Open AccessLa migritude ou l’alchimie d’une altérité onirique : espace et identité dans le roman africain francophone
Author(s) -
Akimou Assani
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
caietele echinox
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1582-960X
DOI - 10.24193/cechinox.2020.38.24
Subject(s) - identity (music) , citizenship , french , dream , theme (computing) , humanities , immigration , movement (music) , ethnology , sociology , art , gender studies , history , aesthetics , political science , psychology , politics , law , archaeology , neuroscience , computer science , operating system
The publication of the Senegalese writer Fatou Diome’s Le Ventre de l’Atlantique (The Belly of the Atlantic) in 2003 revealed to the general public a new theme of predilection among African writers of the “new generation:” the writing of immigration and the claim of a global identity. In analogy to the movement of Negritude that fought for the affirmation and recognition of the black man and his culture, Jacques Chevrier called it “migritude.” While negritude is meant to be the affirmation of an existing identity, “migritude” instead claims the integration of that identity into the universal crucible of world citizenship. Achievable dream or chimerical delusions? Our work is aimed at seeking relevant answers to these questions.