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Genre/Form: | Thèses et écrits académiques |
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Material Type: | Thesis/dissertation |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
MARCELLIN BOKA; Roger Fayolle; Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris). |
OCLC Number: | 490371607 |
Notes: | 1986PA030094. |
Responsibility: | MARCELLIN BOKA ; sous la direction de ROGER FAYOLLE. |
Abstract:
IN THIS WORK OUR PURPOSE WAS THREE FOLDS : WE HAVE DEFINED THE CONCEPT OF REALISM IN THE NOVEL; WE HAVE EXAMINED THE ARTISTICAL EXPRESSION OF SUCH A CONCEPT IN THE AFRICAN NOVEL FROM A HISTORICAL POINT OF VIEW; WE HAVE INVESTIGATED THE SPECIFIC WAYS AFRICAN NOVELISTS RESORT TO REALISM. WHAT HAVE BEEN THE RESULTS OF THIS INVESTIGATION? IN THE FIRST PART DEVOTED TO THE GENESIS OF THE AFRICAN NOVEL, TO ITS CONDITIONS OF EMERGENCE AND TO ITS EVOLUTION, WE NOTICED THAT THE AFRICAN NOVEL OF THE COLONIAL ERE WAS AT THE BEGINNING, A COMMITTED ART.FOR THE AFRICAN NOVELIST, COMMITMENT HAD TURNED INTO A PURE ORTHODOXY. BUT "LITERARY" ORTHODOXY, WHATEVER IT IS, JEOPARDIZES THE WORK. SO, WHEN AFRICAN COUNTRIES ATTEINED INDEPENDANCE, THE NOVELISTS URGED TO EXPLORE NEW MATTERS SO THAT THEY COULD ENDOW NOVEL WITH A NEW DIRECTION AN ORIGINAL STYLE. THEN, IN THE SECOND PART, WE STUDIED THE LITERARY PROJECT OF AFRICAN NOVELISTS. AS REGARDS TITLES AND PREFACES WE SHOWED THAT MOST OF THEM TESTIFY IN FAVOUR OF REALISTIC PRINCIPLES; FOR WHAT IS ART AND ESCAPE BENEATH OTHER SKIES, FOR BLACK NOVELISTS TURNS INTO THE NEED OF TRANSCRIBRIG REALITY FAITHFULLY; ART BECOMING TECHNICAL AND DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE IS NOT END IN ITSELF. VERISIMILITUDE AND VERIFIABLE HAVE ALSO BEEN ANALYSED: THE BELONG TO THE ESTHETICS OF REALISM. IN THE THIRD PART, WE DEALT WITH SPATIO TEMPORALREALISM AND WITH CHARACTERS. IN ORDER TO GRASP THE IMPORT OF THE MESSAGES WE NOT ONLY WORKED ON THE STRUCTURES OF THE DISCURSIVE LEVEL, WE ALSO FOCUSED OUR ATTENTION UPON THE SITUATIONAL CONTEXT. WE NOW REACH THE MAIN ISSUE: WHAT SPECIFIC USE AFRICAN NOVELISTS MAKE OF REALISM? FIRST, WE WERE INTERESTED IN STRICTLY AFRICAN ORAL TECHNIQUES; THEN WE STUDIED HOW AFRICAN NOVELISTS RESORT TO.
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