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

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dc.contributor.authorWachira, Ibrahim
dc.contributor.authorMuhia, Mugo
dc.contributor.authorKaigai, Kimani
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-17T10:04:28Z
dc.date.available2022-03-17T10:04:28Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionA Research Article in the Journal of Law and Social Sciencesen_US
dc.description.abstractThis 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 Africaen_US
dc.identifier.citationWachira, 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.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/23217
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Law and Social Sciencesen_US
dc.subjectColonial genderen_US
dc.subject(Neo)-colonialismen_US
dc.subjectSexed time and spaceen_US
dc.title“Sexing African Time and Space”: the Fetish of the Colonial Genderen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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