Ritual și corporalitate în teatrul lui Koffi Kwahulé, Bintou
Ritual and corporeality in the theatre of Koffi Kwahulé, Bintou

Summary/Abstract: The choice of the theme of this article derives from a dual motivation: the quality of writing and the theatrical exotism of a playwright who has long transgressed the space of a dwelling reception that does not get caught in the straps of an “African drama of French expression” the gallery of contemporary dramaturgy being translated into many languages, including Romanian. Although the obvious specificity of the themes of his theater diminishes or censures somewhat the degree of representativeness, dramaturgy craftsmanship, the beauty of style draws him out of this local, sometimes obvious determinism. This article has as a textual premise a text not as well-known as the texts that have at their core African Americanism in the United States, those musical pieces that made it famous, but a text inspired by the musical West Side Story, the version of ghetto, Bintou. On the background of an urban tragedy that conflicts the new against the old, the tradition of emancipation, the heresies of urban violence, we are witnessing the consummation of the destiny of a thirteen-year-old female character, Bintou, a wild flower of concrete walls. To dismiss the patterns of a sociological reception, or to fit the female character into a provocative gallery of young females, by Lolitas and American Beauty characters, we preferred to apply an interpretive grid that has at its core the character’s body, the dramaturgical valences of dance.

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