MAIN CHARACTERS VOYAGE AS SYMBOL OF A QUEST Cover Image

LE VOYAGE DES PERSONNAGES PRINCIPAUX COMME SYMBOLE D’UNE QUÊTE
MAIN CHARACTERS VOYAGE AS SYMBOL OF A QUEST

Author(s): Agnès Kouassi
Subject(s): Anthropology, Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Sociology of Culture, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Piteşti
Keywords: Ivorian novelists; postcolonial literature; travel; quest; principals characters; leak

Summary/Abstract: In common understanding, traveling is the fact of leaving one place to another. It is a change of residence, housing. A trip has, in itself, causes, goals and the different qualifiers from the other. Also, can we distinguish the tourist, study tour and escape. The last cited is a phenomenon that suffered the majority of the characters in the works of Ivorian novelists. Whether Johanne, Sarah, Alice, Nafiassou, Natou, Sonanfê, Valérie, Akissi, Amoin and Malimouna, all at a time where to another, leave their original places for one elsewhere more or less uncertai At the difference of the Europeans who explain their presence on African soil, by the needs and requirements of cooperation Africans consider Europe as the Eldorado. Their presence on this continent is best to be research-based and of material goods that they must at all costs to acquire and return improve their lives at home. Others are as political exiles. The finding that emerges here is that the different displacements have not the same causes or the same goals. Some travels have cause poverty or political persecution, other causes of aid, but all have lucrative purposes. The reasons are, often, financial, social or human.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 19
  • Page Range: 37-50
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: French