Langage obscène et injurieux dans La Voyeuse interdite de N. Bouraoui et C’est le soleil qui m’a brûlée de C. Beyala

Abstract

Sexuality is a very popular theme in African literature in general. Strongly linked to other themes like patriarchy, female emancipation, male domination, etc., sexuality translates the gender conflict in women and men and betrays male ideology in African societies. Sexuality in the corpus chosen for our study: C’est le soleil qui m’a brûlée by Calixthe Beyala and La Voyeuse interdite by Nina Bouraoui, is intimately linked to the writing project of these authors who chose to opt for obscene language and insults in order to show to what extent man reduces woman to a simple sexual object and in order to adopt a position of counterattack in the concern to reduce man to his sexual organ. Obscene language then becomes a means of proclaiming the freedom of women. The authors also use this shocking language to awaken readers’ awareness of the urgent need to establish a balance in the relationship between women and men. Reading the obscene and offensive language throughout the two African novels submitted for study will allow us to see how the authors portray sexual scenes without retouching and constantly put them back into their ideological and social framework.