L’expérience du corps et les représentations sensibles dans le roman africain
Bodily Experience and Sensory Representations in the African Novel

Summary/Abstract: The meditation on the body and the role of the bodily experience in the construction of knowledge make the object of many epistemic reflections. However, the question persists and literature is seizing upon it. Since always, writers have realized the description of the body through signs, for the body is the subject that ensures the significance ofthe world and its reproduction. Our article, entitled “Bodily Experience and Sensory Representations in the African Novel”, is intended as a contribution to the studies dedicated to the logic of the body and aims to grasp the discourses and practices of the body in African literature. In the novels here approached, the body never ceases to make sense and to designate a sign horizon. It bears the markers of a culture, of its social codes and rites, and, at the same time, it is the screen on which the most primitive traces are projected. Thus, based on Jacques Fontanille’s semiotics of passions (Greimas; Fontanille,1991), we attempt to grasp the written text and its links with the world of experience.

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