L’Enfance volée : analyse de l’enfant-soldat dans Charly en guerre et dans La Petite fille à la kalachnikov
Stolen Childhood: Analysis of the Child-Soldier in Charly en guerre and in La Petite fille à la kalachnikov

Summary/Abstract: Child-soldiering is one of the most painful topics to analyse. These children, who are not authors of the war, are protagonists of the postcolonial novels, dragging the reader into the sad events of the civil wars in Africa. The main objective of this study is to demonstrate how war steals childhoods by turning children into killing machines. It is all about looking at how the writer represents the effects of war on children. Inspired by the theory of trauma and the illocutionary force propounded by Maria Pia Lara, this article examines how the war transforms the life of the child-soldier in Charly en guerre written by Florent Couao-Zotti and La Petite fille à la kalachnikov written by China Keitetsi . This study concludes that children must have the opportunity to learn and overcome traumatic experiences during the war.

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