Une redéfinition du féminisme africain dans Femme nue, femme noire de Calixthe Beyala, romancière à contre-courant
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6150682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Uchenna Bethrand Anih (0000-0002-2891-5830, ISNI: 0000000121839444 Obafemi Awolowo University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 75-87 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Francophone Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1368-2679 • E-ISSN: 1758-9142 |
| Publisher | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/ijfs_00056_5 |
| OpenAlex | W4392063587 |
| Language | FR |
| References cited | 7 |
This article examines the issues of literary impudence and homosexuality so much repudiated by African feminist theorists in Calixthe Beyala’s erotic novel, Femme nue, femme noire . It reflects on the pertinence of using African feminist ideologies in the criticism of Beyala’s fictions considering the fact her novelistic themes run contrary to the African feminist postulation where homosexuality, sex work and other transgressive tendencies constitute a strange and imported phenomenon. This article analyses the radicalization of African feminism through a close reading of Calixthe Beyala’s Femme nue, femme noire by highlighting recourse to subversion as a radical tendency in Beyala’s writings, which consists not only subverting the status quo through engaging in taboo-related discourse but also defending the sexual independence of the modern African woman as a form of emancipation. It concludes that the novel exhibits a new African feminism which is neither adapted to the collective feminist ethics nor to the African literary canon but to the individual feminine reality aimed at the total emancipation of the African woman
Art · Humanities · African history and culture studies · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture
Lesbian”/female same-sex sexualities in Africa
Entre "Femme noire" de Senghor et Femme nue, femme noire de Beyala
What Is African Woman? Transgressive Sexuality in 21st-Century African Anglophone Lesbian Fiction as a Redefinition of African Feminism
The Emerging Lesbian Voice in Nigerian Feminist Literature
Between the Subversive Pen and the Blasphemous Microphone
Calixthe Beyala ou le discours blasphématoire au propre
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |