La perspective des personnes déplacées en littérature francophone

Abstract

This article is a thematic and stylistic analysis of the perspective of illegal immigrants portrayed by Jean-Baptiste Sourou in the Chronicle of a freezing summer: The Shipwrecked Dreamof Africans(2010) and by Fatou Diome in Those Who Wait(2013). To this end, the theory of Karl Marx and Engels proves adequate to demonstrate how migrants, like a lower class in literary society suffer and react at the hands of host countries. The subordinates, can they speak: is the problem around which this study is based. The objective of this communication is to underline the unbearable hardships and the hard tests experienced by the emigrant in the West. The originality of this work is that it is based on the juxtaposition of real and fictitious testimonies of illegal immigrants. This study concludes that African governments must provide resources to curb immigration to the West by Africans.