Resilience of Tradition in Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and The Jewel (1963) and Ama Ata Aidoo’s Anowa (1970)
Loading...
Date
2021
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Mouloud Mammeri University
Abstract
This piece of research is a postcolonial comparative study of Wole Soyinka’s The Lion and
The Jewel (1963) and Ama Ata Aidoo’s Anowa (1970). To carry out this study, we have
relied on Homi K. Bhabha’s The Location of Culture (1994). We have focused on the
affinities in the two authors’ misrepresentation of the traditional and modern thought and their
cultural and social system. We have also dealt with the term Hybridity in both works and
studied the authors’ point of view towards the postcolonial era. Our work has not only been
restricted to the study of similarities and differences between the two works, but also the
examination of Soyinka’s and Aidoo’s different approaches to celebrate and consolidate their
respective traditions. Both Soyinka and Aidoo portray the theme of marriage and its aspects
and how the traditional of marriage are obligatory in Africa in opposite to the modern one.
The aim of our study revealed that both Soyinka and Aidoo expressed the inequality between
two different worlds and two different sex male and female consciously or unconsciously.
Description
59p. ; 30cm(+CD-Rom)
Keywords
Postcolonial, Homi K. Bhabha’s the Loction of Culture, Hybridity, Gender, Marriage and Tradition
Citation
General and Comparative Literature