Ambivalence and Subaltern Voices: A Postcolonial Comparison of Michael Blake’s Dances with Wolves(1988) and Richard Wagamese’s Les étoiles s’éteignent à l’aube(2014)
| dc.contributor.author | Belkhir Malika | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-12-01T08:46:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-12-01T08:46:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.description | 59p. ; (+CD-Rom) | |
| dc.description.abstract | This research paper examines two novels, Blake’s Dances with Wolves(1988) and Wagamese’s Les étoiles s’éteignent à l’aube(2014),originally Medicine Walk, translated in 2016 by Christine Raguet. The central focus of this work is to compare the two novels from postcolonial perspectives through examining ambivalence and subalternity in both narratives. To achieve this purpose, two postcolonial concepts, of the prominent postcolonial theorists Homi K. Bhabha’s ambivalence and Gayatri Spivak’s subaltern voices, are used. To deepen our research, we rely on related sub-concepts like Stereotypes, Mimicry, Hybridity, and the representation of the Indians as subaltern. As a whole, the research aims at comparing a white-authored novel that seeks to humanize the Indians while simultaneously maintaining the stereotypes, with an Indian-authored novel that seeks the reconciliation with the past of the Indians. The first chapter deals with Ambivalence of Stereotypes, Mimicry, and Hybridity. It shows the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized and vice versa. The second chapter seeks to discuss the subaltern voices and the representation of women and the white man as savior. Throughout our investigation, we have found that the two authors evoke similar images of colonial and postcolonial perspectives. Besides, both novels reflect the ambivalence as an inevitable consequence of colonialism, and the complex relationship between the Indians and the white men. They also reflect how the power structures operate to silence the subaltern and make the colonized’s voice unheard and not understood. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | General and Comparative Literature | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.ummto.dz/handle/ummto/29233 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou | |
| dc.subject | Subaltern | |
| dc.subject | ambivalence | |
| dc.subject | hybridity | |
| dc.subject | mimicry | |
| dc.subject | stereotypes | |
| dc.title | Ambivalence and Subaltern Voices: A Postcolonial Comparison of Michael Blake’s Dances with Wolves(1988) and Richard Wagamese’s Les étoiles s’éteignent à l’aube(2014) | |
| dc.type | Thesis |