La surconscience linguistique chez Léonora Miano

Born in Cameroon in a multilingual environment, Léonora Miano developed a highly advanced sensitivity to linguistic experience early on, which crystallized in her writing as a « linguistic hyperconsciousness » (Lise Gauvin, 1997). This article aims to show how linguistic awareness has led to a « heterolingualism » as a textualization of her linguistic plurality. As far as methodology is concerned, the theoretical framework used is mainly discourse analysis, as described by Jacqueline Authier-Revuz (1995), who developed an enunciative perspective on the notion of metalanguage. With regard to work on migrant literature in relation to language experience, the publications of Lise Gauvin (1999, 2007, 2023), Rainier Grutman (1997) and Myriam Suchet (2009, 2014) will be used in particular. Our corpus, by no means exhaustive, is digitized from 105 occurrences drawn from four novels and a short story. The corpus gathers texts that are marked by particular enunciative anchors. A common aim unites them all: Miano’s stance towards her language of expression.