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| DECONSTRUCTING EUROCENTRIC DISCOURSE AND RECREATING HISTORY: AFRICAN FICTION IN CONTEXT |
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| IMRAN AHMAD AND NADEEM JAHANGIR BHAT |
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| Ashok Yakkaldevi |
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| GRT-2322 |
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| Abstract : | |
| The representation of African culture and history in Eurocentric discourses was more or less a political affair to construct the image of the “Other” rather than an objective approach to highlight the historical and cultural ethos of the continent. This biased approach of the Eurocentric writers tempted the African writers to put their history and culture before the audience in a right perspective. The representation of Africa as an anti-thesis of what the European supposedly represents and the denigration of African culture and history at the hands of the Eurocentric writers invited a revisionistic approach from the African writers. The present paper aims at highlighting the means through which the colonizers of Africa constructed the image of Africa as “Other” and distorted its history and culture to debase it. The paper also aims to deconstruct the myth of Africa as Other and underscore the ways through which the African novelists attempted to present their culture and history in a right perspective through the medium of written discourse |
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