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La poésie camerounaise de langue française : évolution de l'écriture des origines à nos jours : essai d'analyse stylistique

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Auteur / Autrice : Patrice Kayo
Direction : Jeanne-Lydie Goré
Type : Thèse de doctorat
Discipline(s) : Littérature française
Date : Soutenance en 1995
Etablissement(s) : Paris 4

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Far from being static and monotonous, Cameroonian poetry has profoundly changed in the course of the years. From 1920 to 1950, the poets were largely influenced by French classical and romantic authors. They used regular rhythms and rime schemes, wrote alexandrine lines and sonnets, etc. Their favourite topics were love, dream, nature, solitude etc. But the following generation (1950-1960) reacted strongly against that writing style. They adopted a new style, that of the negritude movement : free verse, no regular rhythms, no rime schemes, etc. But their ultimate goal was the liberation of the country as a whole. That is why the content of their works was mainly the fight against colonialism. After independence, the poets notice that both at the social and political levels, nothing has really changed. Misery and oppression are more cruel than ever. Consequently most authors change their target. They forget about colonisation and start shooting at the new political masters, their own brothers. That subversive writing style leads to a fundamental renewal of the poetic language. About the future prospects of that poetry, we can say that subversion will continue to inspire the authors, as long as the government rules the country on the basis of oppression, dictatorship, the violation of liberties and other human rights, which creates or worsens social misery.