The Notion of Postmodern Literature and other reflections

It was necessary to wait until the 1970s or more to see the birth of a literature that takes into account, and in an equitable way, the human lives that it has not stopped valuing. It is about the postmodern literature which does not flee its face, which does not flee its motivation, the reality, the life, the world which saw it being born, in which it is born. It works to reconcile life, humans, times, moments of humanity, aesthetic and ideological moments. It has only one mission: to effectively manifest the general interest by deconstructing the double language, the fabulation, the egoism and by valuing the entanglement of the world-cultures: it is far from the cultural hybridity which, born from the modern African literatures, is only the trademark of the structuralism, the rationalism and the social, racial and cultural discrimination. The challenge of postmodern literature is to have undermined modern socio-literary egoism by revealing the exact truth of humanity, of which it considers all the layers that it aims to balance.

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Bernard DJOUMESSI TONGMO is the author of several works on literary postmodernity. Questioning the instrumentalization of cultures, he has published a play entitled Les Lieux Sacrés.