French Literature Reviews - 2026

C. Damégo-Mandeu, Le Verbe et le discours politique  dans Un fusil à la main, un poème dans la poche d'Emmanuel Dongala
Francophone and Oral Literatures

Camille Damégo-Mandeu, Le Verbe et le discours politique in Un fusil à la main, un poème dans la poche by Emmanuel Dongala

Paris: L'Harmattan, coll. "Approches littéraires", 84 p.

EAN 9782296556973

12.00 EUR

Publisher's overview:

In his novel, Un fusil dans la main, un poème dans la poche, Emmanuel Dongala portrays the struggles of an African intellectual returning to his homeland to join the people in an armed revolutionary struggle. Reality falls far short of the dream, and the path to the people's liberation proves long and perilous.

Camille Damégo-Mandeu is Secretary-General of the University of Bangui. He is a literary critic, comparatist, and essayist.

Emmanuel Dongala's fiction frequently engages with the complexities of post-colonial political life, the dilemmas of the African intellectual, and the often harsh realities of revolutionary movements. Within the broader tradition of Francophone African literature, narrative works exploring armed struggle and disillusionment often interrogate the intersection between idealistic political discourse and practical outcomes. Critical studies addressing these texts typically focus on how language and rhetoric are deployed to represent ideological commitments and their subsequent fractures.

Camille Damégo-Mandeu, Secretary-General of the University of Bangui, literary critic, comparatist, and essayist, examines political discourse in Un fusil à la main, un poème dans la poche by Emmanuel Dongala. Readers interested in contemporary Francophone narrative and the critical analysis of political discourse in African fiction may find this study relevant to their inquiries into the genre.