Spiritualite(s) et ecriture postmoderne dans le roman francophone [Articol]

Abstract

Spirituality, which refers to the religious expression of “spiritual life” or, in a general sense, to the feeling (to the very conviction) of being inhabited by “someone other than oneself”, or at least, to the consciousness of limits of the “me”, is enough evocated and studied in the contemporary francophone novel. She is the deep source of the anguish of the main character in L’Aventure ambiguë (1961) of Cheikh Hamidou Kane, the object of the young hero’s lust in Laurent Owondo’s Au Bout du silence, the refuge of the protagonists in La Nuit sacrée or L’enfant de sable of Tahar Ben Jelloun. It is therefore inseparable from the notion of quest which traditionally defines the trajectory of the subject in the novel. However, postmodern trends of this genre being marked by discontinuity, renarrativation, hypertextuality, thematic treatment as well as the style of writing are transformed. Thus, we want to show, with the works of francophone writers (see corpus), how the heterogeneity of the spiritualities present in their novel testifies to a major transformation of literature in the 21st century. It would therefore be interesting to study this literary revolution in a transdisciplinary approach, through the prism of theories of the imagination, narratology and postmodernism.