Orality, an evidence of a new writing tendency in The porcupine memories by Alan Mabanckou.

Abstract

This article targets to prove that oral writing can be adapted to novel writing and give it a particular tune contributing to the creation of a new aesthetic dimension named postmodernism. We in that way propose a postmodern reading of a novel of Alan Mabanckou, Porcupine memories, in emphasizing ourselves essentially on tools of oral genre in full estime in the novel. In reading the novel, we fill impressed by the marvelous behind the presence of an animal, the porcupine, that express itself in human language, we have to also take on account the presence of a baobab tree that listens to it and then receives its confidences. Thus does orality strenghten novel narrating and by the person who narrates we can in this perspective talk about an « epical novel » according to Maurice Bandaman. With this marvelous aspect, the narration is an occasion, for the author, to bring a strong judgement on men and thiers societies.