La vie nue des petites filles : à la lisière du monde masculin dans Tropique de la violence de Nathacha Appan

Abstract

This article aims at reading the novel Tropique de la violence, by the francophone IndoMauritian writer Nathacha Appanah, in the light of the notion of «bare life» developped by Giorgio Agamben in his study on the state of exception. This perspective in based on the fact that the novel is about the way of life of abandoned foreign minors in Mayotte, in the context that the novel is about the way of life of abandoned foreign minors in Mayotte, in the context that the novel is about the way of life of abandoned foreign minors in Mayotte, in the context I will examine the role of the female secondary characters and argue that Tropique de la violence allows us to revisit the notion of bare life under the criteria of age and gender.