Abstract:
This research, entitled "Mes Hommes à Moi de Ken Bugul : mise en scène de soi ou
retour difficile aux sources d‟une enfant prodigue ?", analyses Ken Bugul's novel as a
rewriting of the life of the author. The central problem of the work is to establish the
relationship between the content of this fiction and the real prodigal life of the writer.
The study also aimed to show how, after a life of disorder and debauchery, the
narrator pulled herself together and tried to return to her biological roots in order to
re-establish links with her African culture. Inspired by sociocriticism and
psychoanalytical criticism, this study has shown, in the light of some previous works,
how this novel can be considered an autobiography and how, after becoming aware of
her alienation, the author decides to return to her roots. The analysis revealed some of
the consequences of European culture (so much adulated) on Africans, which are the
causes of the narrator's life of prodigality and uprooting, taken as a symbol of the
African woman and even of the African in general. However, attempts at recuperation
have so far been unsuccessful. The study therefore invites Africans to return to their
roots and embrace their cultures.
Description:
A Thesis in the Department of French Education,
Faculty of Foreign Languages Education
Submitted to the School of
Graduate Studies, In Partial Fulfilment
of the Requirements for the Award of
Master of Philosophy (French Education)
At the University of Education, Winneba
