Je ne suis pas un homme qui pleure (2016) and Impossible de grandir (2013) outline how the sense of imposture of both authors went progressively from hinder to creative force. This paradoxical situation, or paratopic in-between if considering the terms defined by Dominique Maingueneau, is in this way invested and transformed by Fatou Diome and Fabienne Kanor in the course of their respective stories. Writing then becomes an intimate and privileged place, a fictitious one where their legitimacy of woman and author can finally be exercised, after being denied by the society until then. Indeed, both authors were assigned to a role or postures they were rejecting.