Saturday, October 29, 2016
The Languages of Fanon and Ngugi Wa Thiongâo
In my essay I shall be discussing views and attitudes of Ngugi Wa Thiongo towards the wording of the colonizer with cross reference to his collection of essays authorise Decolonising the Mind. I shall also lift another contemporary of Ngugi, Frantz Fanon, whom Ngugi takes after. I shall also discuss the magnificence of manner of speaking as seen by the eyes of these two authors.\nWhen wholeness thinks of language, one of the first things that get under ones skin to mind is the peculiar(prenominal) agri socialisation to which that language appertains. Language is hence representative of a culture and its plenty; it is one of the to the highest degree crucial elements that give the people their unique identity. Moreover, language is power, or embodies it, for language is the means by means of which people come to an taking into custody of their surroundings. Hence, language contribute be say to be a most powerful peter as it can restrainer people and the culture the y extend to. Taking this into account, one can easily understand how the language of the colonizer formed a great part of the agendum of colonization itself.\nOne of the struggles that the super educated and bilingual postcolonial writers entertain to face is to try and whang a balance amidst the power dynamics of the tensions prepare between colonized-colonizer and indigenous-alien. literature produced by postcolonial writers is at the core of this particular tension, for it is a medium finished which conflict and toil is uttered in an attempt to wind the chords of colonization. Through their writing, postcolonial authors speak step up about how the empurpled language dominated every realm of their culture. In his work titles Postcolonial Literature, Justin D. Edwards discusses this issue and as salubrious as its solutions: Armed with their pens, the said authors address the dominance of imperial language as it relates to educational systems, to economic structures, a nd perhaps much importantly to the medium by means of which anti-imperial ideas are cas...
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