Literary transposition techniques of the legend of Aline Sitoe Diatta in The Drums of Memory by Boubacar Boris Diop Cover Image

Las técnicas de transposición literaria de la leyenda de Aline Sitoe Diatta en Los tambores de la memoria de Boubacar Boris Diop
Literary transposition techniques of the legend of Aline Sitoe Diatta in The Drums of Memory by Boubacar Boris Diop

Author(s): Djidiack FAYE
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Customs / Folklore, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Theory of Literature
Published by: EDITURA ASE
Keywords: Legend; legendary; history; narrative; fiction; reality;

Summary/Abstract: This article is a study of the legend of Aline Sitoe Diatta in Boubacar Boris Diop's Les tambours de la mémoire. We analyze the way the author has inscribed the legend in the novelistic narrative and the different devices he uses for the literary transposition of the story of Aline Sitoe Diatta. For this purpose, we devoted the first part to the theory of the legend which allowed us to identify the paradigms of the genre from which we will interpret, in the second part, the legendary in the novel of Boris Diop.

  • Issue Year: 23/2022
  • Issue No: 39
  • Page Range: 116-130
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Spanish