Aspects of Neo-colonialism in NgugiwaThiong’o’sPetals of Blood (1977) and Sembene Ousmane’s Xala (1975)
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2018
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Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou
Abstract
This dissertation entitled ‘Aspects of Neo-Colonialism in NgugiwaThiong’o’sPetals ofBlood
(1977) and SembeneOusmane’sXala (1975)’, investigated aspects of neo-colonialism, a new
exploitative system that has marked Africa as a whole after the 1960’s. More precisely, this
research is limited to the study of the issues of corruption and religious hypocrisy in the first
chapter, the quest for national identity in the second and reverse racism in the third chapter .
The theoretical ground is borrowed from Frantz Fanon’s ‘On National Culture’ in his The
Wretched of The Earth, and HomiBhabha’s concept of ‘Hybridity’. The basic findings of our
investigation are: first native governments’ renewal of exploitation and corruption after
independence. Second native populations’ struggle to cut their bounds with the ex-colonizer.
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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30cm ; 55p.
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neo-colonialism-corruption-novel-film-commitment-native bourgeoisie-native resistance-reverse racism.
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Literature and Interdisciplinary Approaches