POLITICS OF THE DOMICILE IN THIONG’O’S MATIGARI
| Autor: | Sourav Kumar Nag |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Oppression
History media_common.quotation_subject Media studies AFRICAN LITERATURE SPACE THEORY POSTCOLONIALISM DOMICILE WOMAN STUDIES GENDER STUDIES LITERATURE Independence Nationalism Politics Neocolonialism Space Resistance Home space Memory Ideology Realm Ideology Neocolonialism Resistance (creativity) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Epiphany; Vol 13, No 1 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2303-6850 1840-3719 |
| DOI: | 10.21533/epiphany.v13i1 |
| Popis: | My paper offers a reading of Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Matigari (1989) and investigates the use of the home space as a site of protest. It is the home space that Matigari struggles to retrieve in the novel. The journeys undertaken by Matigari are metaphorically interwoven with his journeys within-the journeys in the realm of memory. In Matigari (1989), Matigari’s search for a home space in the aftermath of the independence of an anonymous nation (identified as Kenya) culminates in the grim discovery of the neocolonial oppression that marks the collapse of the nationalist dreams. Hence, my main aim in this paper is to analyse the journeys undertaken by the characters in the novel, and in doing so, I will also try to explain the spatial politics that define these journeys. |
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