DEFINITIONAL AND AESTHETIC PROBLEMATIC OF FRANCOPHONE AFRICAN LITERATURE OF IMMIGRATION

An African literature of immigration has developed in France in the last twenty years. This literature is a means of translating ways of existance on the fringe of collective norms into the imaginary. Thus, notions like hybridism, crossbreeding, migritude, or specific terms like negropolitan or French-African, are thriving in African or Africanist criticism slang. Our aim is to examine this literature, taking a few representative novels, in order to illuminate, through a descriptive approach, its major poetic elements.