Exotisme et conscience culturelle dans l'oeuvre d'Ingeborg Bachmann
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Abstract EN:
The analysis of the representation of foreign worlds in ingeborg bachmann's literary works reveals an exotistic projection of the aspiration that the individual develops in the conflict between existential needs and the reality of the social and political world - a conflict that lies at the heart of the author's philosophical concept of utopian thinking. Because of the social and political implications involved in bachmann's perception of (especially foreign) reality, the literary form of the dialectic relationship which exists between the experience of the annihilation of the individual and the search for individual identity allows a discussion of the role of cultural difference in her writing as well as in her concept of literatur. The social an historical references, for instance, which underlie bachmann's critical view of culture in term of the constellation africa europe, define the inter-cultural dimension that the confrontation of two models of society implies in her works. Bachmann's treatment of the problems of the self and of difference are discussed in the light of the clash between the western world and africa in order to reflect on the conditions which determine the encounter of cultures. The discussion highlights the phenomenon of alienation and the necessity to affirm cultural identity so as to underline the essential value of historical awareness as an indispensable condition of the understanding of the forces at work in the encounter between cultures.
Abstract FR:
L'analyse de la creation litteraire d'ingeborg bachmann sous l'angle de l'exotisme revele une projection des desirs de l'individu dans des univers etrangers face au conflit entre ses aspirations existentielles et les realites socio-politiques, un conflit qui determine la conception philosophique d'une utopie. Consideree en correlation avec les implications socio-politiques de la perception des realites - surtout etrangeres - depeintes dans l'oeuvre, la stylisation de la relation dialectique entre l'experience de la negation de l'individualite et la recherche de l'identite propre permet d'evaluer la perception de l'autre dans la conception poetologique et l'ecriture de l'auteur. Les references sociale et historiques, qui sous-tendent la critique de civilisation fondee sur une constellation afrique europe, par exemple, definissent la dimension interculturelle d'une confrontation de deux modeles de societe. Cette observation de soi et de l'autre donne l'occasion, a la lumiere de la confrontation du monde occidental au monde africain, de reflechir sur les rapports qui ont determine cette rencontre de cultures en mettant l'accent sur le phenomene d'alienation et la necessite d'une affirmation de l'identite culturelle, afin de degager la valeur essentielle d'une conscience historique indispensable a la realisation des conditions primaires d'une rencontre culturelle.