De la bipolarité spatiale comme expression du cosmopolitisme dans "Ich bin ein Black Berliner" de Jones Kwesi Evans et "L’impasse‘ de Daniel Biyaoula

• Autores: Romuald Valentin Nkouda Sopgui
• Localización: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift, ISSN 0016-8904, Vol. 66, Nº. 3, 2016, págs. 329-346
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • Current debates about the contemporary African identity, with regard to the production of knowledge and the role of the creative imagination in the process of the globalization, attempt to overcome the mythologies of Panafricanism and Afrocentrism. More and more, a younger generation of African migrant writers is beginning to question those ideologies and to recover alternative narratives of African identity in search of a “hermeneutics of redemption”. In their writings, the idea of Afropolitanism, as new form of African cosmopolitanism, constitutes a significant attempt to rethink African identity outside the trope of difference and isolation. This article analyses, through the novels ‚Ich bin Black Berliner‘ of the German-Ghanaian writer Jones Kwesi Evans and ‚L’impasse‘ of the Congolese Daniel Biyaoula, the features of that new phenomenology of Africanness. The writers show their desire to think of African identities as both rooted in specific local geographies but also transcendental of them. Finally, the African cosmopolitanism, which is to be connected to knowable African communities, nations, and traditions; but also to live a life divided across cultures, languages, and states, emerges in opposition to the utopian universalism of the eighteen century.