In African literature, the woman is a theme that many writers have discussed from the colonial era to the present day. The woman has always been told by the man and not by the woman herself in many literary works. The status of women has been the subject of many questions since the beginning. The myth of the Garden of Eden presents the tempting woman, whose irresistible charms lead the man to disobedience and perdition. Since then, the man has known how to take his revenge, stifling the woman’s voice, even overwhelming it with his physical strength and arrogance. Calixthe Beyala strives to break down the inferiorizing images of women by denouncing the violence that tradition perpetuates against them and calls on women to courageously take their destiny into their own hands and to sublimate their bodies, their thoughts and actions.
Keywords: Men, women, relationships, denunciation, victimization, sublimation, valorization
