Du sacré dans le roman sénégalais
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Abstract EN:
More than the colonical domination, what has ruined and durably jeopardized the development and the modernization of african societies is the negro-african psychology itself. The african mental habit is grounded on an everlasting belief in the sacred values which inhibit all innovating initiatives. Through the senegalese novel, one can perceive the loss and the quest of the meaning of the primitive sacfed. Moreover the crisis of the sacred provokes the crisis of cultural identity. Violence, madness and death which are the lot of novel heroes convey quite well the failure and the crisis of all the values were land marks in the post. The principles of heredity and perenniality of customs determining the social and professionnal status of people, give birth to the senegalese identity. This enforces the refusal of any mixing of people, the denial of the individual and the misappreciation of the individual liberty as a social value.
Abstract FR:
Plus que la domination coloniale, ce qui a ruine et compromis durablement le developpement et la modernisation des societes africaines, c'est une certaine psychologie du negro-africain, psychologie forgee par une longue croyance en des valeurs sacrees qui inhibent toute initiative novatrice. A travers le roman senegalais, il est possible de percevoir la perte et la quete du sens du sacre primordial. La crise du sacre appelant au demeurant la crise de l'identite culturelle. La violence, la folie et la mort qui sont le lot des heros romanesques traduisent bien l'echec et la crise de toutes les valeurs qui ont jadis servi de reperes. Parce que les principes d'heredite, de separation et de perpetuite qui donnent naissance a l'identite senegalaise commandent le refus des melanges, la negation de l'individu et la meconnaissance de la liberte individuelle comme valeur sociale.