Hegemony and resistance in A Man of the People, Anthills of the Savannah and Purple Hibiscus: A postcolonial study

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dc.contributor.authorFrans, Sarafina Maano
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-11T08:08:54Z
dc.date.available2022-07-11T08:08:54Z
dc.date.issued2021-11
dc.descriptionTHESIS PRESENTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MASTER OF ENGLISH AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS SUPERVISOR: PROFESSOR SARALA KRISHNAMURTHYen_US
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this study was to investigate the concepts of hegemony and resistance in three postcolonial novels, A Man of the People, Anthills of the Savannah as well as Purple Hibiscus. The study also analysed how identity is constructed in the three novels. Qualitative research was used as the approach of the study with postcolonialism as the theoretical framework. The analysis was done in light of Frantz Fanon’s books, The Wretched of the Earth and Black Skin White, White Masks. The study was based on the argument that the colonial world has transformed the mind of the colonised in significant ways as the dominant groups tend to view the colonised people as being subordinate, making them subjects of their manipulation. It is this form of oppression that leads to the magnification of one culture at the expense of the other and consequently the shattering of identity. Based on the findings of the study, some major trends on hegemony were found in the three novels. The study found that there is still hegemonic rule in the postcolonial society. The following types of hegemony were found in the novels: personal hegemony, political hegemony, hegemony in education, globalisation hegemony, colonial hegemony, monetary hegemony, religious hegemony, cultural hegemony, and military hegemony. Resistance against hegemony in the three novels has been employed through educated intellectuals and using violence for freedom. The modes of resistance include the role played by the educated intellectual in resisting oppression, and the second one includes the violent ways in which the oppressed oppose their coloniser. The identity of the colonised, as portrayed in the novels, is one that is dislocated and separated from its native roots. The analysis on identity in all of the three novels reveals that the colonised society faces a crisis in identity, an alienated identity. However, the two novelists have tried to revive this deformed identity through fiction.en_US
dc.identifier.citationFrans, S. M. (2021). Hegemony and resistance in A Man of the People, Anthills of the Savannah and Purple Hibiscus: A postcolonial study [Master's thesis: Namibia University of Science and Technology].en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.nust.na:8080/jspui/handle/10628/896
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherNamibia University of Science and Technologyen_US
dc.subjectNamibiaen_US
dc.subjecthegemonyen_US
dc.subjectresistanceen_US
dc.subjectidentityen_US
dc.titleHegemony and resistance in A Man of the People, Anthills of the Savannah and Purple Hibiscus: A postcolonial studyen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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