Identity and Diversity in Pepetela’s Mayombe (1983)
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2019
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Mouloud Mammeri University OF Tizi-Ouzou
Abstract
This dissertation tries to shed light on themes of identity and diversity in Pepetela’s
Mayombe (1983) in the light of Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks (1952), The
Wretched of the Earth (1961) and Kobena Mercer’s Welcome to the Jungle (1994). In the
first part, we have examined Mayombe by analyzing the issue of identity through race and
the process of decolonization. First, we have relied on Fanon’s theory of racialization
taken from his work Black Skin, White Masks (1952), resultantly, we have found that race
is not a parameter of national identity according to Pepetela’s character ‘Theory’. Then,
we dealt with violence and nationalism as two important elements in the process of
decolonization using Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (1961), which emphasizes in
using violence and giving importance to political education and national consciousness
and unity. In the second part, we have examined Mayombe concerning the issue of
diversity through hybridity, multiculturalism and transculturalism. We have corroborated
with Kobena Mercer’s theory taken from Welcome to the Jungle (1994) to demonstrate
how ‘Theory’ the main character refers to hybridity through assimilating two cultures and
having a hybrid identity. Additionally, how the concepts of multiculturalism and
tranculturalism reflected the other guerrillas and all Angola as a nation. Indeed, Pepetela
succeded to approach several essential concepts in one literary work within an African
social and cultural context.
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54p. ; 30cm.+(cd)
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Literature and Interdisciplinary Approaches.