Publiée 12/01/2013
Mots-clés
- Africa,
- colonialism,
- Georges Simenon,
- Other,
- postcolonial studies
Comment citer
Horányi, L. (2013). Le français, langue colonisatrice. Verbum – Analecta Neolatina, 14(1-2), 283–294. https://doi.org/10.1556/Verb.14.2013.1-2.21
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Résumé
In this paper, we examine how the Other is represented in two exotic novels of Georges Simenon, Le Coup de lune (1933) and Le Blanc à lunettes (1937), which take place in Africa and deal with the colonial experience of two European men. Through a postcolonial reading, we show that the representation of the Other is related to the notions of absence, silence and look. Our analysis will also reveal to what extent a rapprochement is possible between European colonizers and Native people.