Numbing of Nationalistic Infatuations Through Economic Downfall: Records of the Colonial and Neocolonial Political System in the Novels God’s Bits of Wood and The Beautyful Ones are not Yet Born Cover Image

Utrnuće nacionalnih zanosa ekonomskim propadanjem: evidencija kolonijalnog i neokolonijalnog političkog sustava u romanima God’s Bits of Wood i The Beautyful Ones are not Yet Born
Numbing of Nationalistic Infatuations Through Economic Downfall: Records of the Colonial and Neocolonial Political System in the Novels God’s Bits of Wood and The Beautyful Ones are not Yet Born

Author(s): Glorija Mavrinac
Subject(s): Business Economy / Management, Studies of Literature, Other Language Literature, Nationalism Studies, Sociology of Culture
Published by: Bosansko filološko društvo
Keywords: colonialism; neocolonialism; mind westernization;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to show how West African literature testifies effects of colonialism and neocolonialism There by we will analyse novel God’s Bits of Wood (1960) written by Ousmane Sembène and The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968) written by Ayi Kwei Armah. The paper is describing the why and the how nationalism is changed regarding disappointment caused by failure of economics.

  • Issue Year: 5/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 113-134
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Croatian