Discursive analysis of interlanguage in Koffi Kwahulé’s ‘Babyface’: plurilinguism, positioning and carnavalesque scenegraphy

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https://doi.org/10.7203/HYBRIDA.5(12/2022).25374

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carnavalisation, enunciation scene, hybridity, polyphony

Abstract

The novelists of the new generation are unashamedly violating the grammatical norm. This kind of discourse, which in the second half of the 20th century seemed to be an innovation in Black African literature, has become a norm at the beginning of the 21st century. The work by K. Kwahulé is part of this trend. Babyface is a novel constructed in bric-broc. The discourse is an interweaving of disparate linguistic and social phenomena composed against a jazz background. The architectonics of the novel is characterised by its chaotic dimension. This discursive jumble reveals the marks of carnival, a symbol of extreme hybridity. The scene of enunciation of this chaos is characterised by eschatological and scatological writing. This writing, which is characteristic of unreason and violence, appears as a textual tsunami. The aim of this article is twofold. It aims to highlight the extreme hybridity in the African novel and to show the mechanism by which carnivalisation contributes to the renewal of novel writing.

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Daouda Coulibaly, Université Peleforo Gon Coulibaly

Auteur d’une thèse de doctorat intitulée: Stylistique et Analyse du discours: pour une relecture des textes poétiques d’Afrique noire francophone . Il enseigne la stylistique et la rhétorique à l’Université Peleforo Gon Coulibaly dans le Nord de la Côte d’Ivoire. Il s’intéresse, particulièrement, à la relation que la stylistique entretient avec les théories discursives, l’énonciation, la pragmatique et les relations intertextuelle et culturelle qui président à la création des textes littéraires africains francophones.

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2022-12-27

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Coulibaly, D. (2022). Discursive analysis of interlanguage in Koffi Kwahulé’s ‘Babyface’: plurilinguism, positioning and carnavalesque scenegraphy. HYBRIDA, (5(12/2022), 61–74. https://doi.org/10.7203/HYBRIDA.5(12/2022).25374
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