Literatura, ecología y comunicación intercultural: caso de Ceux qui sortent dans la nuit de Mutt-Lon y Les voleurs de sexes de Janis Otsiemi

Sub-Saharan Africans believe in the power of nature and see themselves as part of it. For them, nature exercises power over man, makes laws, dictates his conduct and regulates his life. To preserve these realities, literature and culture are the bridges of rapprochement. Culture is the basis of the identity of beings, and literature facilitates the opening of peoples. This close relationship has given birth to several literary techniques such as ecoliterature and ecocriticism that move the author as the reader in an imaginary that allows him to discover new realities. Eco-literature is a literary manifestation of ecotourism. It is considered as a literature which takes ecological wishes into account; it regulates research on the relationship between literature and ecology. Ecocriticism is the critique that aims to educate on issues of nature. With the evolution of scientific research, the topic of ecocriticism is related to culture, beliefs, benefits and protection of natural spaces. Ecocriticism opens the door to a variety of trends such as ecofeminism, ecoliterature and ecodetectivism leading to ecotourism. In the ecoliterary production, the authors use various places to set the actions of their characters. These spaces are identified as real spaces where the characters build in readers the possibility of discovering and building possible scenarios. This assumes that ecoliterature is a mirror of unknown cultural realities. This communication is contained in panel 4 entitled “El ecologismo de los pobres. Hacia una ecocrítica de las literaturas africanas”, it is a question of analysing the literary and ecological aspect in the works of two Cameroonians authors Mutt-Lon with Ceux qui sortent dans la nuit and Charly Gabriel Mbock with Quand saigne le palmier, showing that literature reveals social aspects of the poor and favor’s a rethinking of ecocriticism that allows to build a new African literary thought.