Sembene Ousmane’s Xala (1974) and Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood (1977) As Novels of The Postcolony
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2022
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Université Mouloud Mammeri
Abstract
This dissertation entitle SembeneOusmane’s Xala (1975) and Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood (1977) As Novels of the Post colony , investigates some aspects of neo-colonialism, a new exploitative system that has marked post independent Africa as a whole after the 1960’s. More precisely, this research is limited to the settings of Petals of Blood (1977) and Xala (1974) as Post colonies in the first chapter and the characters’ ‘Zombification’ in the second chapter. The theoretical ground is borrowed from Achille Mbembe’s masterpiece On the Postcolony (2001). The basic findings of our investigation are: first Senegal and Kenya themselves are Postcolonies. Second, some characters are agents of the postcolonies and some others are zombifieder. Third, the commitment of novelists and filmmakers to the denunciation of their post independent states’ plight with neo-colonialism and their quest for their natives’ traditional values.
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52 p. ; 30 cm. (+ CD-Rom)
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Sembene Ousmane’s, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s, Postcolony, Post independent states, Africa, Neo-colonialism
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Literature and Interdisciplinary Approaches