“Sexing African Time and Space”: the Fetish of the Colonial Gender
Loading...
Date
2020
Authors
Wachira, Ibrahim
Muhia, Mugo
Kaigai, Kimani
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Journal of Law and Social Sciences
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
Description
A Research Article in the Journal of Law and Social Sciences
Keywords
Colonial gender, (Neo)-colonialism, Sexed time and space
Citation
Wachira, I., Muhia, M., & Kaiga, K. (2020). “Sexing African Time and Space”: The Fetish of the Colonial Gender. Journal of Law and Social Sciences, 4(2), 29-39.