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International Journal of Research in English, Jun 30, 2021

Les sociétés africaines, caribéennes, et anglaises présentent, quoique partageant, d’une manière ... more Les sociétés africaines, caribéennes, et anglaises présentent, quoique partageant, d’une manière formelle, des caractéristiques, des profils divers en raisons des spécificités des milieux physiques dans lesquels elles se déploient. Ainsi, il a été important, dans ce travail, d’établir un lien nombrileux entre l’espace et le discours. En effet, l’analyse sémiotique de l’espace littéraire dans les oeuvres de Ngugi wa Thiong’o, George Lamming et William Boyd a conduit à une conclusion qui prend valeur d’importance dans des événements et des réalités politico-sociales. Etudiée sous un angle sémiotique, la nomenclature de ces réalités fait sens dans des contextes et cotextes communicationnels à travers lesquels se lisent des aspects pragmatiques. Les toits langagiers et les contenus énonciatifs laissent observer des logiques positionnelles et transformationnelles, lesquelles épousent fondamentalement des aspects de la continuité et de la discontinuité. Et cela fait du message textuel un ...

South Asian Research Journal of Arts, Language and Literature

Published in 1999, Cassandra is a remarquable novel through which Violet Barungi pinpoints variou... more Published in 1999, Cassandra is a remarquable novel through which Violet Barungi pinpoints various questions related to feminism and femalism. To delve into the issue of feminism and glass the idea on femocracy, the perspective of femism and kink has been developed and elaborated. Indeed, in a critical perspective, the paper has spotlighted the degree of the Ugandan women’s failure in the struggle against patriarchy in their society. An analysis of probate pertinency has shown up the resolution of the female character to overthrow the social and cultural female status cushioned by so much domesticated vagrancies. However, confronted with pugnant realities, the female actant steps back to fall into the trap of sex and sexuality. A path to freedom is then cut short, a dream shattered on the erotic wall of venial pleasures. Emancipation is then wedged apart into the glooming splinters of masculinity and patriarchy.

International Journal of Literature and Arts

Mankind who has been looking forward finding back his Lost Paradise, has defined his life into an... more Mankind who has been looking forward finding back his Lost Paradise, has defined his life into an endless quest. A quest which has given ground to a topic of reflection among many African writers such as Fatou Diome, who in The Belly of the Atlantic, brings on surface the different aspects of African emigration in European countries. Thus, in this article, we drive, on the one hand, at exposing the misleading and impaired hope that attracts and motivates African young people to run away from their "miserable lives" to cross the Mediterranean and Atlantic oceans and, on the other hand, at highlighting the local solutions that do exist to stop such a social and topical phenomenon.

The Journal of Pan-African Studies, 2015

African, Caribbean, and English societies, in spite of the fact that they share common features, ... more African, Caribbean, and English societies, in spite of the fact that they share common features, remain different in their profile on the grounds of the particularities of the physical spaces that witness their expressions and the specific goals they target within historical, cultural, political and economic data that form out their social stratification. In this way, it becomes important, as a main idea of this work, to put on surface the intrinsic link between space and discourse. A semiotic analysis of literary space in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s, George Lamming’s and William Boyd’s works has led to a concluding argument which highlights social and political realities. Read through a semiotic stand, the nomenclature of these events and realities root their meaning in communicating scenarios which portray pragmatic aspects. Levels of language and nature of messages help to observe some logic of positions and transformations that imply continuity and discontinuity dimensions. What affects...

Mankind who has been looking forward finding back his Lost Paradise , has defined his life into a... more Mankind who has been looking forward finding back his Lost Paradise , has defined his life into an endless quest. A quest which has given ground to a topic of reflection among many African writers such as Fatou Diome, who in The Belly of the Atlantic , brings on surface the different aspects of African emigration in European countries. Thus, in this article, we drive, on the one hand, at exposing the misleading and impaired hope that attracts and motivates African young people to run away from their “miserable lives” to cross the Mediterranean and Atlantic oceans and, on the other hand, at highlighting the local solutions that do exist to stop such a social and topical phenomenon.

In a context of Cold War, the world deglobalized itself to let appear a hierarchized and divided ... more In a context of Cold War, the world deglobalized itself to let appear a hierarchized and divided face from where one could localize a Western area, an Eastern zone, a Northern region and a Southern expanse. Mainly dominated by the West and the East antagonistic relationships, the world international interactions welcomed a third block that stood as a point of contact between the two ideological and political slabs to illustrate a philosophy of non-alignment. It is such a context of mutual suspicion and high distrust that has inspired this paper which, indeed, targets to pinpoint the moving and changing place of the Third-World in the worldwide economy and its relations with other areas in a current background of a global pandemic.

Written in a context of social and political turbulences, My Son Story puts light on the differen... more Written in a context of social and political turbulences, My Son Story puts light on the different occurrences that shaped Apartheid history. In her alight elan to unveil nooks and crannies of the gloomy pages of South African elapsed history, Nadine Gordimer goes deep down in her country’s past to pinpoint ins and outs of a daily harassed and strongly subjugated people to the law of the strongest. Thus, this paper explores and analyses the semantic features of the discourse of resistance, grounding our reflection on the quirks of ethos and subjectivity of a heroic stand. To this end, it gouges out the different communicational assets that have raised the personae of a combatant to the sheer ranks of the heroes of freedom in South Africa. Article visualizations:

International Journal of Language and Literary Studies

Regarded as a state of servitude through which an individual or a group of persons is compelled t... more Regarded as a state of servitude through which an individual or a group of persons is compelled to work their guts out without any possibility to get compensated or rewarded, slavery, for some centuries, had been implemented under various forms from one country to another. From the antiquity to the twentieth century, thralldom had been a profitable business that gangrened the African continent. Thus being, African and African American thinkers shoulder the mission to dust archives and lift the curtain of history to retell and re-narrate the episode of drudgery; among them Leonoa Miano and Toni Morrison. The purpose of this article is to examine the trauma of slavery from a comparative, matrifocal, and Afrocentric perspective so as to highlight commonalities and differences between Leonora Miano’s La Saison de l’ombre and Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Inspired by the infamous history of slavery, these two award-winning novels not only conjure up the ordeal of slavery, but they also cataly...

Scholars International Journal of Linguistics and Literature

Set in a context of colonization, Butterfly Burning is a fictional work that digs out the coloniz... more Set in a context of colonization, Butterfly Burning is a fictional work that digs out the colonized"s mind to illustrate the brutality and unfairness of a ruthless system that gangrenes a whole community"s reason of existence. This paper which finds ground on the theory of "the paradox of silence" as it is defined by Maurice Zundel, highlights a reflexion based on the social and political meaning of the praxis of silence among men and women who are deprived of the backbone of their raison d'être. It focuses on the built-in meaning attached to framework, sex and music in an ambient world silenced by the readable and audible voice of voicelessness.

Diplomacy & Statecraft, 2013

Post-1945 decolonisation involved the universal acceptance of nation-statehood as the alternative... more Post-1945 decolonisation involved the universal acceptance of nation-statehood as the alternative to imperialism. Nationalism vanquished its transnational competitors, notably imperialism and Marxism. Alternatives to imperial rule that avoided sovereign states on national lines, such as federations in the later 1940s and 1950s, have received less attention from historians. Federations involved alternative ways of thinking about sovereignty, territoriality, and political economy. British interest in creating federations, for example the Central African Federation (CAF) in 1953, offers some new perspectives on the strength of imperial ideology and the determination to continue a missionary imperialism after the Second World War. Federal thinking and practice was prominent at this time in other European empires too, notably the French and Dutch ones. The federal idea was also an aspect of the emerging European community. This is suggestive of a wider "federal moment" that points to the importance of linking international, trans-national, imperial, and world historical approaches. Post-1945 decolonisation involved the universal acceptance of nationstatehood as the alternative to imperialism. 1 Nationalism vanquished its transnational competitors, notably imperialism and Marxism. Alternatives to imperial rule that resisted the logic of sovereign states on national lines, such as the federations created by the British in the later 1940s and 1950s, as well as post-imperial federations created by decolonising political elites, have arguably received less attention from historians than they might. 2 From a British imperial perspective, the interest in creating federations offers an opportunity to reexamine within the context of the "decline, revival and fall" of the British Empire-the role of imperial ideology and Britain's

Symbolism and literary imagery have always been means of transmitting socio-political messages th... more Symbolism and literary imagery have always been means of transmitting socio-political messages through engaged literature. In a logic of casting a critical look at his society, the Nigerian writer, Chigozie Obioma, resorts to a literary text dotted with images and symbols to underline the ills of a society whose family unit disassembles to sink into a tragic chaos. With a style endued with features of allegory, Obioma, in TheFishermen, shapes out a narrative discourse through which he iconizes the socio-political issues that submerged Nigeria in the recent past and continues to swamp on itspeople. In this paper, we manage to de-fictionalize the author’s message to lay bare the crude meaning of his hinting about river space and foolishness. Our analytical approach is based on the theory of symbolism to better connect social and physical representamen to their connotations and denotations. AFocus is then put on the reading of the physical and psychological ensigns that centralize the ...

International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences, 2021

Multilinguales

L'excision et la circoncision sont des rituels traditionnels, qui consistent en l'ablation d'une ... more L'excision et la circoncision sont des rituels traditionnels, qui consistent en l'ablation d'une partie de l'appareil génital, pratiqués dans des ethnies africaines qui les vivent comme une purification (dioulnouder). Il en est ainsi des Halpulars au Sénégal jusqu'aux Kikuyu au Kenya en passant par les Bambara du Mali. De telles pratiques, notamment l'excision, a fait l'objet de réflexion contradictoire chez beaucoup d'universitaires et d'écrivains comme Awa Thiam (1978), Nuruddin Farah (1981) et Ngugi Wa Thiong'o (1965, 1989). Nous nous intéressons à la position de Ngugi Wa Thiong'o telle qu'elle se dégage de son ouvrage The River Between (désormais RB) dans lequel l'accomplissement des deux rituels de la croyance traditionnelle, l'excision et la circoncision, à travers le parcours de deux personnages (Muthoni et Waiyaki), est confronté à un deni de la religion chrétienne dans la société Kikuyu au kenya. Le dessein de se faire exciser envahit et obnubile la fille du pasteur Joshua. Son père, un révérend, ne pourra jamais cautionner sa décision de se faire exciser : « but father will not allow it » (RB, 25) 1. Du nuage de cette rupture, se dégage l'expression d'un accomplissement de soi, la joie d'une épreuve qui, quoique douloureuse, demeure l'axe d'une orientation prédicative qui s'impose au récit second sur l'excision. C'est l'objet d'étude de la première partie de cet article. Incirconcis, Waiyaki se fait ombre dans un espace où son existence se mesure aux épisodes laborieux de tâches quotidiennes. Sa vie s'écoule entre l'ennui de la routine et l'amertume d'un interdit d'accès à l'univers des hommes de la société Kikuyu. Il vit dans une angoisse existentielle et s'impatiente de se voir autoriser à couper le cordon ombilical qui le lie à sa « vie de boy » et à son « innocence ». Et c'est l'intensité de cette Sémiotique narrative de la joie dans The River between de Ngugi Wa Thiong'o Multilinguales, 4 | 2014