Focus on Africa : white views, black reviews
Dissertant
Thesis advisor
Comitee Members
Amakhmakh, Naceur
Pratt, Paula
Ouaouicha, Driss
al-Alami, Najia
Bin Sharif, Abd al-Latif
University
Al Akhawayn University
Faculty
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
University Country
Morocco
Degree
Master
Degree Date
1999
English Abstract
he goal of this project is to investigate the ways in which the image of Africa is constructed as well as received.
This investigation will be based upon the analysis of four novels, Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines (1885), Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1902), Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1958), and Buchi Emecheta’s Second-Class Citizen (1974).
The four novels deal with Africa, but they look at it from different points of view.
Haggard and Conrad have contradictory perspectives of this continent, for the former considers Africa the center of ignorance and barbarity whereas the latter questions this position and criticizes it.
Achebe and Emecheta, however, have approximately the same standpoint because both of them refute some of the subjective judgments that are found in King Solomon’s Mines and offer a different reading of Africa’s history and cultures.
To analyze these novels, I will adopt the postcolonial theory mainly because it is the most appropriate one for this study since it addresses the issues of perception of the colonized by the colonizer and of redress and response of the former to the latter.
In this particular instance, I plan to rely on critical and theoretical opinions expressed by such as Edward Said, Chinua Achebe, and Homi Bhabha
Main Subjects
Social Sciences (Multidisciplinary)
No. of Pages
124
Table of Contents
Table of contents.
Abstract.
Abstract in Arabic.
Introduction.
Chapter One : The European drawing of Africa : rider laggard's king Solomon's mines and joseph Conrad's heart of darkness.
Chapter Two : The African drawing of Africa : Chinua Achebe's things fall apart and Buchi Emecheta’s second-class citizen.
Chapter Three : A postcolonial reading of Africa in Haggard’s King Solomon's mines, Conrad's heart of darkness, Achebe's things fall apart, and Emecheta’s Second-class citizen.
References.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Tuzani, Fatimah al-Zahra. (1999). Focus on Africa : white views, black reviews. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Al Akhawayn University, Morocco
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-594160
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Tuzani, Fatimah al-Zahra. Focus on Africa : white views, black reviews. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Al Akhawayn University. (1999).
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-594160
American Medical Association (AMA)
Tuzani, Fatimah al-Zahra. (1999). Focus on Africa : white views, black reviews. (Master's theses Theses and Dissertations Master). Al Akhawayn University, Morocco
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-594160
Language
English
Data Type
Arab Theses
Record ID
BIM-594160