Paradis perdu et champs verdoyants : figures de l’utopie dans la pensée de Léopold Sédar Senghor
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2021
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Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Wydawnictwo Werset
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Léopold Sédar Senghor était un penseur et poète de la Négritude, et il était aussi un homme politique, député à l’Assemblée nationale française dans un contexte où la décolonisation était inéluctable. Avec le soutien théorique de Paul Ricœur, cet article explore l’utopie chez Senghor pour réfléchir à la fonction qu’occupent ces lieux irréels dans sa pensée et restaurer la vision de l’avenir qui était la sienne. Figures de son eutopia, tant le Royaume du Sine que la France Confédérée se proposaient comme communautés harmonieuses à l’aune desquelles imaginer l’avenir. Si Senghor ne défie pas l’idéologie coloniale avec une utopie conservatrice, où le Royaume du Sine retrouverait sa forme ancienne, mais bien avec celle d’une France décolonisée parce que fédérale, où il existerait une égalité de droits politiques, civiques et sociaux entre membres de cet État plurinational, la question de savoir s’il était utopiste demeure.
Léopold Sédar Senghor was a thinker and poet of Négritude, and also a politician, a member of the French National Assembly in the context where decolonization was inevitable. With the theoretical support of Paul Ricœur, this article explores Senghor's utopia in order to reflect on the function of these unreal places in his thought and to restore his vision of the future. Both the Kingdom of the Sine and Confederate France – the figures of his eutopia – were presented as harmonious communities by which to imagine the future. If Senghor does not challenge colonial ideology with a conservative utopia, where the Kingdom of the Sine would regain its ancient form, but with that of a federal thus decolonized France, where equality of political, civic and social rights between members of a plurinational state would obtain, the question of knowing if he was a utopian remains.
Léopold Sédar Senghor was a thinker and poet of Négritude, and also a politician, a member of the French National Assembly in the context where decolonization was inevitable. With the theoretical support of Paul Ricœur, this article explores Senghor's utopia in order to reflect on the function of these unreal places in his thought and to restore his vision of the future. Both the Kingdom of the Sine and Confederate France – the figures of his eutopia – were presented as harmonious communities by which to imagine the future. If Senghor does not challenge colonial ideology with a conservative utopia, where the Kingdom of the Sine would regain its ancient form, but with that of a federal thus decolonized France, where equality of political, civic and social rights between members of a plurinational state would obtain, the question of knowing if he was a utopian remains.
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Léopold Sédar Senghor, Paul Ricœur, République fédérale française, décolonisation, Afrotopia, French Federal Republic, decolonization
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"Quêtes littéraires" 2021, nº 11, s. 147-157