Repenser les Fragments d’Ayi Kwei Armah : analyse stylistique du corpus avec Wmatrix
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https://doi.org/10.17533/udea.ikala.352656Mots-clés :
Ayi Kwei Armah, Fragments, narration, thématisation, WmatrixRésumé
Les nombreuses explorations littéraires des romans d’Ayi Kwei Armah révèlent sa créativité esthétique et sa pertinence dans le traitement des questions africaines et diasporiques d’actualité aujourd’hui. Guidée par deux objectifs, cette étude de corpus a pour but d’analyser la narration et la thématisation du roman Fragments (1970) d’Armah à l’aide d’étiquettes de parties de discours et de domaines sémantiques en utilisant Wmatrix. Nous avons comparé Fragments comme le corpus cible avec deux autres romans d’Armah. Les résultats de l’analyse suggèrent qu’Armah alterne entre une narration homodiégétique dans les dialogues des personnages et les monologues, qui dominent la narration discursive hétérodiégétique principale. Il offre également une perspective critique sur l’immédiateté d’un présent historique et instantané en donnant un récit passé spécifique qui projette une continuité possible des événements au Ghana et en Afrique. En outre, Armah aborde la mobilité géographique des personnages comme une métaphore de la quête d’un lieu d’existence et d’une identité. Ces résultats illustrent la valeur de l’application d’outils informatiques tels que Wmatrix pour examiner les textes littéraires africains et fournissent une base pour des études plus approfondies.
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