[ L’écriture de l’errance dans « L’aîné des orphelins » de Tierno Monénembo ]
Volume 39, Issue 2, April 2023, Pages 1050–1056
Pidabi Gnabana1
1 Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) d’Atakpamé, Togo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2023 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.
This article aims to highlight the different manifestations of wandering and their impact on the characters. From an approach based on narratology and sociocriticism, the article has shown that the text gives to read a scriptural wandering which is manifested by spatio-temporal anachronisms and intercalated narratives. This form of wandering is the reflection of the narrator’s physical wandering, which prefigures itself as the manifestation of a consciousness that has lost its bearings and is seeking to define itself. The tumultuous course of the narrator also refers to a mental wandering in a crooked universe marked by the inhuman actions of the genociders who prefigure animality. Through the writing of wandering, the article shows that the novel is an outlet for the suffering and frustration of the characters. Therefore, it promotes what founds the need for a new humanism.
Author Keywords: Writing about wandering, novel, inhuman behavior, trauma, new humanism.
Volume 39, Issue 2, April 2023, Pages 1050–1056
Pidabi Gnabana1
1 Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) d’Atakpamé, Togo
Original language: French
Copyright © 2023 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
This article aims to highlight the different manifestations of wandering and their impact on the characters. From an approach based on narratology and sociocriticism, the article has shown that the text gives to read a scriptural wandering which is manifested by spatio-temporal anachronisms and intercalated narratives. This form of wandering is the reflection of the narrator’s physical wandering, which prefigures itself as the manifestation of a consciousness that has lost its bearings and is seeking to define itself. The tumultuous course of the narrator also refers to a mental wandering in a crooked universe marked by the inhuman actions of the genociders who prefigure animality. Through the writing of wandering, the article shows that the novel is an outlet for the suffering and frustration of the characters. Therefore, it promotes what founds the need for a new humanism.
Author Keywords: Writing about wandering, novel, inhuman behavior, trauma, new humanism.
Abstract: (french)
Cet article a pour office de mettre en lumière les différentes manifestations de l’errance et leur impact sur les personnages. A partir d’une démarche basée sur la narratologie et la sociocritique, l’article a montré que le texte donne à lire une errance scripturale qui se manifeste par les anachronismes spatio-temporels et des récits intercalés. Cette forme d’errance est le reflet de l’errance physique du narrateur qui se préfigure comme la manifestation d’une conscience qui a perdu ses repères et qui cherches à se définir. Le parcours tumultueux du narrateur renvoie également à une errance mentale dans un univers de travers marqué par des agissements inhumains des génocideurs qui préfigurent l’animalité. Par le biais de l’écriture de l’errance, l’article laisse voir que le roman est un exutoire à la souffrance et à la frustration des personnages. Partant, il promeut ce qui fonde la nécessité d’un nouvel humanisme.
Author Keywords: Ecriture de l’errance, roman, agissement inhumain, traumatisme, nouvel humanisme.
How to Cite this Article
Pidabi Gnabana, “The writing of wandering in « L’aîné des orphelins » by Tierno Monénembo,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 1050–1056, April 2023.
