Interstices : l’imaginaire plurilingue de l’écrivain congolais In Koli Jean Bofa

The writer In Koli Jean Bofane, born in Congo in 1954, is the author of three novels published by Actes Sud: Mathématiques congolaises (2008), Congo Inc. Le Testament de Bismarck (2014), and La Belle de Casa (2018). In our essay we have analysed this work from the angle of plurilingualism and linguistic imagination and we have studied the strategies used to stage linguistic heterogeneity. Within the framework of the multiform plurilingualism that has always characterised Belgian culture in general, and its literary polysystem in particular, we wanted to highlight the possible cross-fertilisation between the « irréguliers de la belgité » with one of the most interesting voices of Belgian postcolonisation.