The African as Subaltern in Joyce Cary’s Mister Johnson (1939) and Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease (1960)

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2019

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Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou

Abstract

This piece of research discusses the African as Subaltern in Joyce Cary’s Mister Johnson (1939) and Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease (1960). This dissertation fells within comparative literature, It deals with the representation of native black Africans as subalterns serving the British Empire .The basic issue we try to raise is that while Joyce Cary’s representation of the black African is an Ethnocentrist and racist one, Achebe ‘s representation is an answer back or a correction of Cary’s stereotypical one. To fulfill this analysis, we rely on theoretical borrowing from the theorist Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin White Masks (1952).

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30cm ; 54p.

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Chinua Achebe/ Joyce Cary- Subalternity- Africans serving the British Empire – Eurocentrism- black natives- Blackness/ white masters- No Longer at Ease – Mister Johnson

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Littérature et Approche Interdisciplinaire