Dictature à l’envers : le discours satirique dans La revanche de Bozambo de Bertène Juminer

Abstract

The paper aims to shed light on Bertène Juminer’s novel Bozambo’s Revenge, in which the world is inverted: the Baoulian Republic (Africa) has colonized the Western Baoulian Europe (France) and black people are the ruling class. Juminer portrays commonly held assumptions about the political and economic order by means of bitter irony. Humour and satire are omnipresent in the plot, characters, language and style. The article demonstates that the novel, embedded as it is in political science fi ction, is not purely comical and can be interpreted in terms of social critique.