Alterite Et Variations Culturelles Dans Et Yallah S'exila De Hadiza Sanoussi

Abstract The African continent, long the victim of several conquests, has integrated, willingly or unwillingly, visions and ways of life other than its own. From slavery to colonization to the slave trade, Africans have known and adhered to different cultures, so much so that hybridity seems to be one of their major characteristics. In the African novel in general and the Burkinabe novel in particular, the character is regularly confronted with this ambivalent cultural identity. Witness to a hybridization at the crossroads of two worlds, he has long faced deep identity crises. Even today, many people, especially writers, have this stereotypical vision of cultural ambivalence. What justifies this difficulty in accepting the other, with his vision, his difference? The present study aims to show that the dialogue of cultures, which was supposed to be a strength for living together, is today one of the reasons for separation and division within societies. We start from the premise that in Et Yallah s'exila by Hadiza Sanoussi, there are characters with altered and hybrid identities, and this confrontation between various cultures is an indicator of their fate and isolation. To better understand the plurality and cultural variation in this work, we invoke the ethnocriticism of literature to identify the issues related to the presence of several cultures in the society of the novel. This will allow us to show how the work goes beyond the simple observation of acculturation to stage the reconstruction and reinvention of new identity figures. Keywords: Otherness, cultural identity, ethnocriticism, hybridity, cultural variation.