Scholarly works in European Studies
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Item Understanding the colonial debate in postcolonial France(Department of French, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, 2016) Souleymane, A.Recent debates on colonialism and its repercussions in contemporary French societies have indicated a high level of postcolonial activities in France. However, the adoption and use of postcolonial theory by French critics is insignificant compared to its strides in the English-speaking world. This study examines recent opinions of French intellectuals on their colonial history with a view to establishing the trends in postcolonial criticism in the French literary world. The study adopted postcolonial criticism in as much as the issues discussed revolve round the aftermath of colonialism on the French societies. The low patronage of postcolonial theory in France was premised on the apathy of the French academics against a perceived Anglo-saxon invention, and the official posture of the French government to praise colonial adventure. The analysis also covered the anti-colonial intellectuals’ opinions about the French postcolonial identity, the re-appraisal of colonial history and efforts at decolonising the minds of the French society, including its government. The reflection of postcolonial issues in contemporary French societies provides a background to further the appreciation of literary works by postcolonial French writers such as Le Clézio and Michel Tournier.Item Poetique et psychologic de I’exil dans septieme printemps de Ramonu Sanusi(2012-06) Souleymane, A.; Duncan, O. S.In several postcolonial works of contemporary African writers, we observe that the legacy of the colonization is the inferiority complex of the former (ancient) colonized which believes that the acculturation in the western values and the migration to the West are the) keys to the economic, political and cultural safety (salute). In certain Works, the life in the West ends in a psychological shock of the exile because of the clash of the cultures and the climates. Ramonu Sanusi, a Nigerian bilingual writer produced by the interbreeding between Africa and the West, deals with the problem of the exile of the Africans in the western countries through a collection of poems entitled “Seventh spring”. Because our work discusses the personality of the poet in a post-independence context, we are going to use a psychological approach based on the postcolonial theory to position the poetic work of Sanusi in the postcolonial context of the bilingual Nigerian writers. The analysis of the theme of the exile in the poems of Sanusi will allow us to place the concerns of the poet in the problem of the exile through its causes and consequences, to see if the author is a simple observer or a stakeholder in the cultural context of his story. The analysis by archetypes according to the psychoanalysis of Jung will reveal us how the exile which begins as a quest ends in an initiation. From the illusory exile to the disappointment of the exile, the poet discovers that the Africans of the Diaspora have to return to Africa to end the dictatorship of the leaders and that Africa needs the competence of all the exiles to liberate her from the yoke of diseases and of all the troubles brought about by the economic underdevelopment