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    A Comparative Study of Chinua Achebe’s “A Man of the People” (1966) and Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children” (1981)
    (Mouloud Mammeri University OF Tizi-Ouzou, 2022) ALMOUBIZAR, Farah; GAZOU, Cherif
    The research paper is a comparative study of Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children” and Chinua Achebe’s “A Man of the People”. To carry on this study, we have relied on some concepts from Achille Mbembe's “On the Postcolony” and Franz Fanon's “The Wretched of the Earth”. In our research, we have dealt with the similarities between the two novels by comparing the themes and the characters of the two societies (India and Nigeria). This dissertation is divided into five sections: an introduction, a section for method and materials, a result and discussion section, a conclusion and a biography. After a substantial analysis of the two novels, we have come to some conclusions. The first conclusion indicates that there are two opposed classes, one dominates and the other is dominated, as well as the decadent features of post-independent societies such as corruption, bribery and deception. The second conclusion indicates the disillusionment that the people faced after a long period of struggle and hope. The last conclusion reached in this study is that the two societies feature the same problems which involve class stratification on the one hand and women’s representation on the other hand.