La vision coloniale Française chez Hergé dans les années 30, cas de l’album Tintin au Congo

Abstract FRE

Colonial writings represent Africa as a continent living in a total and continuous chaos naturally present in its societies.

This argument was in fact a source of legitimacy and credibility of the protective and paternalistic colonial project.

Through their writings, the French gave the image of a colony that is characterized by the war of ethnic groups, the historical backwardness, the dominance of tyranny and repression.

Colonial works magnified and idealized the French as a bearer of the values of modern civilization, and lowered the African by reducing it to primitive, strange and reactionary.

Tintin au Congo is a cartoon album very representative of the French colonial vision focused on the African.

The purpose of this study is to identify all the implicit messages, scriptural or imagery, contained in the album in order to clarify the colonial thought of Hergé who reduced the African to a state of being inferior to the French higher and civilized.

We will show through this study in addition some damage caused by the French in Congo.

The decryption of symbols, plates, vignettes and the content of the bubbles will be simultaneously linked to the French colonial history in Congo