The Postcolony in Chinua Achebe’s A man of the People (1966) and Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow (2006)
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Date
2022
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Mouloud Mammeri University
Abstract
This research paper is a comparative study of The Postcolony in Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People (1966), and Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s Wizard of the Crow (2006). It seeks to investigate the extent to which both authors and novels converge in their depiction of their independent countries Nigeria and Kenya. The first chapter handles the settings of both A Man of the People (1966) and Wizard of the Crow (2006) as postcolonies, archetypal of independent Nigeria and Kenya, it highlights the complex web of historical, cultural, and political forces that shape these postcolonial situations through an extensive investigation. The second chapter explores both characters as ‘Zombies’, that is to say as postcolonial agents or victims without agency to change, they are analysed as people caught in a complex system of power relationships, frequently without agency, and acting as a representation for the general populous in their respective countries. One of the basic findings of this piece of research concerns both Achebe’s and Ngugi’s commitments to denounce the dehumanizing effects of the ’postcolony’ on both rulers and ruled Nigerians and Kenyans. This dissertation sheds light on the complicated legacies of colonialism and the difficulties faced by rising nations as they deal with the shadows of their colonial pasts through a thorough exploration of the postcolonial narratives constructed by Chinua Achebe and Ngugi wa Thiong'o.
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58p. ; 30cm (+CD-Rom)
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Postcolony, Commitment, Independence, Zombification, Kenya, Nigeria
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Littérature et Approches Interdisciplinaires.