Ivorian textoliterature: a popular writing of self and others

Abstract

Abstract: Textoliterature refers to one type of message texts produced outside the normal SMS conversation. As such, they do not serve to inform but to entertain, report, instruct or give hope through short poems, short stories or short dialogued texts. Mobile phone, offering a writing instrument through the short messaging system, has also become a creative writing space open to everything and everyone in Ivory Coast. As casual literature embedded in the daily life, textoliterature expresses massively in oral language, reflecting in a more realistic still the daily life of Ivoirians within the general framework of a popular writing of the collective itself.