Resistance and Contemporariness in Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow
Introduction
African literature has come of age through several sections, from the scripts of prehistoric Egypt through the oral form of transmission, which celebrated human and supernatural achievement rendered in songs by court bards, griots, troubadours, public dances, and masks. Walter.J Ong points out that ‘such as the traditional oral stories, proverbs, prayers, formulaic expressions…alternatively, other oral productions of, say Lakota Sioux in North America or the Mendes in West Africa or of the Hellenic Greeks’ (11), …Drew from oral tradition. From Olaudah Equiano 1789 to the pre-colonial epoch that foisted western pattern of writing on the continent at the detriment of …show more content…
Correspondingly, this crop of literature tried the reenact African culture as equal to the colonial master as it served and guided the continent before the contact with the West. The arrowheads of this renaissance were the inimitable Chinua Achebe, Ngugi WA Thiongo and a host of other prominent African writers. These colossi straddled the fictional realm by challenging the jaundiced western portrayal of the African image to the world through their vociferously unapologetic writings. Prof James Tar Tsaaior allusion to Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe encapsulates this phase.
‘… Things Fall Apart has always refracted the classic novel as a literary project of the African periphery (re)writing back to the European centre in a determined and elemental bid to revision the mindless and extravagant misrepresentation of Africa and Africans by imperial Europe. The novel in this regard constitutes a corrective representational site for deconstruction and the reconstruction of the much-maligned image of the African continent through the epistemic aggression of Europe’
Introduction
African literature has come of age through several sections, from the scripts of prehistoric Egypt through the oral form of transmission, which celebrated human and supernatural achievement rendered in songs by court bards, griots, troubadours, public dances, and masks. Walter.J Ong points out that ‘such as the traditional oral stories, proverbs, prayers, formulaic expressions…alternatively, other oral productions of, say Lakota Sioux in North America or the Mendes in West Africa or of the Hellenic Greeks’ (11), …Drew from oral tradition. From Olaudah Equiano 1789 to the pre-colonial epoch that foisted western pattern of writing on the continent at the detriment of …show more content…
Correspondingly, this crop of literature tried the reenact African culture as equal to the colonial master as it served and guided the continent before the contact with the West. The arrowheads of this renaissance were the inimitable Chinua Achebe, Ngugi WA Thiongo and a host of other prominent African writers. These colossi straddled the fictional realm by challenging the jaundiced western portrayal of the African image to the world through their vociferously unapologetic writings. Prof James Tar Tsaaior allusion to Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe encapsulates this phase.
‘… Things Fall Apart has always refracted the classic novel as a literary project of the African periphery (re)writing back to the European centre in a determined and elemental bid to revision the mindless and extravagant misrepresentation of Africa and Africans by imperial Europe. The novel in this regard constitutes a corrective representational site for deconstruction and the reconstruction of the much-maligned image of the African continent through the epistemic aggression of Europe’