LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 12 : 12 December 2012
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Issues Confronting Postcolonial Societies in the Select Poems of
Esther Nirina and Lila Ratsifandriamanana

G. Vidya, M.A. (French), M.A. (English)

Abstract

After the independence of Madagascar from France in 1960, the new generation of Malagasy women writers wrote with a social commitment. They drew a dreary picture of their newly independent country: politics marked by corruption and abuse of power; socio-economic conditions marked by acute misery and injustice; and, the near impossibility of reconciling traditional values with the needs of emerging modern societies. These women writers, whose works were primarily in French, did not deny the importance of traditional values and Malagasy language and literature. Thus a new spirit of duality emerged among these women writers giving them their rightful place in the Malagasy society. This paper attempts to study some of the poems of Esther Nirina and Lila Ratsifandriamanana as reflections of issues confronting Postcolonial societies.

Keywords : Postcolonial, Malagasy, Poetry, Esther Nirina, Lila Ratsifandriamanana.

The New Generation of Francophone Writers

In 1960, Madagascar declared its independence from France, the colonial power. The sixty-four years of colonization had produced a Malagasy elite, who knew well that prestige had always been spelled in French, but, at the same time, did not deny the importance of traditional values and culture. While French was encouraged as an administrative and scholastic language, Malagasy remained in the intimate sphere of the family and as a language of creation, especially among the Poets. Thus emerged a new spirit of duality, wherein Malagasy culture and language acquired their rightful place and identity.

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G. Vidya, M.A. (French), M.A. (English)
Assistant Professor of French
Faculty of English and Foreign Languages
Gandhigram Rural Institute - Deemed University
Gandhigram – 624 302
Tamilnadu
India
widyag@gmail.com
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