LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 18:7 July 2018
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Negritude and the Ubiquity of Western Imperialism in
Ngugi’s Weep Not Child

Dr. Olive Thambi
F. Gabriela Sabatini, Ph.D. Research Scholar


Courtesy: https://www.amazon.com/Weep-Child-Penguin-African-Writers/dp/0143106694

Abstract

Ngugi WAThiong’o is a prolific writer, poet, critic, essayist, columnist and a playwright. He is a proficient speaker and a confident political writer. He is known for his profundity and his unflinching ability to delineate the current scenario of the Kenyan society. This paper attempts to epitomize the concept of Negritude, and the imperialistic atrocities in the pre-independent Kenya. Ngugi enlivens the importance of Negritude among his characters in his novel Weep Not, Child.

Introduction

Negritude is a literary and philosophical movement that reaffirms traditional African culture and traces its origins to the former French colonies of Africa and the Caribbean. Negritude writers, and poets focus estrangement from the traditional African culture and they fought against European imperialism. They gave importance to the traditional black culture and identity to bring back the African culture. The writers emphasize that the African culture implicates natural beauty and humanism among the people, whereas the western civilization failing short to generate moral values and natural bliss.

The negritude movement was brought about by Aime’ Cesaire, Leon-Gontran Damas and Leopald Sedar Senghor. They published the journal Leitudiant noir , which gave birth to the Negritude movement. This term Negritude itself was not coined until 1939, after the poem written by Aime Cesaire Return to my native land. Negritude concepts are widely spread after World War II by the publication of anthologies de la nouvelle poesie negre at malgache de langue francaise which is a poem written by Senghor in 1948. Negritude developed the attitude of resistance and denial towards colonialism. There were protests and revolts against the colonial system.

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Dr. Olive Thambi
Asst.Professor
LRG Govt. Arts College for Women
Tirupur

F.Gabriela Sabatini, Ph.D. Research Scholar
LRG Govt. Arts College for Women, Tirupur
gabrielafrancis177@gmail.com

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