L’oubli de la complexité et la mémoire de l’essence : représentations des ethnies Hutu et Tutsi après les indépendances

Abstract

"This article examines the characteristics of the Africanist ideology in the novel Afrique, afrique (Marchal, 1983). In the first part, it addresses how this ideology understood Central Africa, namely by reducing the complexity of reality to a few general characteristics. Then it examines how the post-independence expressions of the Africanist Text rely on metonymy and overgeneralization as a way of describing the main ethnicities of Rwanda and Burundi. This is ultimately to highlight that regardless of their institutional status, symbolic goods written after independence reproduce colonial knowledge without questioning it, like in de Villiers’s SAS broie du noir (1967) and Hatzfeld’s La Stratégie des antilopes (2007)."