Littérature négro-africaine, idéologie et (sous-)développement

Abstract

Abstract Black African Literature, Ideology and Underdevelopment. — In the history of the conflictory relationship between Africa and the West, the assertion of an African identity in Black African literature has brought forth a mythical conception of "Africanicity", defined in opposition to Western culture, itself identified with modernity. Given the "theoretical qualitative discontinuity effect", the magie of writing has led to losing the epistemological origins of Africanicity as a historical phenomenon. Thus having become a "differentialist" ideology in the service of opportunistic theories of development, this "Africanicity-difference" serves to justify the daims that a modernist discourse makes for working out sui generis paradigms for the Black continent's development. Stuck in an original, subjective "differentialism", Africanicity is a fluid and massive concept incompatible with development seen in its essential, dynamic aspect. Africa's development depends, nowadays, on another strategie attitude: the African subject's "Narcissist self" must yield to its "reductionist ego", the only psychodiscursive agency capable of reinserting Africanicity in its historical, dialectical relations with the reality of the world.