The « Disturbing Literary » In the Novel of West African Immigration

Résumé

The richness of the novel of immigration lies not only in the framework of the quest for well-being by unhappy Africans who arrived in Europe and America by various means. It is also based on the aesthetics of this problem, which some describe as “disturbing literary”. What are the declensions and the profound meaning in the West African story? The socio-critical nature of Pierre Barbéris underlies this reflection. It is articulated in two axes, which also constitute the parts of our study: the explicit and the implicit. It is a question of seeing how the chosen authors aestheticize the theme of immigration in the West African novel through rhetoric and intergenericity.