La corporalité fantastique bugulienne dans le contexte de la mondialisation
Bugulian Fantastic Corporality in the Context of Globalization

Summary/Abstract: Located on the borders of tragic reality and imagination, the fantastic in the novels of Ken Bugul – Riwan ou le chemin de sable [Riwan orthe Sand Road] (1999), La Folie et la Mort [Madness and Death] (2000) and De l’autre côté du regard [On the Other Side of the Gaze] (2003) – inscribes the heroine’s quest in a tragic and spiritual journey whose goal is to reconquer her lost identity. The fantastic is here analyzed from the point of view of the woman’s body, seen as a foundation of the traditional values and as a reflection of the drama entailed by the destructuring effect of modernity in its relations to the traditional and urban environments. The transition from village to city is symbolized by the mutations suffered by the female body – object to desire and violence, full of meanings and a space of contradictions. This article attempts to show that Ken Bugul’s fantasy novel represents a double– aesthetic and hermeneutical – enterprise placed on the borders of narrative and poetry, which aims to rehabilitate an authentic imagination, stripped of the flaws of globalization.

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