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In a New Landscape of Modern Francophone African Poetry - With a Focus on the Trends after the 1980s

  • Cross-Cultural Studies
  • 2023, 68(), pp.97-124
  • DOI : 10.21049/ccs.2023.68..97
  • Publisher : Center for Cross Culture Studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Literature
  • Received : January 10, 2230
  • Accepted : February 7, 2023
  • Published : February 28, 2023

Song Hongjin 1

1경북대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper aims to examine the new landscape of contemporary French-language African poetry since the 1980s. A new generation of Francophone African poets, who have shown a distinctly different orientation from the Negritude movement since the 1980s, tried to pay attention to the fundamental issues of endless African tragedies from various perspectives. Through his concept of "The Poetry of Interference", Senegalese poet Babacar Sall reminds us that a poet's duty is to resist oblivion. In his poetical work, The Blood of the Hills, he poignantly describes the Rwandan genocide, while achieving a high level of aesthetic perfection. Following Sony Labou Tansi’s insistance on "the act of breathing" against the death and violence rampant in the African continent, Côte d'Ivorian poets Véronique Tadjo and Tanella Boni face the darkness of reality and sing for hope for the African women. Finally, Chadian Poet Nimrod does not openly reveal the death and suffering of Africa, but draws a new poetic landscape that is overlapped in his memory while crossing the borders of the continents with a delicate sense of nature and a keen eye for reality.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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