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Abstract

In the digital age, new literary forms are emerging within the post-modernist novel, particularly in french. The latter, whose aesthetic and formal construction, increasingly draws on media or artistic motifs that orient literary writing towards new aesthetic and discursive practices that break with structuralist formalism, most often based on the classic narrative schema of Julien Greimas or the actantial schema of Vladimir Propp. Thus, we are talking today about the interdisciplinary or polydisciplinary, hydrid or transcultural text, wich integrates paraliterary motifs such as the media with the aim of creating a new “vision of the world” based on exchange and interculturality; also to produce a scenography adaptable to cinema, screenplay, comics, etc., and permeable to several interpretations. Indeed, this contribution is based on the observation of the abundant intermediality in contemporary African productions (artistic, literary). Taking the example of the novel Le Ventre de l’Atlantique by Fatou Dioma, the study is based on the intermedial approach which focuses on the way in wich television is integrated into the architecture of this word in order to finally highlight the issues that lie in the cohabitation between literature and media supports that participate in the construction of the novel and constitute a central element in the quest for an identity in crisis. In doing so, television in the novel in question “reconnects” the migrant character of Fatou Diome to her origins while allowing her to mark her anchoring in her adopted land.

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