阿切比小说中贫穷非洲领导人的后殖民主义:《上帝之箭》和《人民之人》细读

Confidence Gbolo Sanka, Patricia Gustafson-Asamoah, Charity Azumi Issaka
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本文旨在通过细读《上帝之箭》和《人民公仆》来追溯阿契贝小说中滥用权力和不负责任的根源,并将其发展到极致。对非洲领导层的失望,尤其是在非洲独立之后,在非洲文坛并不新鲜。但在阿奇贝看来,与非洲领导不力相关的问题并非在非洲独立后才开始出现。在独立后的大多数非洲国家,由于殖民残余的延续,领导的失败只会恶化。通过仔细阅读这两部小说,并运用后殖民理论,研究人员将《神之箭》中Ezeulu的传统世界与《人民公仆》中首领Nanga的后独立背景进行了比较。文章的结论是,非洲已经超越了后殖民主义的政治,现在处于后殖民主义阶段。为了使非洲人真正克服领导不力这一长期存在的问题,我们必须首先接受我们作为一个大陆在促成非洲领导失败方面的作用。此外,迫切需要鼓励基层参与和理解现代民主,建立更强有力的机构,并对滥用权力的人实施更严厉的惩罚。
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The Postcoloniality of Poor African Leadership in Achebe’s Fiction: A Close Reading of Arrow of God and A Man of the People
The paper aims at tracing the genesis of abuse of power and the irresponsibility that goes with it to its full blossoming in Achebe’s fiction through a close reading of Arrow of God and A Man of the People. Disenchantment with leadership in Africa, especially after independence, is not new on the African literary scene. But to Achebe, the problems associated with poor leadership in Africa did not start after independence. Failure in leadership only worsened in most African countries after independence due to the perpetuation of colonial vestiges. By doing a close reading of the two novels and by using the theory of postcoloniality, the researchers compare the traditional world of Ezeulu in Arrow of God to the post-independence setting of Chief Nanga in A Man of the People. The paper concludes that Africa has gone beyond the politics of post-colonialism and is now at the postcoloniality stage. In order for Africans to truly overcome the perennial problem of poor leadership, there is the need for us to first accept our role as a continent in contributing towards the failure of leadership in Africa. There is also the urgency to encourage grass root participation and understanding of modern democracy, to build stronger institutions and to put in place heavier punishments for those who abuse power.
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