The Political Alienation of the Intellectual in Recent Zairian Fiction
A high proportion of recent Zairian fiction features intellectuals—educators, priests, students, and professionals—as major characters who are in some way alienated from society. This study documents the extent of this occurrence in novels by Mbwil a Mpang Ngal, V. Y. Mudimbe, Bolya Baenga, and Pius Ngandu Nkashama and, at the same time, relates the situation of the intellectual as seen in these works to some of the social and political factors peculiar to Zaire's colonial history and post-independence evolution. Analyses of individual novels provide the basis for a discussion of Belgian colon... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Text |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 1991 |
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New Prairie Press
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Schlagwörter: | Zairian fiction / Zairian / educators / priests / students / professionals / Mbwil a Mpang Ngal / V. Y. Mudimbe / Bolya Baenga / Pius Ngandu Nkashama / social factors / political factors / Zaire's colonial history / Zaire / post-independence evolution / individual novels / novel / Belgian colonial / évolué / ambiguous / role / African priest / Congo / corruption / independence / political / repression / alienation / victims of change / victims / class structure / post-colonial period / post-colonialism / English Language and Literature / Race / Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies |
Sprache: | unknown |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28500637 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol15/iss1/10 |