Hybridity and deconstruction speech of Felix Houphouët-Boigny’s myth in Patrick Grainville’s novel ‘Le tyran éternel’
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https://doi.org/10.7203/HYBRIDA.4.24005Keywords:
biography, political-heroic myth, Houphouët-Boigny, isotopy, imagology
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In the novel Le tyran éternel, written by French novelist Patrick Grainville, two enunciator-observers display two radically opposed discourses on the political-heroic myth of Félix Houphouët-Boigny. On the one hand, the fictional writer Sylvanus Adé sets forth the “word-fantasies” of Yamoussoukro and the Albinos respectively with the isotopies of perverted hybridization and of love. On the other hand, Houphouët-Boigny introduces the same notions on the respective isotopies of perfect hybridity and hatred. This contrast in perception betrays the author’s desire to deconstruct the myth of Félix Houphouët-Boigny. This deconstruction is divided into three phases: the reproduction of the Houphouët-Boigny myth, biographical distortion, and the production of a substitute myth, in this case the myth of the Albino.
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Severin N'Gatta, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny de Cocody-Abidjan
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