Le corps et la quȇte du pouvoir dans l’œuvre de Bernard Dadié
The Body and the Quest for Power in the Work of Bernard Dadié

Summary/Abstract: When analyzing the sacralization of the body and the quest for power in Dadié's works, it is observed that the author generally uses the body to account for a rhetorical and dialectical system in which the characters evolve, mostly in search of freedom, and they obtain this freedom through an initiation whose main objective is power. For the body, to adhere to the logic of the quest for power, the author singles out and sacralizes the characters. A ghost body communicates with a living body, a living body communicates with the gods. We believe that this logic stems from a personal and social experience based on the writer's cultural dispositions and aims to offer spectators a real opportunity in the sense that the universe in which he makes his choices is realistic. Almost all of his creation opposes characters either in a universe of domination or in a royal or religious universe. However, the question of the body is not limited to the human being; it also takes into account all bodies capable of creating a semantic relationship in the theater. This is why the perception of the functionality of the body in his texts requires taking into account a mythical universe and some fundamental symbols on which his imagination is based.

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