A Fictive History of C�te d'Ivoire: Kourouma and ?Fouphouai?
| Autor: | Carrol F. Coates |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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| Zdroj: | Research in African Literatures. 38:124-139 |
| ISSN: | 1527-2044 0034-5210 |
| DOI: | 10.2979/ral.2007.38.2.124 |
| Popis: | Ahmadou Kourouma’s final (posthumous) novel, Quand on refuse, on dit non, clearly presents the late President Houphouet-Boigny as the vaillain from the modern history of independent Cote d’Ivoire. the goal of this study is to trace the presence of Houphouet in Kourouma’s five published novels, from the allusions to a dictatorial president who indulges in arbitrary arrests, torture, and execution ( Les soleils des independences), over a rapid history of Cote d’Ivoire from colonization to the 1980s ( Monne, outrages et defies ), to the lightly disguised portrait of Houphouet as tiekoroni ( En attendant le vote des betes sauvages), to his presumed negotiation with the rebel leader Foday Sankoh of Sierra leone Allah n’est pas oblige). In the final, uncompleted novel, Quand on refuse, on dit non, the scene is the civil war that broke out in Cote d’Ivoire in September 1992, under the presidency of Laurent Gbagbo. Kourouma clearly states that “the history of Cote d’Ivoire is confounded with the personal history of Houphouet-Boigny.” Kourouma is not above the use of unconfirmed legend, blended with historical fact, in composing a broad canvas of Houphouet’s “corruption and unscrupulousness.” |
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