La renaissance des représentations sur la femme en Afrique contemporaine. De la posture victimaire à l’héroïne dans les productions discursives et artistiques en RD Congo
The renaissance of representations of women in contemporary Africa. From the victim's posture to the heroine in discursive and artistic productions in DR Congo

Summary/Abstract: Africa is fundamentally a patriarchal society. And the social discourses circulating in this continent underline representations with very demeaning negative stereotypes towards the women. This is, indeed, a behavioral and linguistic credo that has long frozen women in a victimwood posture. Today, the situation is shifting towards a certain renewal of this a priori sexist collective imagination. The challenge is to build a heroine posture that now represents women as the pillar of Africa’s socio-economic development in the dynamics of contemporary sustainable development goals. Thus, this study analyzes through a diversified corpus which takes into account both paremic orality, literary production and ordinary discourse, the socio-discursive mechanisms of this discourse of societal issues in a rapidly changing RD Congo.

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