Decolonization, with or without the Mother Tongue: The Blinkards

The article develops the idea of an uncolonizable language as a language that belongs to all. This analysis contrasts Frantz Fanon's theorization of colonized societies in which the ideas of the mother tongue, indigenous cultural resources, and the struggle for self-representation are much less...

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Veröffentlicht in:Research in African literatures Jg. 55; H. 3; S. 17 - 27
1. Verfasser: Jeyifo, Biodun
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Indiana University Press 22.09.2025
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Criticism and interpretation
Decolonization
Dramatists
Friel, Brian (British playwright)
Native language
Playwrights
Portrayals
Sekyi, Kobina
Africa
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Abstract The article develops the idea of an uncolonizable language as a language that belongs to all. This analysis contrasts Frantz Fanon's theorization of colonized societies in which the ideas of the mother tongue, indigenous cultural resources, and the struggle for self-representation are much less salient, with critiques developed by other postcolonial and post-classical theorists and thinkers like Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Amilcar Cabral, Audre Lorde, Sylvia Wynter, Edouard Glissant, or Abiola Irele. To illustrate this argument, a reading of Kobina Sekyi's The Blinkards and Brian Friel's Translations asks readers to consider the racialization of English as the "language of whites" through the lens of colonial catachresis.
AbstractList The article develops the idea of an uncolonizable language as a language that belongs to all. This analysis contrasts Frantz Fanon's theorization of colonized societies in which the ideas of the mother tongue, indigenous cultural resources, and the struggle for self-representation are much less salient, with critiques developed by other postcolonial and post-classical theorists and thinkers like Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Amilcar Cabral, Audre Lorde, Sylvia Wynter, Edouard Glissant, or Abiola Irele. To illustrate this argument, a reading of Kobina Sekyi's The Blinkards and Brian Friel's Translations asks readers to consider the racialization of English as the "language of whites" through the lens of colonial catachresis.
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