Abstract: Francophone writing in Mayotte pertains to a postcolonial experience. Thematic and formal aspects observed from the first novels published in Mayotte illustrate this statement because these novels reveal the influences of francophone literature from sub Sahara Africa. By insisting on the omnipresent question of the conflicting otherness, this contribution looks at the aesthetics of contestation which is central in novels by Abdou Salam Baco.
