L’écriture de la mémoire dans Souveraine magnifique d’Eugène Ebodé : une postulation de l’oubli et du vivre-ensemble
The Writing of Memory in Souveraine magnifique by Eugène Ebodé: A Postulation of Oblivion and Cohabitation

Summary/Abstract: The war between the Longs and the Shorts is the backdrop for Eugène Ebodé's Souveraine Magnifique. It is an eponymous story in which the narrator delves into the interstices of the outraged memory of a war survivor named Souveraine Magnifique. Now an orphan from the Long ethnic group, she painfully recalls the alarming circumstances of an atrocious war that sprang up between brothers of the same blood in the heart of a Rwanda ravaged by the throes of jealousy and unjustified hate. How does fictional literature script this genocidal war by focusing on the representation of a system of ethical values, such as forgetting, in order to postulate an ethical worldview? Through its two axes, the phenotext and the genotext, Edmond Cros's sociocriticism serves as a reading reference to answer this question. The study is organized into three points which revisit, firstly, the meaning of the chronotope which memorably frames the war scene. Secondly, the stylistic manoeuvres that allow us to visualize the aesthetic anchorage or literariness of the novel are examined. Finally, we question the significant clues that inscribe the novelist's argument in a dynamic of oblivion in order to postulate a humanist worldview.

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