Article: Contact de cultures : cohabitation, confrontation, choc
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2024
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Malinovská, Zuzana
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Partant de l’acception large du mot culture et de l’idée de l’inévitable contact de cultures dans les sociétés contemporaines, l’article réflechit sur la représentation du contact des cultures dans trois fictions différentes, à savoir Pas Pleurer (2014) de Lydie Salvayre, Allah n’est pas obligé (2000) d’Ahmadou Kurouma et Hiver à Sokcho (2016) d’Elisa Shua Dusapin. Écrivaine française dont la langue maternelle est l’espagnol, Salvayre donne à voir le contact de cultures, française et espagnole, comme une cohabitation en bonne intelligence. Kourouma, un des auteurs les plus importants du continent africain, originaire de Côte d’Ivoire, représente le contact des cultures comme la confrontation de cultures opposées : la française, centrale et supérieure du point de vue occidental, et la malinkée, périphérique et exotique. Marqué par cette biculturalité, l’écrivain d’expression française dont le rapport à la langueculture française est problématique, fait de la confrontation de deux cultures opposées le principe de sa construction romanesque. L’autrice franco-suisse Elisa Shua Dusapin conçoit le contact de deux cultures différentes, française et sud-coréenne, comme un choc, à première vue dévastateur, menaçant, puis enrichissant. Les trois auteurs refusent aussi bien la hiérarchisation des cultures qu’une vision manichéenne. Les textes respectifs, imprégnés de nombreux culturèmes, importants ou anecdotiques, plaisent et instruisent : ils transmettent des savoirs non-conceptualisés et justifient ainsi l’importance des belles-lettres dans les sociétés.
Contact between cultures: co-existence, confrontation, shock. Building on the broad meaning of the word “culture” and the ubiquity of cultural contact in contemporary societies, this article reflects on the representation of cultural contact in three French language novels: Pas Pleurer (2014) by Lydie Salvayre, Allah n’est pas obligé (2000) by Ahmadou Kurouma, and Hiver à Sokcho (2016) by Elisa Shua Dusapin. Salvayre, a renowned French writer whose mother tongue is Spanish, portrays the contact between French and Spanish cultures as a harmonious coexistence. The Ivorian novelist Kourouma, on the other hand, depicts cultural contact as a confrontation of two contrasting cultures: the central and seemingly superior French culture, and the peripheral and exotic Malinké culture. Marked by this biculturality, Kourouma makes no secret of his problematic relationship with the French language and culture and bases the structure of his novel on a confrontation of cultures. The Franco-Swiss author Elisa Shua Dusapin sees the contact between two different cultures, French and South Korean, as a devastating and threatening shock, which ultimately turns out to be enriching. The three authors reject both the hierarchisation of cultures and a black-and-white vision of the world. Their respective texts, imbued with a wide range of culturemes, are both pleasing and instructive: they transmit unconceptualized knowledge and thus justify the cultural and social significance of literature.
Contact between cultures: co-existence, confrontation, shock. Building on the broad meaning of the word “culture” and the ubiquity of cultural contact in contemporary societies, this article reflects on the representation of cultural contact in three French language novels: Pas Pleurer (2014) by Lydie Salvayre, Allah n’est pas obligé (2000) by Ahmadou Kurouma, and Hiver à Sokcho (2016) by Elisa Shua Dusapin. Salvayre, a renowned French writer whose mother tongue is Spanish, portrays the contact between French and Spanish cultures as a harmonious coexistence. The Ivorian novelist Kourouma, on the other hand, depicts cultural contact as a confrontation of two contrasting cultures: the central and seemingly superior French culture, and the peripheral and exotic Malinké culture. Marked by this biculturality, Kourouma makes no secret of his problematic relationship with the French language and culture and bases the structure of his novel on a confrontation of cultures. The Franco-Swiss author Elisa Shua Dusapin sees the contact between two different cultures, French and South Korean, as a devastating and threatening shock, which ultimately turns out to be enriching. The three authors reject both the hierarchisation of cultures and a black-and-white vision of the world. Their respective texts, imbued with a wide range of culturemes, are both pleasing and instructive: they transmit unconceptualized knowledge and thus justify the cultural and social significance of literature.
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kultura, člověk a společnost
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Contact. Cultures. Représentation. Pas Pleurer. Allah n’est pas obligé. Hiver à Sokcho., Contact. Culture. Representation. Pas Pleurer. Allah n’est pas obligé. Hiver à Sokcho., kultura, kontakt, reprezentace
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10.15452/SR.2024.24.0011
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CC BY-NC 4.0
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Studia Romanistica 24(2), 2024, 43-57