Akpéné Délalom Agbessi

Inhabiting Stereotypes to Deconstruct Them: Strategies of Gender and Race Deconstruction in Calixthe Beyala’s L’homme qui m’offrait le ciel

The early phases of canonization in modern African literature long privileged male voices. The emergence of women in the literary field from the 1980s onwards constitutes an unprecedented phenomenon. These women writers distinguish themselves and break with the themes developed by their male peers, taking it upon thems...