Poétiques de la violence et récits francophones contemporains (Chiasma, 39) (French Edition)

Face a la surenchere des representations mediatiques, artistiques et iconographiques de la violence, en quoi consiste le contre-discours qu articulent les litteratures francophones emergentes pour penser les violences du monde contemporain ? En adoptant une approche comparatiste et largement interdisciplinaire, mettant en evidence le travail esthetique et l engagement ethique d ecrivains issus d aires geographiques diverses, Emmanuel Bruno Jean-Francois tente, dans Poetiques de la violence et recits francophones contemporains, de repondre a cette question en mettant en dialogue des recits qui, au constat d une representation en crise, d une banalisation et d un etalage de la violence, procedent d un effet de rupture pour mettre en scene l irrepresentable. En explorant les contours de ces poetiques plurielles de la violence en contexte francophone et postcolonial, cette etude nous invite a une lecture transnationale des enjeux thematiques, ethiques et esthetiques qu elles soulevent. 
In his comparative interdisciplinary study, Poetiques de la violence et recits francophones contemporains, Emmanuel Bruno Jean-Francois examines what constitutes the counter-discourse that emerging Francophone literatures articulate to think through the dynamics of violence in our contemporary world in view of the proliferation of artistic, iconographic and media representations of violence effecting our perception of our environment. In the context of the trivialization of violence, and the crisis of representation that this phenomenon produces, he underscores both the aesthetic and ethical engagement of writers from a wide range of geographical regions, by bringing together literary texts that develop a new poetics of violence, characterized by a break in the aesthetic values usually associated with the unrepresentable. By exploring the stylistic, historical and thematic contours of these Francophone and postcolonial texts, his study invites us to better understand the thematic, aesthetic and ethic issues they raise.