Jeux et enjeux de l’écriture littéraire dans la trilogie de Kouta (1979-1982) de Massa Makan Diabaté

Abstract

national literatures in sub-Saharan Africa. Massa Makan Diabaté recognized shortly before his death as a national writer in his country Mali, embodies its choice games and stakes of literary writing ever detached lessons and achievements of the oral tradition. Questioning this approach as a writer is based on reading the trilogy Kouta (1976- 1982), the most characteristic of the evolution of the concept of literature and literary work in Mali in the early decades of work independence (1960-1980). . The three parts of this thesis analyzes the path of regional literatures of the colony to the advent of national literatures , including that of Mali, without which the journey of M.M. Diabaté and legitimacy in the Malian literary field is not understandable [I], the confrontation of the author in writing through the choice of language, the interpenetration of genres, and a typology of the novel through the utterance stage [II], and finally the characteristics of a writing emphasis axes knowledge of Malian society [anthropology, sociology] and the human framework [geography] (III). In the novel that is the sum of Kouta trilogy, M.M. Diabaté has tested a report to the literary modernity without a radical sign output ancestral legacies of the Malinke 476 society resurgent often in a large and unusual language and hybridization of literary writing dotted with genres of oral tradition (stories, songs, proverbs)