Ecriture post-coloniale de l'identite dans l'oeuvre romanesque d'Ahmadou Kourouma
Postcolonial and Problematic writing of identity in Ahmadou Kouroma's Novelistic work

Summary/Abstract: The rapport identity/otherness is a consubstantial problematic to French language African literature. Indeed, if the forerunners or what some call Negro-African colonial novelists have shown a fascination towards the West,and this by shining its values and considering its culture as a universal culture other novelists, on the other hand, they have struggled to highlight African identity by revaluing African culture and values. Beyond this opposition identity/otherness, another generation of African writers advocated syncretism; that is to say, a happy synthesis between African and European cultural values, betweenthe Western model and the African imaginary. That being said, we propose in the framework of this reflection to focus our interest on the motivation that made Ahmadou Kourouma to take an interest in this problem and to see how heapprehended it and by making sure that he puts forward a stable, homogeneous,reconstructed, moving or heterogeneous identity. It is also a question of showing how the formal attempts and the particularities of writing, that Kourouma’sfictional work gives, highlight identity.

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