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• W331359328 abstract "ABSTRACTThe paper analyzes the trauma of colonialism in Ferdinand Oyono's Une Vie de Boy. Little scholarly work has been done on the analysis of colonial trauma in the creative texts written by Francophone postcolonial writers. This is a gap that this article attempts to successfully fill using Une Vie de Boy as a primary source of data analysis. Textual analytical approach is adopted as the denning variable to analyze colonial trauma in Ferdinand Oyono's Une Vie de Boy. With this approach, various samples from the novel are extracted and analyzed to show the degree of the protagonist's traumatic experience in the hands of his colonizers before his tragic death. What this article makes clear is the extent to which it is necessary when confronting the realities of colonial trauma to acknowledge the violence perpetrated not only by the colonizers but also by those who were once subject to colonial trauma as seen in Toundi's lather. Oyono maintains a focus on the actual, historical and social brutality, as well as the great role that this literary work possesses in enabling such a traumatic experience to be articulated. In this era of continued global trauma, this work is engaging and makes a good contribution to existing works on francophone postcolonial literature. The paper concludes that the traumatic experience of the protagonist articulates the evils, sufferings and injustice prevalent during the colonial period in Cameroon. By extension, the brutality of Toundi's father explains the typical effect of colonial rule in Africa.INTRODUCTIONScholars of African literature have often affirmed that the African writer is supposed to be the spokesman of his people, whose cultural values and aspirations he has presumably tried to express. Oyono, among these writers, has supported this view in his literary text. African literature manifests on the triple nature: functional, collective, and committed Senghor (1964:207). This nature is also present in Oyono's Une Vie de Boy whose epistemological vigilance is broadly known. Characteristically, Francophone literature is revolutionary and therefore, cannot develop the themes of love in its entirety. The strategy behind literary production in Africa is reflected in the desire to produce a text that does not express a regional ideological sentiment but a global one. The texts written by the early Negritude writers, aspire to become books with a status comparable to those attained in Europe by writers like Breton, Eluard and Desnos. Pigment (1937), Cahier d'un Retour au pays natal (1939) are, first and foremost 20th century literary texts that give expression to the author's personal experiences as well as to the preoccupations of an era marked by totalitarianism and racism. In this way, Negritude refused to enter into the game of Europe's recognition of Africa. Hence, Africa presented itself in the form of a parole that is valuable in its own right by this; the notion of an African author was born. Oyono is a class among these newborn African authors who writes for the African masses while articulating their particular historical situation and colonial experience. His belief is that the only authentic path to national an pan-African consciousness is to preach against colonial brutality and the Western process of acculturation.COLONIALISM IN AFRICA: A BRIEF INTRODUCTIONThe French colonial policies came into existence in Cameroon immediately after the Berlin conference of 1884 and 1885. France introduced in her African colonies the policy of assimilation. Under this policy, the colonies were considered as 'territoire d'outre -mer', or overseas provinces of France. The policy of assimilation was a policy of identity, meant to replace the culture, language, religion, law and even the mode of dressing, and eating habits of the African race with that of the way of life of the French people. In other words, the French policy of assimilation focused on the closer integration of the colonies with the metropolis. …" @default.
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• W331359328 title "The Trauma of Colonialism in Ferdinand Oyono's Une Vie De Boy" @default.
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