Mythe spirituel féministe et écopoétique de l’endogénéité dans Les naufragés de l’intelligence de Jean-Marie Adiaffi

Abstract

Faced with the chaos which characterizes postcolonial African societies governed by the tools of Western modernity and the overthrow of the traditional religious order, ousted by imported religions, Jean-Marie Adiaffi proposes a new paradigm of development which moves away from modernity poorly inculturated on the continent. A joint ecopoetic and Durandian mythocritical reading based on the anthropological structures of the imagination reveals a reconciliation of the African being with the spiritual and cultural foundations of its origins to support endogenous human development. To this end, it activates a spiritual feminist myth embodied by the figure of the Prophetess Akoua Mando Sounan (Komian priestess) to invite us to find in the origins of mother earth (Gaia) a new impetus which reconnects the African man with the work applied to a fertile and productive nature for its well-being and harmonious development.

Keywords

• feminist spiritual myth
• endogenous development
• mother earth
• Adiaffi (Jean-Marie)
• ecopoetic