Trauma, Betrayal and the Resistance: a marxist analysis of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o’s Weep Not, Child and Matigari
This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2022.
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10361-172222022-09-18T21:01:41Z Trauma, Betrayal and the Resistance: a marxist analysis of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o’s Weep Not, Child and Matigari Hussain, Rusafa Noman, Abu Sayeed Mohammad Department of English and Humanities, Brac University Ngũgĩ wa Thiong Weep Not Child Matigari Kenyan landscape This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2022. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 58-60). This paper aims to discuss Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s novels, Weep Not, Child (1964) and Matigari (1986), by examining the class exploitation of the Kenyan people both during the colonial rule, and in the postcolonial Kenyan landscape. In doing, this thesis explores the economic structures that confine the working class into a system of oppression under corporate greed, the betrayal of the government and local elites of the Kenyan society who took up the mantle of class exploitation granted to them by the ex-colonisers, and the mental colonisation and trauma that emerges from continued subjugation. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s stance on these class and power dichotomies will be highlighted in the paper, as he emphasised the need to form a resistance in the wake of oppression and to fight back against injustices that still persists before and after the Kenyan independence. Rusafa Hussain B.A. in English 2022-09-18T09:18:12Z 2022-09-18T09:18:12Z 2022 2022-05 Thesis ID 19103006 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/17222 en Brac University theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 60 pages application/pdf Brac University |
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