L’invention des écritures et l’état du narratif en langues africaines : défis et perspectives

Alain-Joseph SISSAO

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L’invention des écritures et l’état du narratif en langues africaines : défis et perspectives

Authors:

Alain-Joseph SISSAO

Publisher:

Abdelouahad MABROUR

Journal:

Relais Vol.12 Issue 12, pp.109-122

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2026

Document Language:

French

Document ID (Org No.):

2001848148

pISSN:

3085-4679

Abstract:

 This paper takes stock of the changes in the approach to African literature and arts, in particular the relationship between orality and writing, and the inventions of writing, in particular the state of the narrative in Africa. The strategies for repositioning identity in African literature and the arts will be analysed, in particular on the basis of tales, popular songs, fiction and fictional self-fiction, architecture, painting and cinema. The aim is to analyse how African literature and the arts are gradually moving away from the periphery to create their own centre. This involves a profound upheaval and a paradigm shift that will enable literary works to be created with texts that speak of Africa and its history from an endogenous and uninhibited vision. From the 1990s onwards, African criticism began to move in the direction of carnivalesque writing and contemporary audacity. This innovation is seen in the 2000s in the mutations, ruptures, writing of violence and violence of writing. We have the emergence of digraphic writers, characterised by the shift away from orality towards writing in African languages. This evocation of digraphic writers will take the form of writings in Swahili, Kikuyu, Wolof, Bambara, Moore, Ewondo, etc . The notion of ‘language smugglers’ is inseparable from the concept of linguistic awareness. These writers provide a link between a world where foreign education did not exist, or only affected a very small fringe of the population, and a world where it has begun to spread.

Article Details

L’invention des écritures et l’état du narratif en langues africaines : défis et perspectives

Authors: Alain-Joseph SISSAO

Publisher: Abdelouahad MABROUR

Journal: Relais Vol.12 Issue 12, pp.109-122

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 1/2026

Document Language: French

Document ID (Org No.): 2001848148

pISSN: 3085-4679

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Authors:

Alain-Joseph SISSAO

Publisher:

Abdelouahad MABROUR

Journal:

Relais Vol.12 Issue 12, pp.109-122

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2026

Document Language:

French

Document ID (Org No.):

2001848148

pISSN:

3085-4679