Exceptionally, the last seminar will take place on a Friday.
Abstract
In sub-Saharan Africa, authors' rights were granted to " invented subject ", in colonial times, according to the European Romantic standard of the 19th century. We have progressively moved from the author at the service of God, of the City, to the author at the service of himself (Edelman 2004). Whatever the case, the author is rooted in an economy, a society and a history of his own. How is this character and his rights developing elsewhere ? Already the subject of passionate debate at home (Foucault 1994, Edelman 2004, Rahmantian 2011, Barber 1991, Diawara 2011), the author emerges first in ex-colonies, as a writer. Once the " black box " (Latour 1999) has been stripped down to its bare essentials, called author, authoress or author, what remains of it when its congeners, producers of oral texts, invade the scene ? How do they cope with two major phenomena: the transformation of one's own creation into a product that can be appropriated by others, under the watchful eye of the state, which is trying to legislate.
