Cultural Clash, Alienation, Identity and Sociopolitical unrest in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease (1960) and Rachid Mimouni’s Le Fleuve détourné (1982).
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2014
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university Mouloud Mammeri of Tizi-Ouzou
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This dissertation has dealt with the themes of Cultural Clash and Alienation,
Identity and Sociopolitical unrest in the post independent African literary works more
exactly in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease (1960) and Rachid Mimouni’s Le fleuve
détourné (1982). Both Achebe and Mimouni are post independent writers who portray the
state of disorder and confusion into which the African societies were immersed. Using the
Fanonian theory, we have tried to pick out some of the affinities that lie between the two
texts. Le fleuve détourné is written twenty two years after No Longer at Ease. Yet both
novels have salient points in common. Both Achebe’s and Mimouni’s novels are lucid
portraits of the African societies in the two periods before and after decolonization. They
portray the African as an alienated individual whose life is completely altered and whose
culture is at the verge of disappearance. Day after day, the life of the African exacerbates.
The hopes upon which the independence was built evaporated. By an intensive reading of
the two novels and by making reference to the Fanonian theory, we have tried to show that
though they are written in two distinct periods and by two different writers, No Longer at
Ease and Le fleuve détourné share many themes in common. This makes allusion to the
fact that although many years have elapsed after Africa’s independence, she still suffers
from nearly the same problems as those she underwent during the colonial period.
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Comparative Literature in foreign languages