L'inscription des genres et de l'intertexte dans Les Bergères de l'apocalypse de Françoise d'Eaubonne
Les Bergères de l'apocalypse is the story of the protagonist Ariane who plans to rewrite, in the sidelines of the official discourse, the events that led to the creation of a gynocentric society. In the variety of concerns that fuel this utopian vision of society meets a generic indeterminacy that makes it difficult to classify. Featuring an ideal society which turns out no to be one (as women after the extermination of men have reproduced some structures of patriarchal power), the book can't be identified solely as a science fiction novel since it borrows both the essay, the feminist utopia and the apocalyptic narrative. This hybridization appears as one of the features of this book that multiplies the narrative techniques and narratives in a setting where intertextuality plays an important role. The hypothesis that I propose to explain such generic explosion is that the novel represents a shape conforming to the complexity of the proposals made to the feminist discourse of the seventies. With the mix of genres and discourses, the author, through Ariane, manages to communicate with a variety variety of intertexts whose original and dense counterpoint could only confuse the reader. To analyze the novel, I will observe how the book exploits the potential of generic in his form, narrative techniques, their links with ecofeminists motifs, as well as the inscription of different discourses.
Genericity Intertextuality Apocalyptic narratives Feminism