Auteur / Autrice : | Ibrahim Yahaya |
Direction : | Romuald Fonkoua |
Type : | Thèse de doctorat |
Discipline(s) : | Littérature française, générale et comparée. Etudes dramaturgiques |
Date : | Soutenance en 2010 |
Etablissement(s) : | Strasbourg |
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Résumé
The present thesis analyses the images and representations of the « Central African » mission through French and African literary and cinematographic works of the 20th and 21st centuries. Its problematics consists in showing how literature and cinema take over the particular object of this military colonial history through the specific case of the Voulet-Chanoine column events that include some unsaid, in order to make a real industry of literary and artistic creation out of it. Then, from the literary and cinematographic works that have been created and kept in the corpus, it gets down to looking for the mechanisms giving rise to the colonial mythologies and their meanings. The purpose of this tripartite imagological study that must be considered in terms of a comparatist approach in the form of a historico-literary criticism, is not to search for the historical truth about the « strangest and bloodiest chapter in the history of the French expeditions in Sudan », but rather to bring out the ideology behind it in the form of images and representations of the African and European worlds, by making use of the authors’ literary style and the aesthetics of the works. The demonstration of this problematics on the basis of a corpus made of military stories as well as fictitious literary and cinematographic works, leads to expressing the power of fiction through the emergence of the literary myth that gives power to imagination, the « crazy one in the house »