Mes hommes a moi de ken bugul mise en scene de soi ou retour difficile aux sources d’une enfant prodigue

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.