Polyphony in Igiaba Scego i Léonora Miano

A narrative weapon to recover political speech

Authors

  • Anna Eberle École Normale Supérieure de Lyon

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/Compas.2022.5.39570.47-54

Abstract

This article aims to compare the work of two writers who both belong to “postcolonial literature” and are of the same generation: the Italian-Somali author Igiaba Scego (b. 1974), and the French-Cameroonian author Léonora Miano (b. 1973). The weight of colonial domination is an omnipresent theme in the two texts we have chosen to analyze: Crépuscule du tourment by Miano and Oltre Babilonia by Scego. Our intention is to explore the capacity of these texts, and their power to constitute themselves as “counter-narratives” thanks to the mechanism of polyphony which is inseparable from an écriture de l’intime.
Keywords: postcolonial literature, polyphony, écriture de l’intime, counter-narrative.

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Author Biography

Anna Eberle, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon



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Published

2022-04-28

Issue

No. 5 (2022): Compàs d'amalgama

Section

MONOGRAPHIC DOSSIER

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