Frauenbilder in der frankophonen afrikanischen Literatur – Erfahrungen mit Exklusion und Selbstbehauptung von schwarzafrikanischen Frauenfiguren in französischsprachigen Texten "Le Ventre de l’Atlantique" und "Celles qui attendent" von Fatou Diome
Wilfreid Emmanuel Koung A Sanama
University of Erlangen-NürnbergAbstrakt
The present contribution is conceived as a proposal for greater promotion of empathy, sensitivity, and equality, as well as equal treatment for African women who are affected by social exclusion and discrimination in postcolonial African societies. With regard to the gender question in the African context, it also advocates for a stronger positioning and more intensive engagement with such fictions — specifically the three selected literary texts — within the Francophone and other foreign-language literary landscapes, without excluding other works of fiction.The study seeks to examine to what extent female characters from sub-Saharan Africa are affected by practices of marginalization and subalternity within patriarchal social structures, and which subjective and collective coping strategies they use to make their voices heard and assert themselves. At the center of this analysis, and through the selected literary texts, lies not only an exploration of the everyday lives of oppressed and marginalized Black African women, but also the deconstruction of prevailing negative images and conceptions of women as merely subordinate beings within the hegemonic male mainstream of African contexts.The findings suggest that these Black African female characters are capable of freeing themselves from unequal social structures and achieving self-realization. In order to do justice to this analysis, feminist theory, the womanist approach, and narrative text analysis are employed as the primary methodological frameworks.
Słowa kluczowe:
Black African women, representation of women, feminism, womanism, Fatou DiomeBibliografia
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