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July 13, 2026French StudiesOpen Access

Zonbi Anti-Ontology, Zonbi Ecology: Marie-Célie Agnant and Marie NDiaye beyond the Living

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PNPhilippe Néméh-Nombré

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Analyzes the anti-ontological frameworks in Agnant's and NDiaye's novels, suggesting a new way to view life and power.

Key Points

  • The aim is to explore how Agnant’s and NDiaye’s works create a zonbi ecology through anti-ontological perspectives on power.
  • Literary analysis of Le Livre d’Emma and La Femme changée en bûche
  • Examination of the aesthetic practice of éclatement
  • Discussion of relational networks in the context of Blackness and Black (non-)life.
  • Le Livre d’Emma and La Femme changée en bûche challenge the conventional categories of living and non-living.
  • Both novels reveal a hybrid relational network that transcends traditional ontological boundaries.
  • Agnant and NDiaye's narratives extend Glissant’s poetics of Relation beyond the typical living framework.

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Philippe Néméh-Nombré (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a5482a4475c38bf615a5d81https://doi.org/10.3828/fs.2026.80.3.8
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