Creation, myths and women in Ahmadou Kourouma

The triptych Power-Woman-Myth gives the woman her place in the exercise of power through the imagination of Ahmadou Kourouma. This is made visible by the myth, the place of realization of the impossible and the probable. The book exposes, certainly, the female figure of Power but never fails to integrate its male counterpart. This dialectical representation of the power is for the author a way to mean that the power does not find its legitimacy in the gender. The power is, consequently, an asexual data. Konandri Virginie decompartmentalizes genders to unify them in the mythological figure of the hermaphrodite, a being with the double valence of masculine and feminine. We will remember from her book that the exercise of power by women poses, in reality, the question of the Hero in Kourouma’s novels. The author engages in a perceptive reflection on the reality, the lure and the materiality of Power in Kouroumian thought.