Curse and Blessing: A Postcolonial Study of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s The River Between

Volume 20 , Issue 3 , December 2019 , Pages 635-648

Authors

Kawan Othman Arif 1 ; Hemn Salahalddin Esamalddin 2

1 Department of English, College of languages, University of Sulamani, Kurdistan, Iraq

2 Sulaimani International Airport, Kurdistan, Iraq

DOI logo 10.17656/jzsb.10930

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Abstract

The title of this paper is “Curse and Blessing: A Postcolonial Study of Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s The
River Between”. Undeniably, colonialism is a political phase in history, known in the world as a
dark stage particularly in the colonized countries. Nonetheless, colonialism can also have some
bright aspects in addition to the calamities that it brought the colonized people. This paper studies
how both dark and bright sides of colonialism are reflected in The River Between. The novel is
written from the perspective of one of the colonized novelists which demonstrates and presents the
two sides of colonialism. On the one hand, we see curses which have been inflicted by colonialism
on the African people, which can be seen in the lives of characters such as ambivalence attitudes
and feelings and identity crisis. On the other, there are blessings of colonialism such as education,
public services and modern methods of administration that provide a more civilized frame to the
colonized people.

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