhtiniana/article/view/20904Bakhtiniana. Revista de Estudos do Discurso ; Vol. 10 No. 1 (2015); Port. 5-27 / Eng. 5-25Bakhtiniana. Revista de Estudos do Discurso; Vol. 10 Núm. 1 (2015); Port. 5-27 / Eng. 5-25Bakhtiniana. Revista de Estudos do Discurso; Vol. 10 No. 1 (2015); Port. 5-27 / Eng. 5-25Bakhtiniana. Revista de Estudos do Discurso; v. 10 n. 1 (2015); Port. 5-27 / Eng. 5-25Бахтиниана: Журнал дискурсивных исследований; Том 10 № 1 (2015); Port. 5-27 / Eng. 5-252176-4573reponame:Bakhtinianainstname:Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)instacron:PUC_SPporenghttps://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/bakhtiniana/article/view/20904/16660https://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/bakhtiniana/article/view/20904/16661Adhikari, Foara Das Guptainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess2016-11-06T16:07:57Zoai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/20904Revistahttps://revistas.pucsp.br/index.php/bakhtiniana/indexPRIhttps://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.php||bakhtinianarevista@gmail.com2176-45732176-4573opendoar:2016-11-06T16:07:57Bakhtiniana - Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP)false |
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Where Prolixity is Art: Understanding the Francophone African Novels of Ahmadou Kourouma Quando prolixidade é arte: entendendo os romances francófonos africanos de Ahmadou Kourouma |
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Where Prolixity is Art: Understanding the Francophone African Novels of Ahmadou Kourouma |
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Where Prolixity is Art: Understanding the Francophone African Novels of Ahmadou Kourouma Adhikari, Foara Das Gupta Dialogism Prolixity Hidden Polemic Postcolonial Dialogismo Prolixidade Polêmica velada Pós-colonial |
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Where Prolixity is Art: Understanding the Francophone African Novels of Ahmadou Kourouma |
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Where Prolixity is Art: Understanding the Francophone African Novels of Ahmadou Kourouma |
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Where Prolixity is Art: Understanding the Francophone African Novels of Ahmadou Kourouma |
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Where Prolixity is Art: Understanding the Francophone African Novels of Ahmadou Kourouma |
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Where Prolixity is Art: Understanding the Francophone African Novels of Ahmadou Kourouma |
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Adhikari, Foara Das Gupta |
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Adhikari, Foara Das Gupta |
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Adhikari, Foara Das Gupta |
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Dialogism Prolixity Hidden Polemic Postcolonial Dialogismo Prolixidade Polêmica velada Pós-colonial |
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Dialogism Prolixity Hidden Polemic Postcolonial Dialogismo Prolixidade Polêmica velada Pós-colonial |
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Understanding the fiction of the West African Ivorian writer, Ahmadou Kourouma has remained a challenge to critics primarily due to his powerful use of African rhythm, register and lexicon to create a new French through Malinke, his mother tongue. Although language is central to the understanding of Francophone literature, the classical approach has consisted in narrowly focusing on language from a linguistic point of view. Arguing that literary criticism limited to the isolated meditation on textual or contextual parameters ignores the creative dimension of art in the novel, this paper attempts to adopt Bakhtin's poetics of the dialogical to Kourouma's novel, Allah is Not Obliged, to understand the living principle (of dialogic threads) that animates and binds the entire work. |
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