Immigration et Émigration dans le ventre de l’Atlantique de Fatou Diome : les dessous pathétiques d’une odyssée à travers l’Afrique au Sud du Sahara.

Author

EMILE ANOH KABLAN, University of Tennesee, KnoxvilleFollow

Date of Award

5-2021

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Arts

Major

French

Major Professor

MARY McALPIN

Committee Members

RUDYARD J. ALCOCER, BRITTANY MURRAY

Abstract

The colossal effects on the modern world of Africa's awakening are critical events of our time. Over the years, Africa has been faced with horrific conditions, such as colonization, imperialism, and exploitation. This degradation continues to hold Africans in chains of suffering and humiliation. In 1980, the world population was 4.434 billion. In 2020, it was 7.799 billion. This considerable population growth has created other problems, notably unemployment, substandard living and environmental conditions, poverty, and other social challenges. Specifically, Africa’s population growth has created more threatening ailments, including famine. Africa also faces climate change’s dire consequences. Forests have had to give way to men. Urbanization has resulted in detrimental effects. Once fertile land has become barren due to acid rain resulting from industrialization or due to longer lasting droughts. This study examines the impact of immigration and emigration on African society in Fatou Diome’s Le Ventre de l’Atlantique. Diome’s novel introduces a universe unknown to earlier African immigrants. Obviously, as Seydou Badian observed, “Everything changes, and we have to live with our time.” For a long time, Africans emigrated to Europe and America without having any problem with post-colonialism’s economic and, especially, political realities, which require that much more attention be paid to borders because of the strategic establishment of a filtering system that not only targets Africans. This border control has left a bitter taste with Africans who have been victimized. Diome opens the door to this chaotic universe in her novel; this personified and hyperbolic title leaves no one indifferent to the issue of immigration.

Recommended Citation

KABLAN, EMILE ANOH, "Immigration et Émigration dans le ventre de l’Atlantique de Fatou Diome : les dessous pathétiques d’une odyssée à travers l’Afrique au Sud du Sahara.. " Master's Thesis, University of Tennessee, 2021.
https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/6206