Le stéréotype du corps carcéral dans Allah n’est pas obligé : Trajet isotopique, symbolique et valeur stylistique

The Stereotype Of The Prison Body In Allah Is Not Obliged: Isotopic, Symbolic Path And Stylistic Value

Abstract

Considering that the stereotype is a consideration of semiology, even of the construction of
powerfully expressive meaning, which connects social life, its constituent signs and their specific articulations
(Amossy, 1991: 9), this contribution questions the praxis of prison space as a stereotype, through the stylistic
functioning of the isotopia of the prison in Amadou Kourouma's Allah is not obligated. The body, of course, as
a major thematic journey in this work, is the first discourse-statement constituting the deployment of the
prison space (Andrieu & Boëtsch, 2008). Iterative semantic content, isotopia also accounts for the divergence
and congruence of the figures of imprisonment as systematic, stylistic and symbolic units of meaning in a
stereotypical construction perspective. These include hostage taking, the sanction-amputation-execution
triptych, nudity/rape and enlistment.