Symbolic violence in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) and Mouloud Mammeri’s La Colline Oubliée (1952)
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2022
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Mouloud Mammeri University OF Tizi-Ouzou
Abstract
This research paper is a comparative study of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958) and
Mouloud Mammeri’s La Colline Oubliée (1952). To carry out this study, we have relied on
Pierre Bourdieu’s Symbolic Violence. This theory has helped us to explain the ‘soft’ manner
of domination between two social groups as the case of colonial implicit policies in
colonization. Symbolic Violence has also explained the arbitrary power between individuals
of the same social group such as Masculine Domination. Our focus is on the affinities in the
two novels .This dissertation is divided into four major sections: An Introduction, a section of
Methods and Materials, and another for Results, Discussion, and a Conclusion. After a
thorough analysis of the two works, we have come some conclusions: the first conclusion is
that, in their works, both Achebe and Mammeri have depicted, the Symbolic Violence of the
dominant colonist. They have both revealed some cultural and political policies imposed on
the indigenous people. The second conclusion is that the traditional social norms of the two
societies (Umuofia and Tasga) have reflected clearly the Masculine domination. The last
conclusion reached in this study is that Achebe and Mammeri have embraced the postcolonial
position of fighting Symbolic Violence and have engaged themselves in supporting
their nations’ dignity and freedom.
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57p. ; 30cm.+(cd)
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Symbolic Violence, ‘Soft’manner of domination, Habitus, Arbitrary power, legitimate power, Masculine Domination, Cultural industry, Affinities.
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Literature and Interdisciplinary Approaches