Focus on Africa : white views, black reviews

Dissertant

Tuzani, Fatimah al-Zahra

Thesis advisor

Samad, Daizal R.

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

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Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-594160