La dynamique poetique du logis dans les oeuvres litteraires de Laye Camara.
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Title
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La dynamique poetique du logis dans les oeuvres litteraires de Laye Camara.
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Identifier
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AAI3008877
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identifier
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3008877
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Creator
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Uruakpa, Chibuzo Ngozichi Amanze.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Edouard Glissant
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Date
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2001
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Language
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French
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, African | Language, Modern | Literature, Modern
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Abstract
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The literary works of the Guinean author, Laye Camara, are born out of the author's internal and mental landscape composed of layers of cultural sediment. They celebrate the glorious heritage which for over a thousand years adorned the region of the Upper Niger, (the vast ancient Mali Empire). By his death in 1980, Camara had written four books: L'Enfant noir (1953), Le Regard du Roi (1954), Dramouss (1966) and Le Maitre de la Parole (1978), each of which depicts traditional African life. The author's narrative gives a sense of completeness, since his oeuvre draws from the entire spectrum of African culture. This study seeks first to determine what these layers consist of and the influence they have on the creative process. It also examines the dynamics at work in the erosion of these layers as both Africa and the African go through the tortuous route of slavery, colonization and de-colonization.;Prior studies geared toward discovering the cultural depth of these works have neither fully penetrated nor revealed these layers, because they principally have been carried out using Western literary and critical instruments which do not take into full consideration the heterogeneous nature of both Africa and African literature on one hand and, on the other, the peculiarity and uniqueness of their experience. Because these sediments have hitherto received inadequate scholarly attention, an imperfect picture of the cultural dynamics of Camara's oeuvre has been the result.;In this study these layers of cultural sediment are called logis , the primordial native home, a cultural space with a magical, magnetic force. As this study will show, the author carefully depicts the logis in such a way that the entire narrative is structured and determined by it.;Yet as this cultural space increasingly comes in contact with the outside world---the West---through a variety of avenues, a mechanism is set into motion by which the African logis is constantly in the process of becoming. This thesis examines the intercultural dialogue between the African logis and the West in the light of Edouard Glissant's poetics of relation, with a view to determining the socio-cultural changes undergone by this logis. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
