The Contemporary Hero in Sylvie Kandé’s Epic of Futurity, La Quête infinie de l’autre rive
Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: Sylvie Kandé’s Quête infinie de l’autre rive revives and transforms the genre of the heroic verse narrative. Rather than commemorating a foundational moment in a community’s constitution, Kandé’s epic instead constitutes an epic of futurity, which announces a project that it calls on the reader to complete; namely, the project of conceptualizing an authentic contemporary hero-figure. For Kandé, such a modern-day hero might be found in the clandestine migrant, but she provides only a glimpse of that hero’s emerging story. By orienting the epic toward the future rather than the past, Kandé instills the genre with new purpose and relevance.
Source: Journal of Narrative Theory
Author: Alexander Dickow
Language: French
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2911005308