Literature and identities

The mythocriticism that Virginie Konandri deploys in her progression is of Durandian and Brunelian obedience. With Gilbert Durand, she sets out to establish symbols, schemas and archetypes as the basis of literary creation, in various regimes, among Africans and Europeans. By tracing existing myths, she shows in turn how the myth liquefies to flood the literary text, how, through its indices, it emerges and signals itself in the literary and finally how the myth impels all its significance and encodes semantically the Literature. With this second part, it consecrates Pierre Brunel’s approach. By integrating these two facets of mythocriticism into her methodological approach, Virginie Konandri reflects on both the sources of literary creation and its progression. The myth is then presented in her study as the origin and the finality of literature. Rigorously applying this reading to identities in literature, the author demonstrates that identity is a construction of the imaginary and of the claim.