La littérature française dans les programmes scolaires congolais. Un choix de développement culturel conflictuel

• Main Author: Omer Massoumou
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Association Portugaise d'Etudes Françaises 2009-06-01
• Series: Carnets
• Subjects: Congolese literature; French literature; Reception; Literacy values
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/carnets/4235

The goal of this study is to demonstrate the role assigned to the literary teaching in the Republic of Congo in the fifth form of literature (secondary school). Considering the institutional choice of the literary works, it appears that the Republic of Congo attaches an important value to the Congolese and French literatures. Our study will bear on threefold key points. Firstly, we are going to deal with questions related to linguistic, ideological, aesthetic or thematic issues motivating the choice of the literary textbooks and genres. Secondly, we want to appraise the meaning of the juxtaposition of the national and French literatures in the curriculums. Thirdly, we will concentrate on diachronic data. As regards the Republic of Congo, the present choice of literary works refers to the post single party historical context (1990) when the censorship is not obligatory. The liberty notion advanced by the democratic political regime seems to open the way to ideological, cultural and aesthetic values.