Sony labou tansi 5 july 1947 14 june 1995, born marcel ntsoni, was a congolese novelist, shortstory writer, playwright, and poet. Project muse dictatorship and the emptiness of the rhetoric. Sony labou tansi decrit une afrique fantasmagorique. Project muse dictatorship and the emptiness of the. Your digital library has changed, and youre almost ready to jump in. Tres rapidement il peut faire penser a 1984 dorwell ou note 3. Sony labou tansi congolese brazzaville writer britannica. Ne en 1947 au zaire, ancien professeur danglais, il netait pas. Life and a half, sony labou tansi s seminal 1979 novel finally available in english, more than three decades later. This is a fable, bitterly attacking african dictators and their brutality and is presumably based, at least in part, on mobutu sese seko, dictator of what was then zaire.
Topics germane to the historical experiences of slavery, colonialism, and neocolonialism have persistently. Josias semujanga telecharger le fichier original par emmanuel ndungutse universite nationale du rwanda licence en langue et litterature francaise 2001. His plays were staged in paris, dakar, and new york. Intertextualite et creation romanesque chez sony labou tansi. Published in french by revue acteursauteurs no83, september,acte sud. Mais son innovation, notamment dans le domaine romanesque, ne procede pas dune creation ex nihilo. Afrocentrism and afropessimism section of this article. Wendeler, catherine, the embodiment of wrath in two postcolonial prophecies. Williams sassine at the contemporary africa database. Though he was only 47 when he died, tansi remains one of the most prolific african writers and the most internationally renowned practitioner of the new african writing. Sony labou tansi, congolese writer born june 5, 1947, kimwanza, moyencongo. For many decades african literature has been a battleground of protest.
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