The generic double dominant in ‘Zakwato. Pour que ma terre ne dorme plus jamais’, by Azo Vauguy

Abstract

Any literary text is defined proportionally to different prisms, including that of genre. It is realized by means of a code whose materialization is perceived as a linguistic regularity, a dominant. ‘Zakwato. Pour que ma terre ne dorme plus jamais’ is a poetic work in which, on the fringes of the poetic code, Azo Vauguy also makes the narrative code work, at high level, which becomes a second dominant. The tension between the dominant poetic and the dominant narrative makes this verbal creation a textual place where generic borders are pushed to the extreme. The article, from a stylistic perspective, thus analyzes the hybridity built from these two dominants and shows that it participates in the dynamism of generic literarity.