Hypotyposis and Objectification of the Horrible Scene: Stylizing the Figure of Reality in Some Contemporary Francophone African Novels
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https://doi.org/10.18778/1505-9065.11.19Keywords:
hypotyposis, objectification, horrible scene, sociocriticism, contemporary Francophone African novel, narrationAbstract
This study shows that it is simplistic to argue that the narrative dynamics in contemporary Francophone African novel is monotonous. It then consists in demonstrating that it is rather indicative of a striking realism that it sometimes offers to see horrific scenes of life exhibited such that the reader immediately succumb to the temptation to share the worldview of author in review through the characters involved. Based on the operationalization of the explicit-implicit duality as structured in Pierre Barberis’s sociocriticism framework, the study postulates, in two parts, that hypotyposis is a fertile and multiple variable figure which is spread at the same time like the modalisation of an event, a relevant semiological sign, a figure of the transcendence convened by the novelist in order to collect the attention of the reader by touching his psyche and causing in him a certain number of emotions such as the feeling of horror.
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