ISSUES OF SEMIOTIC INTERPRETATION OF AFRICAN LITERATURE

Abstract

The review presents the results of the international round table On the Semiotics of Forms in African Literature, which was held on July 19, 2023 as part of the Festival of African Cultures at the Russian State Library for Foreign Literature named after M.I. Rudomino. The discussion was organized by the International Center for Semiotics and Intercultural Dialogue of the State Academic University for the Humanities (MTСS GAUGN) in cooperation with the Cultural Center Francothèque of the Russian State Library for Foreign Literature. The discussion was attended by Georice Berthin Madébé, Doctor of Linguistics and Semiotics, Leading Researcher at the National Center for Scientific and Technological Research of Gabon (Libreville), and Inna Merkoulova, Doctor of Linguistics and Semiotics, Associate Professor, founder and director of the GAUGN International Center for Semiotics and Intercultural Dialogue (Moscow). The participants discussed Professor Madebe’s book On the Semiotics of Forms. An Introduction to Semiotic Criticism of African Literature (2022).