African Post-Disillusionment Novels

Jesutomi Orija

doi:10.25159/2663-6565/19380

Authors

Jesutomi Orija University of Ibadan https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4446-6518

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25159/2663-6565/19380

Keywords:

post-disillusionment, African novels, socio-political realities, postcolonial theory

Abstract

African novels are committed to representing various current social and political issues on the continent. Initially, African novels engaged the subject of disillusionment mainly from a post-independence standpoint. However, recently, many of them have not only spanned beyond post-independence disillusionment and begun interrogating cultural disillusionment, but they have also begun to represent various individual and collective responses to both political and cultural disillusionment. Therefore, in this paper, an attempt is made to examine the responses evoked by political and cultural disillusionment in the selected novels, with discussion anchored in postcolonial theory. This study shows that the selected novels depict certain socio-political experiences as responses to disillusionment.

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