L'image de la femme en ses métamorphoses - Écritures subsahariennes de langue française (1950-2010)
Images of Women. African Literature in French (1950-2010)

Summary/Abstract: A return to sensible reason and the acknowledging of the impact of the imaginary are manifest in the Western thought of the turn of the century (encapsulated in the theories of Gilbert Durand and Jean-Jacques Wunenburger, among other). In the ex-centric Francophone literatures of Western and Central Africa, the images of the woman, with their powerful symbolical load, change in time. The existing variations correspond to the given historical circumstances: the coming out of the colonisation process, at the end of the trials undergone by the countries in the periods ensuing the gaining of their national independence; the crises and fratracide wars that were soon to follow. The seduction of the represenation of the female body undergoes changes illustrative of the notion of “plural beauty.” Renewed many times over – a process which strengthened their aesthetic worth – images correspond to synthetic, schizomorphous, and mystical regimens, making room for the emergence of new forces.

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