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Makombo Bamboté and the Search for a New Discourse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2014

Jonathan Ngaté
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In her remarks on Makombo Bamboté's novel in the Dictionnaire des oeuvres littéraires négro-africaines de languefrançaise, des origines à 1978 (1983), and going back to opinions already expressed in her African Literature in French (1976), Dorothy Blair points out that “Princesse Mandapu reveals a disquieting, hermetic, and at times oneiric action, which advances by fits and starts, on the strength of a jerky, elliptical, half-familiar and half-poetic style. It's up to the reader to fill in the gaps, to find out transitions and to interpret silences” (1983: 468). This essay proposes a possible way of “filling in the gaps” and “interpreting silences” after having made what I, as a Centrafrican reader and also a student of African literatures, have to assume are correct guesses about transitions in Bambote's novel.

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African Studies Review , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , March 1986 , pp. 12 - 28
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1986

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