Avant-gardisme, jeu et contre-discours dans Babyface de Koffi Kwahulé

Abstract

In his novel Babyface, Koffi Kwahulé, who is one of the greatest writers of contemporary Africa, takes exception to political intolerance and ethnocentrism. The stylistic innovations discernible in the novel have the effect of throwing into relief stock themes such as the folly of passions (war, politics and love) and the socio-political disarray of post-colonial Africa as well as new issues such as the politicization of gender, the State as invention, identity as creation and culture as relationship.