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Roads of Doubts Tierno Monénembo and the Writing of Filiations

  • Publication type: Journal article
  • Journal: La Revue des lettres modernes
    2023 – 2
    . Routes et dé-routes dans les fictions francophones subsahariennes
  • Author: Gbanou (Selom K.)
  • Abstract: For Tierno Monénembo, writing is the road where, seeking to dispel his doubts, the writer deals with the need to reconstruct his identity puzzle by revisiting the roads of his filiations in order to open the Self to himself and to the world, by extricating it from its spatial, cultural and historical confinement. His traveler, faced with routs and doubts, is (re)born as a writer as if, unpredictably, the road made him aware of a latent Self buried within him like a new landmark.
  • Pages: 113 to 135
  • Journal: Journal of Modern Literature
  • Series: Littératures francophones au présent, n° 2
  • CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
  • EAN: 9782406142027
  • ISBN: 978-2-406-14202-7
  • ISSN: 0035-2136
  • DOI: 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-14202-7.p.0113
  • Publisher: Classiques Garnier
  • Online publication: 01-25-2023
  • Periodicity: Monthly
  • Language: French
  • Keyword: Tierno Monénembo, road novel, filiation story, self-writing, French-speaking African novel.