Mille hourras pour l’âne ! La carnavalisation et l’anomalie comme tremplins de défigement stéréotypique chez Chawki Amari

A thousand cheers for the donkey! Carnavalization and anomaly as springboards for stereotypical distortion at Chawki Amari

Abstract

Chawki Amari’s aesthetic and ethical aim is to forge a radically altered vision of the world and of
human beings, for a figure as full of prejudice as the donkey. Interested by this singular linchpin of Amari's
diegesis, this article sets out to examine the scriptural strategies employed in order to disfigure a prevalent
stereotype. In an approach in which the phenomenon of carnivalisation and the manifestation of anomaly, as a
double departure from the official and the pre-constructed, are mutually illuminated and sustained, the
animal's incongruous reversibility embodies the challenge to the stereotyped pattern.