La Forêt : évanescence et régénération dans Divided we Stand, Survive the Peace de Cyprian Ekwensi et Sozaboy de Ken Saro-Wiwa

Abstract

This study, from sociocriticism and intertextuality, examines the theme of the forest in times of war in Survive the Peace and Divided we Stand by Ciprien Ekwensi, and Sozaboy by Ken Saro Wiwa whose writings emerge at the time of the civil war of Biafra in Nigeria. It results that, the forest is the center of the scene, refuge, and witness to the social confrontation and to the transgression of the rules, spectator of the debacle. The forest is an absurd border between temporary life and certain death, protector, regenerative matrix of memories. The forest witnesses the transformation of the soldier who aspires to freedom and peace by abandoning violence. It imposes silence, peace, and cures the harm caused to the body; it also means mourning. The forest is the place of meditative contemplation.