Les mortes aussi soulèvent le monde : Douce Dibondo fait danser le deuil

Douce Dibondo’s Le Mouvement (Rivages) explores grief, diaspora, and political consciousness through the spectral presence of Kaya, who dies but continues communicating with her twin sister Kem from beyond. The narrative spirals nonlinearly across locations—Congo, France, Berlin—connecting intimate loss to collective struggle, oscillating between personal memory and political testimony. Dibondo merges the domestic and the street, using fragmentary chronology and embodied language to articulate how mourning becomes activist practice. The work engages with post-colonial consciousness, queer intimacy, and the persistence of the dead within living solidarity, blending lyrical intensity with manifesto-adjacent rhetoric. Published by Rivages, it represents contemporary francophone literature intervening in questions of haunting, kinship, and resistance.

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