| Abstract: | African writers and critics still have not provided a consensual view about the ways in which the African experience is to be conceptualized retrospectively or prospectively. There is a host of diverse opinions often marked by contradictory thrusts: the crisis of consciousness. Although there is talk of crisis, the situation is not of unrelieved chaos. The differing opinions, both contradictory and complementary, also fall into certain classifiable patterns. Central subject of this paper is the mapping of these broad patterns or orientations on consciousness. Primary date source are the conscious reflections of writers in their theoretical statements about the norms regarding their relationship with society. Sections: Introduction - The sociological background - The affirmative consciousness - Post-negritude situation - Critical realism - Socialist realism - Conclusion. Ref., French summary. |
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