Cultural alienation and okot Bitek's use of satire in song of lawino
Published by : University of Burundi, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, department of english language and literature (Bujumbura) Physical details: IV-82 f.
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Okot (P'Bitek)."song of lawino". Alienation culturel (Thème)
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This work examined the question of cultural alienation and the author's use of satire in Okot P'Bitek's Song of Lawino. It tries to show how through modern education, a character distances himself from the culture and habits of his people.
It equally expresses the worries of a wife who the author might have used as the mouthpiece of the Acoli people of Uganda to castigate educated youth who is supposed to incarnate the future and the identity of the community.
This work sought to investigate how Acoli culture is denigrated by minds acculturated through colonialism in Okot P'Bitek's Song of Lawino. We equally try to show how the author employs satirical language to condemn this attitude of the youth who because of western education decide to despise rather than improve their culture and habits.
In this perspective, we intend to show how alienation is due to colonialism, and how Africans contributed to their acculturation by denigrating their own culture. With the use of New Historicism theory, this work is therefore based on the hypothesis that colonialism is the main cause of African cultural alienation.
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