• English
    • français
  • English 
    • English
    • français
  • Login
View Item 
  •   Repository Home
  • Research Papers (RP)
  • RP-School of Humanities & Social Sciences
  • RP-Department of Literature
  • View Item
  •   Repository Home
  • Research Papers (RP)
  • RP-School of Humanities & Social Sciences
  • RP-Department of Literature
  • View Item
JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

“Sexing African Time and Space”: the Fetish of the Colonial Gender

Thumbnail
View/Open
Research article (300.2Kb)
Date
2020
Author
Wachira, Ibrahim
Muhia, Mugo
Kaigai, Kimani
Metadata
Show full item record
Abstract
This article examines how Alain Mabanckou uses sexual allegories in his novel Broken glass (2010) to express (neo)-colonial realities in which Africa is charmed by the West into assuming the role of the sexual subaltern. Mabanckou appears to reinvigorate the sexual allegories of rape and prostitution for expressing the penetrative tendencies of colonialism by affixing their connotations of exploitation to the harsh socio-economic and political realities of (neo)-colonialism, thus creating a motif which is termed in the article as the fetish of colonial gender. Its coalescent value might be of great interest in postcolonial studies since it reveals how neocolonialists ascribe the subaltern’s time and space with exploitable sex through the charm of global economy. The critical discussion is built on textual research methods and it highlights on the fabric that holds the neo-colonial relationship between the West and Africa
URI
http://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/23217
Collections
  • RP-Department of Literature [57]

Designed by Library ICT Team copyright © 2017 
Contact Us | Send Feedback

 

 

Browse

All of RepositoryCommunities & CollectionsBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjectsThis CollectionBy Issue DateAuthorsTitlesSubjects

My Account

LoginRegister

Designed by Library ICT Team copyright © 2017 
Contact Us | Send Feedback