The Aesthetics of the Sublimation of the Fallen Hero

In Je vois du soleil dans tes yeux by Nathalie Etoke

Résumé

“The aesthetics of the sublimation of a deprived hero in Je vois du soleil dans tes yeux by Nathalie Etoke” is our research topic. This topic focuses on an essential question: the status of the hero in Etoke’s novel. This preoccupation is in accordance with the general objective followed-up in our work which consists in showing that the hero of the novel, albeit being deprived of his privileges and rights, is endowed with ethical and excellence values which establish him as a social model. By means of the Mitterandian sociocritic approach together with Philippe Hamon’s semiotic theory on the character, our demonstration made us achieve this goal. Henceforth, it is established, from the figurative point of view, that the hero is endowed with a laudatory semiologic status. From the narrative angle, literary devices found in the text are in compliance with the ideals of the hero in his political fight. From the ideological perspective, it is proved that the hero acts not only for the reification of the socio-historical conditions at the basis of the novel creation, but also for a socio-politico-literary renewal which is in contradiction with the pre-established order