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- Title
Onitsha ou le rêve de mon père: Le Clézio et le postcolonial.
- Authors
Miller, Robert Alvin
- Abstract
Can the descendant of a colonizer produce a postcolonial narrative? The young protagonist Fintan, arriving at Onitsha in the then British colony of Nigeria, rejects his colonialist father. Though drawn to his father's dream of an ancient migration of the queen of Meroë, Fintan's need to use the earlier generation's dream as an alibi for his own desire leads to narrative complexities reminiscent of the nouveau roman. Is Onitsha a postcolonial nouveau roman? Is it born out of some postcolonial cosmopolitanism (positing individual freedom, roaming through cultural differences) or a new globalized colonialism (positing stereotypes of the Other and global reproduction of the self as dominant culture)?
- Subjects
NIGERIA; POSTCOLONIAL literature; NEW novel (Literary movement); ONITSHA (Book); COLONIAL Africa
- Publication
International Journal of Francophone Studies, 2003, Vol 6, Issue 1, p31
- ISSN
1368-2679
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/ijfs.6.1.31/0