![]() ![]() It is a Butlerian constitutive border, an abject and unlivable space that guarantees the Subject’s privileged identity. ![]() A fracture zone serves as a sort of protective belt around the global Northern Subject. ![]() To the other side, it has become a deadly space that swallows up African lives. One manifestation of a fracture zone is the Mediterranean Sea which, at Europe’s behest, has become a space that is fluid and passible only to one side. Fracture zones are interstitial spaces where two elements come into violent contact but in which one element, the author and gatekeeper of this violent space, has all the power. In my dissertation I examine what I call “fracture zones” between France and Africa through literary analysis of novels by authors from across francophone Africa: Abdourahman Waberi, Aminata Sow Fall, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Ken Bugul, Léonora Miano and Nina Bouraoui. ![]()
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