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T1 Ngugi's Ambivalent Cultural Discourse in "Moving the Centre"
A1 Bouhadiba, Malika
A2 Ediciones Universidad de Valladolid
K1 Filología Inglesa
AB This paper aims at exploring the ambivalence of Ngugi's cultural discourse in Moving the Centre. The major assumption held in this paper is that Ngugi's Universalist rhetoric is in stark opposition with his nativist discourse, with its Afrocentric undertones. Most of Ngugi's essays betray a cultural essentialism, first evidenced in his Manichean rhetoric. As will be demonstrated, Ngugi ' s collection of essays falls within the range of post-colonial counter hegemonic discourse, and bears the stamp of a strong cultural resistance.Ngugi's ambivalent discourse resides in his advocacy of cultural globalism together with his defence of cultural politics exclusively Pan-African and Third worldist. Another contention held in this paper is that despite the fact that Ngugi preaches cultural dialogue, he does not attempt to promote cross-cultural understanding, since he insists on cultural separatism, between the First and the Third World, and along class lines. Ngugi's multiculturalist agenda, being discriminatory, is henceforth, contradictory with the logic of a Universalist discourse. Cross-cultural understanding can only be promoted through a global dialogical intercultural approach.
SN 0210-9689
YR 2010
FD 2010
LK http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17383
UL http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/17383
LA spa
NO ES: Revista de filología inglesa, 2010, N.31, pags.45-54
DS UVaDOC
RD 24-nov-2024