This article focuses on organizational and functional mechanisms of the expression of immigration in the feminine francophone novel. It re-examines a subject often studied through an analytical framework inspired by social anthropology or the feminist model and that confine the interpretation of feminine texts to readings that are almost “unmovable”. However, the analysis of novels by Aminata Sow Fall and Fatou Diome uncovers an “ironic metafiction” that gives a different meaning to modern forms and to personal experiences of immigration by linking their textual performance to new narrative practices that are important to the construction and inscription of the novel’s meaning. Beginning with such an open space, this textual performance thwarts rigid critical and theoretical frontiers and overturns, in a carnivalesque atmosphere, strongly rooted social discourses.