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La Voix Humaniste Dans La Grève Des Bàttu, Lauren Redding
La Voix Humaniste Dans La Grève Des Bàttu, Lauren Redding
Theses and Dissertations--Modern and Classical Languages, Literature and Cultures
This research explores how West African postcolonial literature offers a social critique of society, trapped between past and future, and how such a critique treats the ideas of feminism, westernization, and humanism. I then relate this analysis to the current theories of négritude and afropolitanism, as discussed in Sortir de la Grande Nuit by author Achille Mbembe, which creates a meaningful context and future implications for the ideas already examined. The primary text I am working with, because it covers a wide range of topics through social critique, and because the author is one of the first of her kind, …