IL TEMA DEL VIAGGIO INIZIATICO NELLA LETTERATURA DELL'AFRICA SUBSAHARIANA DALLA TRADIZIONE ORALE ALLA MODERNIZAZIONE ROMANZESCA (AMADOU HAMPATE' BA, AHMADOU KOUROUMA)

This research work speaks about the initiation trip's subject in the African subsharian literature. Through a comparison between some oral tradition's tales (transcribed by Amadou Hampaté Ba) and two contemporary novels (L'étrange destin de Wangrin of Amadou Hampaté Ba and Monnè, outrages et défis of Ahmadou Kourouma), we analyze the subject's development from the oral to the written literature. In particular, we show how the colonization has changed the essence of this subject depending on the traditional vision. This study is seconded by the analysis of two essential variants of the selected subject: the character who makes the trip and the spaces where the journey happens. Our investigation also propose an historical and anthropological study on the initiation rites' general configuration and on the initiation in the writers' ethnic groups.