@article{ART003175464},
author={KIM Young},
title={A Study on Spatial Hybridity and Female Desire in an Animated Film Aya de Yopougon},
journal={Journal of Humanities},
issn={1598-8457},
year={2025},
number={96},
pages={261-295}
TY - JOUR
AU - KIM Young
TI - A Study on Spatial Hybridity and Female Desire in an Animated Film Aya de Yopougon
JO - Journal of Humanities
PY - 2025
VL - null
IS - 96
PB - Institute for Humanities
SP - 261
EP - 295
SN - 1598-8457
AB - This study focuses on the examination of an animated film Aya de Yopougon (2013) directed by Marguerite Abouet and Clément Oubrerie. The film centers on three young women in and around Yopougon, and raises their personal, domestic and social issues.
Chapter 1 presents the background of the formation of both Abidjan, the central city of Côte d’Ivoire, and Yopougon located in its suburb from a historical and regional perspective. It examines the spatial characteristics of Yopougon and traces the context in which the youth of Yopougon had a sufficient hope to seize the opportunities offered by downtown Abidjan, Paris and the United States. In Chapter 2, we see that the desires of the three girls are not irrelevant to the spatial qualities explored in Chapter 1. Following the stories of Aya, who aspires for subjective independence, Adjoua, who wishes to climb up the social ladder through the help of her husband, and Bintou, who dreams of moving into a new space and entering high society, we discover a relationship between domination and subjugation in Côte d’Ivoire, symbolized by Yopougon and Abidjan. The characters of the film can be found in any society, and the events can happen anywhere. In this sense, this work, which portrays the societies of Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan and Yopougon, has played an important role in changing a narrow and Western-oriented vision of Africa to a wider and universal one in the popular arts of comics and animation.
KW - Marguerite Abouet;Clément Oubrerie;Yopougon; Abidjan;Hybrid Space;Female Desire
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KIM Young. (2025). A Study on Spatial Hybridity and Female Desire in an Animated Film Aya de Yopougon. Journal of Humanities, 96, 261-295.
KIM Young. 2025, "A Study on Spatial Hybridity and Female Desire in an Animated Film Aya de Yopougon", Journal of Humanities, no.96, pp.261-295.
KIM Young "A Study on Spatial Hybridity and Female Desire in an Animated Film Aya de Yopougon" Journal of Humanities 96 pp.261-295 (2025) : 261.
KIM Young. A Study on Spatial Hybridity and Female Desire in an Animated Film Aya de Yopougon. 2025; 96 : 261-295.
KIM Young. "A Study on Spatial Hybridity and Female Desire in an Animated Film Aya de Yopougon" Journal of Humanities no.96(2025) : 261-295.
KIM Young. A Study on Spatial Hybridity and Female Desire in an Animated Film Aya de Yopougon. Journal of Humanities, 96, 261-295.
KIM Young. A Study on Spatial Hybridity and Female Desire in an Animated Film Aya de Yopougon. Journal of Humanities. 2025; 96 261-295.
KIM Young. A Study on Spatial Hybridity and Female Desire in an Animated Film Aya de Yopougon. 2025; 96 : 261-295.
KIM Young. "A Study on Spatial Hybridity and Female Desire in an Animated Film Aya de Yopougon" Journal of Humanities no.96(2025) : 261-295.
