Francophone Poetics in Tension: Intuition, Relation, and Exiguity from Senghor to Canadian Minority Voices
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article explores a dynamic comparative framework between African and Canadian Francophone literatures, focusing on Léopold Sédar Senghor’s poetics of intuition and its resonances with minority writing in Canada. By introducing the concept of co-poetics, the essay investigates the aesthetic interplay of rhythm, opacity, and marginality across postcolonial and diasporic contexts. Drawing on the philosophies of Bergson and Glissant, the article analyzes how authors such as Abla Farhoud, France Daigle, and Rodney Saint-Éloi engage with multilingualism, fragmented memory, and the tension between language and identity. Far from forming a unified vision, these literatures articulate dissonance as a creative force and exiguity as an epistemological stance. The result is a plurivocal “poetics of the edge” that redefines Francophone writing beyond national or linguistic centers. This article contributes to postcolonial literary theory by offering co-poetics as a conceptual tool to map intercultural resonances between African and Canadian literary margins. Keywords: Francophone literatures, Senghor, minority writing, co-poetics, exiguity, postcolonial theory DOI: 10.7176/JAAS/84-06 Publication date: July 31st 2025
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.035 | 0.030 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".