Volume : VI, Issue : IV, April - 2017

Fanonism and Constructive Violence in Petals of Blood

Tasnim Amin

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 The 1977 novel Petals of Blood by Ngugi Wa Thiong’o deals with the independent Kenya where the neocolonialism was taking place of the colonial rulers and the struggle even rise in the remote obscure village Ilmorog. The novel at first demonstrates the disillusionment; about the loss of the ideal of independence and the destruction of hope; about betrayal and hypocrisy and about the triumph of corruption over humanity. Ngugi believes that imperialism, the power of dead capital, in its neocolonoial clothes will not be able to destroy the fighting culture of the African peasantry and working class. This paper will attempt to present Ngugi’s suggested way of redemption through violence as a constructive force to correct the neocolonialist society echoing the view of Fanon, who considers there is no other way than violence for the decolonization and this is rather a cleansing force for colonized people which redeem their inferiority complex.

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Tasnim Amin, Fanonism and Constructive Violence in Petals of Blood, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : VOLUME-6 | ISSUE-4 | APRIL‾2017

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