Karel Plaiche
Keywords: French Studies, French and Francophone Literatures and cultures, Comparative Literature, African Francophone Literatures.
Karel Plaiche is a lecturer in French and Francophone literatures at the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and a research associate at the Laboratoire de recherche sur les espaces Créoles et Francophones EA7390 (Université de La Réunion, France). Her research deals with post-colonial and contemporary literary and artistic creations (Africa, France, Indian Ocean), especially spaces and contexts where the cultural imaginary is shaped by crisis and/or violence. She is interested in the problematisation and representation (writing/publication/reception) of experiences of pain, alienation, loss and trauma as well as of logics of power, domination, and violence (dictatorships, conflits, wars, extreme violence, migrations, marginalisation, exploitation of the living...) in a multidisciplinary perspective (discourse analysis, aesthetics, history, sociology, anthropology, psychology).
Address: School of Languages and Literatures, French Section, Beattie Building, office 206.
University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Karel Plaiche is a lecturer in French and Francophone literatures at the University of Cape Town (South Africa) and a research associate at the Laboratoire de recherche sur les espaces Créoles et Francophones EA7390 (Université de La Réunion, France). Her research deals with post-colonial and contemporary literary and artistic creations (Africa, France, Indian Ocean), especially spaces and contexts where the cultural imaginary is shaped by crisis and/or violence. She is interested in the problematisation and representation (writing/publication/reception) of experiences of pain, alienation, loss and trauma as well as of logics of power, domination, and violence (dictatorships, conflits, wars, extreme violence, migrations, marginalisation, exploitation of the living...) in a multidisciplinary perspective (discourse analysis, aesthetics, history, sociology, anthropology, psychology).
Address: School of Languages and Literatures, French Section, Beattie Building, office 206.
University of Cape Town, South Africa.
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This paper focuses on the rhetoric of the monstrous in a selection of Francophone African fictional texts related to events of war in contemporary
Sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing in particular on the theory of the grotesque, it explores the manifestations of the monstrous through the spectacular and subversive representation of the novels' characters. The analysis of hideous, hybrid, animalized, distorted, and broken bodies aims at unveiling a poetics of alienation, loss, and death-notions that powerfully reflect the horror and the absurdity of war.
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https://journals.co.za/toc/french/current
Jury : Pr Pius Nkashama NGANDU, Pr Romuald FONKOUA, Pr Bernard TERRAMORSI. Pr Jean-Claude C MARIMOUTOU, Mention : Très Honorable avec Félicitations du jury avec autorisation de publication.
Ce travail de recherche de 772 pages examine la representation de l'experience des violences extremes dans l'espace fictionnel contemporain de l4Afrique subsaharienne francophone. Les nombreuses fictions en prose produites dans le sillage des conflits armes des annees 90 et du genocide au Rwanda soulevent des interrogations liees a la representation de la douleur, de la cruaute et de la mort ainsi qu’a l'ethique de l'art. Comment le texte litteraire met-il en recit les evenements traumatiques ? Comment l,ecrivain pense et problematise-t-il des crises extremes relevant de l'histoire immediate ? Selon quelles modalites litteraires sont-elles constituees en un objet de connaissance et de sensibilisation ? Et quelles sont les strategies langagieres et esthetiques privilegiees pour transmettre la memoire des atrocites dans une visee de temoignage ou de reflexion critique ? (...)
Université de la Réunion, LCF EA 4549
This paper focuses on the rhetoric of the monstrous in a selection of Francophone African fictional texts related to events of war in contemporary
Sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing in particular on the theory of the grotesque, it explores the manifestations of the monstrous through the spectacular and subversive representation of the novels' characters. The analysis of hideous, hybrid, animalized, distorted, and broken bodies aims at unveiling a poetics of alienation, loss, and death-notions that powerfully reflect the horror and the absurdity of war.
To access to paper and current issue online :
https://journals.co.za/toc/french/current
Jury : Pr Pius Nkashama NGANDU, Pr Romuald FONKOUA, Pr Bernard TERRAMORSI. Pr Jean-Claude C MARIMOUTOU, Mention : Très Honorable avec Félicitations du jury avec autorisation de publication.
Ce travail de recherche de 772 pages examine la representation de l'experience des violences extremes dans l'espace fictionnel contemporain de l4Afrique subsaharienne francophone. Les nombreuses fictions en prose produites dans le sillage des conflits armes des annees 90 et du genocide au Rwanda soulevent des interrogations liees a la representation de la douleur, de la cruaute et de la mort ainsi qu’a l'ethique de l'art. Comment le texte litteraire met-il en recit les evenements traumatiques ? Comment l,ecrivain pense et problematise-t-il des crises extremes relevant de l'histoire immediate ? Selon quelles modalites litteraires sont-elles constituees en un objet de connaissance et de sensibilisation ? Et quelles sont les strategies langagieres et esthetiques privilegiees pour transmettre la memoire des atrocites dans une visee de temoignage ou de reflexion critique ? (...)
Université de la Réunion, LCF EA 4549