Date Available
12-9-2021
Year of Publication
2021
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Document Type
Master's Thesis
College
Arts and Sciences
Department/School/Program
Classical Languages and Literature
First Advisor
Dr. Jeffrey Peters
Abstract
This research explores how West African postcolonial literature offers a social critique of society, trapped between past and future, and how such a critique treats the ideas of feminism, westernization, and humanism. I then relate this analysis to the current theories of négritude and afropolitanism, as discussed in Sortir de la Grande Nuit by author Achille Mbembe, which creates a meaningful context and future implications for the ideas already examined. The primary text I am working with, because it covers a wide range of topics through social critique, and because the author is one of the first of her kind, is La Grève des bàttu by Senegalese author Aminata Sow Fall.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2021.483
Recommended Citation
Redding, Lauren, "La voix humaniste dans La Grève des bàttu" (2021). Theses and Dissertations--Modern and Classical Languages, Literature and Cultures. 9.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/mcllc_etds/9
