De la créativité lexicale à l’hybridité générique et vocale: une analyse stylistique de Le-fils-de-la-femme-mâle de Maurice Bandaman

Authors : Daouda Coulibaly

Pages : 543-562

Doi:10.26650/LITERA2020-0038

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Publication Date : 2020-12-23

Article Type : Research

Abstract :Stylistics is a science born from the works of Charles Bally at the start of the 20thcentury. It centers on literary texts. To decipher them, stylistics focuses on methods and concepts from the language sciences. It is therefore effective in bringing to light the various subtleties of the African novel which continues to regenerate from the resources of African language and linguistic heritage. This regeneration results in an Africanization of the writing language. It follows that re-lexicalization is at the heart of verbal praxis. It is materialized by the embedding of oral ethno-texts in the novel. This creativity is a form of discursive subversion which is characterized by a polyphonic and transgeneric aesthetics. Le-fils-de-la-femme-mâle by Maurice Bandaman conforms to this standard. The typographical configuration shows that the enunciative foundations of the work rests on the structure of the traditional African tale. As a result, the novel resists the norms of traditional storytelling. Furthermore, the insertion of the African tale into the structure of the novel is not based on any stable rule. The discourse is based on an intertextual practice that upsets the architectonics of the classic novel. It breaks with the canon and imposes another reception modality which provides obvious enjoyment to the reader. This work highlights all of the enunciative, linguistic and discursive phenomena that contribute to the authenticity of this work.
Keywords : Stylistics, generic hybridity, intertextuality, enunciation scene, polyphony