Vol. 9 No. 1 (2007)
Critica

Le moi des autres: les sources de la polyphonie narrative chez les écrivaines africaines

Elena Cuasante Fernández
Universidad de Cádiz

Published 01-06-2007

Keywords

  • literature,
  • Africa,
  • woman,
  • enunciation,
  • polyphony

How to Cite

Cuasante Fernández, E. (2007). Le moi des autres: les sources de la polyphonie narrative chez les écrivaines africaines. Verbum – Analecta Neolatina, 9(1), 17–26. https://doi.org/10.1556/Verb.9.2007.1.2

Abstract

One of the main characteristics of feminine literary texts from black Africa is the dominant use of the first person as a narrative instance of the story. In this work we will try to show how the homodiegetic narrative of the first texts of women writers offers a series of specific features that refer, on the one hand, to the plural value of the use of the first person in non-fiction texts, and, on the other hand, to the introduction, in fiction texts, of new mechanisms of gender identification as polyphony or dialogic communication between women.