Le marronnage comme essai d'esthétique littéraire négro-africaine contemporaine

Our subject of reflection was to think about what links French-language African and Caribbean literature, in addition to history. We have studied writing strategies deployed by writers, to stand out, to signify their existence, Starting from the practice of marronage as a historical phenomenon linked to slavery, we began a reflection on its literary transposition, to From the mythology of the figure of the Brown, by authors such as Dayot, Houat, and more recently Glissant and Chamoiseau, who were able to develop an aesthetic of the survival, valorize the identity of the Brown, herald of the Antillean people in the resistance to slavery. Most of our work has focused on expanding this theme of marronage to the colonial and postcolonial periods, by postulating the hypothesis of the existence of a form of intellectual marronnage as the foundation of a Negro-African aesthetic, established by the precursors of Negritude, Senghor and Césaire, whose most original work, but often neglected , was the conquest of a language of blackness. The contemporary French-speaking writers of Black Africa, like Alain Mabanckou and Fatou Diome, in a context inscribed in a globalist dynamic and a literary space conditioned by the dictates of a Eurocentric criticism, practiced a form of marronage. (trans) aesthetic, but also by redoubled linguistic overconsciousness, by developing strategies to subversively inscribe in the heart of language the imprint of a claimed deviance, as the only way to signify one's identity.