Otherness and exclusion in De purs hommes by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

Abstract

     In the current global context and with the increasing number of debates around gender issues, literature offers a wide area of reflexion on the question of sexual identities. This paper proposes an analysis of the highlighting of “non-standard” sexualities and the process of exclusion due to sexual otherness in Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s novel De purs hommes. It is a fiction that examines the existence of sexual minorities within a hostile and discriminatory heterosexist system, inviting to rethink the relationship between these communities and the rest of the society. Here, it is a question of demonstrating the treatment of the theme of homosexuality and the social exclusion that results from it.