Crise familiale et scénographie de l’inconfort féminin dans quelques romans féministes africains contemporains

Résumé

The nuclear family unit is a social entity consisting of father, mother and children. However,
other members are added to it, notably parents and grandparents, without whom the family
structure would be devoid of the filial fibre that solidifies it. However, far from being the leaven
that binds the links of the family chain by bringing its members together in the name of outdated
traditions inspired by patriarchy, kinship sometimes works unconsciously to de-stabilize itself.
The question must therefore be asked whether the family does not carry within itself the seeds
of its own destruction. Is this destruction not the result of various essentialist practices based,
for example, on paternal irresponsibility? In other words, do not the recrimi-nations of young
people in the novels deciphered lead to a re-founding of the family institu-tion, which is
increasingly exposed to multifaceted dysfunctions? To answer this question we use the sociocriticism
of Edmond Cros. It is based on a diptych: the phenotexte and the geno-text. In two
main parts, the study shows the deep-rooted causes of family crises, before illus-trating that the
literary work remains above all a significant aesthetic creation underpinning "a discourse on the
world", i.e. a precise vision of the world.