THE AMBIGUITY OF IDENTITY AND THE AMBIGUITY OF FORMATION IN AMBIGUOUS ADVENTURE BY CHEIKH HAMIDOU KANE AS A POSTCOLONIAL BILDUNGSROMAN

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (7) ◽  
pp. 215
Author(s):  
Petru GOLBAN ◽  
Derya BENLİ
Keyword(s):  
Hamidou Kane

Cheikh Hamidou Kane: Le Modèle et le possible

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-6
Author(s):  
Bacary Sarr
Keyword(s):  
Hamidou Kane

Shaming Colonial Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 67-103
Keyword(s):  
Legal Aspects ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Ousmane Sembene ◽  
Mongo Beti ◽  
Hamidou Kane ◽  
Ferdinand Oyono ◽  
Colonial Oppression

An examination of the ways in which shame was used during the colonial period both to encourage submission to the colonial project and to resist that oppression. The primary texts to consider are Le vieux nègre et la médaille by Ferdinand Oyono for its depiction of shame’s utility in maintaining social hierarchies and how, ironically, a shameful narrative can contest that power, Les Bouts de bois de Dieu by Ousmane Sembène, for its more strident shaming and addition of economic and legal aspects of shame, and Le pauvre Christ de Bomba by Mongo Beti and L’Aventure ambiguë by Cheikh Hamidou Kane for their inclusion of the role religious shame plays in colonial oppression.

scholarly journals Philosophical Quest and Growing up Motif in Ambiguous Adventure by Chiekh Hamidou Kane and Dead Men’s Path by Chinua Achebe

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (7) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Chigbu Andrew Chigbu ◽  
Ike Doris Ann Chinweudo ◽  
Chibuzo Martin Onunkwo
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Hamidou Kane ◽  
Epic Poem ◽  
Clear Vision ◽  
Personal Agents ◽  
Being There ◽  
The Individual

In literary tradition, some of the innovative and formative trends that characterise production and consumption of mimetic art in most third World countries of Africa focuses extensively on formation of the personal agents- specifically, the protagonist.This phenomenon has characterised most of the 21st Century texts and classed them under the literary sub-genre known as Bildungsroman. Bildungsroman is viewed primarily as a nineteenth-century literary phenomenon and the term is used so loosely and broadly that any novel – and even an epic poem like Iliad and Odyssey by Homer – that include elements of coming-of-age narrative might be labelled as a “Bildungsroman”.It is true that the type of novel commonly referred to as the “Bildungsroman” flourished in British literature in Victorian age, and was extremely popular among the realist writers. This accounts for early British publication of Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot and others who employed the pattern, for their novels of character formation into the fictional model of the Bildungsroman literature; a genre that consists of the literary treatment of the process of development and formation of a character in relation to society. As it were, the variety of Philosophical Bildungsroman is an advance variant of Bildung that offers the necessary extension and complexity to the phenomenological literary concern of Martin Heidegger, who posits the philosophical experience of the individual as the “Dasine”. Dasien is Heidegger’s philosophical concept which means “being there”. As a concept in existential philosophy, Heidegger employs it to explain the very concept of personhood. The philosophical quest in this case is attained through the process of “unconcealment” meaning “the disclosure of truth”. Meanwhile, in rethinking Ambiguous Adventure and Dead Men’s Path as typical Bildung texts, the real unconcealment will be extricated from the “thingly character or the constitutive elements” (Poetry Language Thought, 54)of the protagonists, so as to determine, and have a clear vision and beauty of a (realist) representation of these agent (s) maturing in relation to the modern demands of society woven in universalistic model of growth and development via social background. Thus, ‘‘beauty becomes one way in which truth occurs as unconcealdness’’ (The Origin of the Work of Art, 55). This is because in philosophical Bildung, the attainment of successful maturation remains the object of our inquiry and concern, and this is framed within a large-scale diachronic model of human existence; who engages in the act of “thinking a thought, this kind of thinking concerns the relation of being to man” (Letter to Humanism, 1) and remains the prototype of a true Bildung character and texts understudy, namely: Ambiguous Adventure and The Dead Men’s Path. Therefore, this paper opens up a new pattern of thought by investigating philosophical quest and growing up motif in this two novels using Heidegger’s notion of dasien and unconcealment.

Review: Cheikh Hamidou Kane: 'L'Aventure ambigue'

2003 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-116
Author(s):  
D. Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Hamidou Kane

Trauma as Double Wound in Shimmer Chinodya’s Harvest of Thorns

Matatu ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-179
Author(s):  
Bernard Otonye Stephen
Keyword(s):  
Ngugi Wa Thiong'o ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Ousmane Sembene ◽  
Traumatic Memories ◽  
Hamidou Kane ◽  
Colonial Experience ◽  
The Individual

The colonial experience in Africa left deep corporeal and psychic scars. The anti-colonial struggle involved bloody armed conflicts which left many dead and many more physically and psychologically maimed. Writers as diverse as Chinua Achebe, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Ousmane Sembène, and Shimmer Chinodya have variously addressed the cultural, material, racial, class, psychological, and ideological aspects of this unprecedented history. And literary critics have equally responded by examining African literary texts from cultural, Marxist, colonial, and post-colonial angles. However, given the traumatic experience of the struggle for independence, not much has been done by way of applying trauma theory to the study of African literary texts to illuminate Africa’s violent encounter with the racist imperialism of Europe. Employing the insights of Cathy Caruth, the essay analyses trauma’s characteristic double infliction of a wound on the individual in Chinodya’s anti-colonial novel Harvest of Thorns. The traumatic memories of the liberation war testify to the physical and psychic wounds inflicted on the individual and the community.

scholarly journals Utopies et angoisses de l’entre-deux identitaire chez les exilés/migrants africains : La Traversée nocturne d’Isaac Bazié

2009 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Alain Cyr Pangop Kameni
Keyword(s):  
Thomas More ◽  
Hamidou Kane

En tenant compte du contexte d’émergence et des contours de la notion d’utopie repérée chez Thomas More, la présente réflexion vise à présenter l’exemple de La Traversée nocturne d’Isaac Bazié, plus connu comme critique que comme auteur. Ce texte nous donne l’opportunité d’examiner le profil thématique et idéologique du roman francophone africain issu de l’immigration, en ce sens que La Traversée nocturne dit à la fois les difficultés de l’émigration, à la suite de Cheik Hamidou Kane, Alain Mabanckou et Fatou Diome, et celles de la vie au pays, dans le sillage de la critique sociale qui sous-tend le roman africain.

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