Vol. 14 No 1-2 (2013)
Le français dans le miroir des langues

Le français, langue colonisatrice

Lilla Horányi
Université Eötvös Loránd, Budapest

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

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.