Droit de cité: représentations de Paris et expériences de l'altérité dans Le syndrome d'Ulysse de Santiago Gamboa et Black Bazar d'Alain Mabanckou
This memoir aims to show how Santiago Gamboa’s Le syndrome d’Ulysse (2005) and Alain Mabanckou’s Black Bazar (2009) contribute, each in their own way, to the development of a "new narrative identity" of Paris (Régine Robin) through the description of the socio-cultural alterity experienced by the depicted characters. Both novels present "foreigners" who live in Paris and have a different perception of the cultural codes, conceptions of history and social practices prevailing in their new home town. If their situation leads them to take a critical look at these codes and practices, it also often confines them to the margins of society and underlines the communities' worrying tendency to isolate themselves from one another. Situated in the field of sociocriticism, this study explores the various rhetorical, narratological and semiotic processes by which these texts criticize or reject different discourses proposing problematic conceptions of social life that oppose, ignore or compete with each other.
Paris Alain Mabanckou Santiago Gamboa Black Bazar literature sociocriticism city