Ambivalence in Parts Unknown and The Lie of the Land: a post colonial approach

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dc.contributor.authorMasiziani, David Masene
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-19T05:56:10Z
dc.date.available2021-10-19T05:56:10Z
dc.date.issued2021-03
dc.descriptionTHESIS PRESENTED IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF ENGLISH AND APPLIED LINGUISTICS AT THE NAMIBIA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (NUST)en_US
dc.description.abstractAfrica was colonised and subjected to brutal colonial rule. Namibia, is no exception, in fact, the country went through two brutal colonial powers; imperial Germany, and the South African regime, which subjected Namibia to an apartheid rule, a localised form of colonialism fitted to oppress Africans. Between the two, the imperial German rule was crueler, resulting in genocide. The 1904-1908 genocide by the Germans against the Ovaherero and Nama people of Namibia is a horrible and unforgettable history. This dark history, forgotten and ignored by the Germany government for over a hundred years, has seen much criticism over the resent past year. Many critiques argue that the Germany army committed acts of annihilation, which the current Germany government need to pay reparations for. This history has seen four novels published about it, and hundreds of articles and research papers interrogating the genocide. This thesis explores ambivalence in two of the four published Namibian literary works on this history: Zirk van der Berg’s Parts Unknown (2018) and Jaspar Utley’s The Lie of the Land (2017). These works of literature explore acts of rape against black women by the German army, acts of discrimination and inferiority complex painted on the natives by ‘superior’ Germany. They record acts of annihilation aimed at depopulating the country of its natives. They record a slaughter of innocent women and children, and unarmed surrendered men. The study explores the shifting nature of the relationship between the coloniser and the colonised. It traces the ambiguities by examining the language used by the characters, and the cruel descriptions of the colonial war. The aim of this research is to enable the reader to understand how colonisation impacted the relationship between blacks and whites. This is a qualitative, desktop study grounded on Homi Bhabha’s postcolonial concept of ambivalence as its theoretical framework.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMasiziani, D. M. (2021). Ambivalence in Parts Unknown and The Lie of the Land: a post colonial approach [Master's thesis: Namibia University of Science and Technology].en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.nust.na:8080/jspui/handle/10628/803
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherNamibia University of Science and Technologyen_US
dc.subjectThesisen_US
dc.subjectNamibiaen_US
dc.subjectpostcolonialismen_US
dc.subjectambivalenceen_US
dc.subjectgenocideen_US
dc.subjectreparationsen_US
dc.subjectcultureen_US
dc.subjectidentityen_US
dc.titleAmbivalence in Parts Unknown and The Lie of the Land: a post colonial approachen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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