[ Les caractères antipathiques des rues camerounaises dans les romans « Le Cri muet » de Guillaume Nana et « Petit Jo, enfant des rues » d’Evelyne Mpoudi Ngollé ]
Volume 33, Issue 2, July 2021, Pages 337–343
Pascal Graobé1
1 Doctorant à l’Université de Ngaoundéré, Cameroon
Original language: French
Copyright © 2021 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Literary imagination is based on space which served as support. Since then, literary space is an indissociable element of other literary elements. The space, according to the fact that it's private or public, reveals itself as the focal point of social interactions. Considering public space in novels, the street appears like a place where several characters of different rank and social class meet themselves. This article proposes the analysis of Cameroonian social streets representation in two novels, namely « Le Cri muet » of Guillaume Nana and « Petit Jo, enfant des rues » of Evelyne Mpoudi Ngollé. It broaches the social image problem of streets in relation to vulnerable persons, particularly street children. The fundamental question to which our analysis tries to respond is: what are the unsympathetic characters of street in contemporary Cameroonian’s novels? It is to demonstrate how the novel writers cited above reproduce, and contradict the social representation of streets in their respective novels. To resolve this problem statement, we convene the socio-poetic approach of Alain Montandon who analyses the manner in which representations and social imaginaries informs the text in its writing. It results from this social apprehension of streets representations in Cameroonian novel that the latter are places where socio-pathies occur. So, they participate to the exclusion of streets children.
Author Keywords: Characters, Unsympathetic, Streets, Adolescents, Novel.
Volume 33, Issue 2, July 2021, Pages 337–343
Pascal Graobé1
1 Doctorant à l’Université de Ngaoundéré, Cameroon
Original language: French
Copyright © 2021 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Literary imagination is based on space which served as support. Since then, literary space is an indissociable element of other literary elements. The space, according to the fact that it's private or public, reveals itself as the focal point of social interactions. Considering public space in novels, the street appears like a place where several characters of different rank and social class meet themselves. This article proposes the analysis of Cameroonian social streets representation in two novels, namely « Le Cri muet » of Guillaume Nana and « Petit Jo, enfant des rues » of Evelyne Mpoudi Ngollé. It broaches the social image problem of streets in relation to vulnerable persons, particularly street children. The fundamental question to which our analysis tries to respond is: what are the unsympathetic characters of street in contemporary Cameroonian’s novels? It is to demonstrate how the novel writers cited above reproduce, and contradict the social representation of streets in their respective novels. To resolve this problem statement, we convene the socio-poetic approach of Alain Montandon who analyses the manner in which representations and social imaginaries informs the text in its writing. It results from this social apprehension of streets representations in Cameroonian novel that the latter are places where socio-pathies occur. So, they participate to the exclusion of streets children.
Author Keywords: Characters, Unsympathetic, Streets, Adolescents, Novel.
Abstract: (french)
L’imaginaire littéraire repose sur l’espace qui en est le support. Dès lors, l’espace littéraire est un élément indissociable des autres éléments littéraires. Il se révèle en un carrefour d’interactions sociales des personnages selon qu’il est privé ou public. En considérant l’espace public romanesque, la rue apparait comme un lieu de rencontre de plusieurs personnages de rang et de classe sociaux différents. Cet article se propose d’analyser la représentation sociale des rues camerounaises dans deux romans, notamment Le Cri muet de Guillaume Nana et Petit Jo, enfant des rues d’Evelyne Mpoudi Ngollé. Il aborde la problématique de l’image sociale des rues en rapport avec les enfants de la rue. La question fondamentale à laquelle notre analyse tente de répondre est la suivante: quels sont les caractères antipathiques qui se dégagent de la représentation sociale des rues dans le roman contemporain camerounais ? Il s’agit de démontrer comment les romanciers ci-dessus cités, reprennent, manipulent et contredisent la représentation sociale des rues dans leurs romans respectifs. Pour traiter cette problématique, nous convoquons l’approche sociopoétique d’Alain Montandon qui entend analyser la manière dont les représentations et l’imaginaire social informent le texte dans son écriture même. Il résulte de cette lecture de la représentation sociale des rues dans le roman camerounais que ces dernières sont des lieux où se développent des sociopathies qui participent de l’exclusion des enfants de la rue.
Author Keywords: Caractères, Antipathiques, Rues, Adolescents, Roman.
How to Cite this Article
Pascal Graobé, “The unsympathetic characters of the Cameroonian streets in novels « Le Cri muet » of Guillaume Nana and « Petit Jo, enfant des rues » of Evelyne Mpoudi Ngollé,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 337–343, July 2021.
