Writing the Failure of Nation-state Building after Decolonization: Chinua Achebe’s A Man of the People and V.S.Naipaul’s The Mimic Men
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2016
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University Mouloud Mammeri of Tizi-Ouzou
Abstract
This study has presented nation-state building and national identity in two novels of
post colonial societies: A Man of The People (1966) by Chinua Achebe and The Mimic Men
(1967) by V S Naipaul. Our major interest has been to show the struggle of peoples of the
Third World and the difficulties that faced them in their project of building their nation-state.
To achieve our purpose, we have relied on three theorists: Benedict Anderson’s notion of
nationalism as explained in his book Imagined Communities (1983), Homi Bhabha’s concept
of mimicry explained in his book The Location of Culture (1994), and Frantz Fanon’s The
Wretched of the Earth (1961). We have attempted to show how the two works share the same
attitudes toward nation-state building, and its disillusionment caused by political corruption,
politician’s incompetence and the people’s loss of identity and their mimicry of their former
colonizer.
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57p.;30cm.(+cd)
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Langue, Culture des Pays Anglophones et Médias