TRACES ET ENONCES D'AUTRUI DANS LA PETITE FILLE DU REVERBERE DE CALIXTHE BEYALA

Calixthe Beyala a ete dans le temps accusee de plagiat. L’objet de ce travail est de determiner s’il y a encore des cas d’emprunt illegitime dans ce roman autoreferentiel. Seront donc etudies les phenomenes d’interpenetration, de dialogisme, de transtextualualite, de polyphonie et d’alteration qui caracterisent cette autofiction. Agent transcodeur, reformulateur et creolisant, la narratrice, double de l’auteure, use de diverses strategies discursives pour repenser, refuter et depasser les enonces d’autrui sans pour autant tomber dans l’illegitimite. Mots-cles : Beyala, plagiat, autrui, dialogisme, transtextualite, alteration, parasitisme litteraire, creolisation. Calixthe Beyala has in the past been accused of plagiarism. This article sets out to determine if Beyala is still guilty of illicit borrowing in her self-referential novel, La petite filled du reverbere. Theories on the interpenetration of lives, dialogism, transtextuality, polyphony and alterity will be invoked to study the phenomenon of heterogeneity at play in the novel. The paper concludes that as a transcoding, reformulating and creolizing agent, the narrator, who is the writer’s double, resorts to diverse legimate discursive strategies to rethink, refute and transcend the speech of others but steers clear of plagiarism. Keywords: Beyala, plagiarism, alterity, dialogism, transtextualite, alteration, literary parasitism, creolisation.