The Actual Self versus the Expected Self: Beyala’s Dialectical Feminist Discourse in C’est le Soleil qui m’a Brûlée Tu t’Appelleras Tanga

As a reader, one is confronted with issues of race, ethnicity and gender inequality, in some societies, where thinkers’ challenge lies essentially in enhancing questions of human values, equality and justice. Writers, during the last decades of the 20th and of the 21st centuries, have endeavoured to operate with new assumptions that are judged appropriate to face the traditional system of understanding. The new world order which is, in fact, the result of writers’ common efforts towards globalization, imperatively requires the regeneration of lenses that acquaint one with new praising human philosophies, and existential questions. The question of the self is among many other questions asked about the “one self “and the “other self”. Since Beyala’s works are not just mere additions in the field of literary studies, it would be prerequisite to note the author’s attitudes and dialectical way of thinking, as well as the knowhow of writing a discourse based on rational thoughts, it is very necessary to bring and suggest new viewpoints over the way life should be like.