Afropeanism in Léonora Miano’s “Tels des astres éteints”: a rhematic scription of identities transmigration Cover Image

L’afropéanisme dans Tels des astres éteints de Léonora Miano : une scription rhématique de la transmigration des identités
Afropeanism in Léonora Miano’s “Tels des astres éteints”: a rhematic scription of identities transmigration

Author(s): Arsène Blé Kain
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: afropeanism; identities transmigration; linguistic melting pot; hybrid tastes in music; heterogeneous names

Summary/Abstract: The afropeanism, notion popularized in the Francophone space by the Cameroonian writer Leonora Miano, relates to European national Black people having both an African and European and even American culture. This inter-identity paradigmatic of identities transmigration is materialized in Tels des astres éteints by the linguistic melting pot, characteristic of individuals’ expressions, and by their hybrid tastes in music, a mix of African, European and American tunes. Furthermore, their heterogeneous names are part of this mingling of cultures logic since having first names from cultural spheres other than their origins. In the end, Tels des astres éteints appears like a rhematic scription of identities transmigration.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 16-26
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: French