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Why are We So Blest?

von Ayi Kwei Armah

Fiction Social Commentary Political Science

ISBN

0435901559

Verlag

London : Heinemann

Erschienen

01.01.1970

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Stichwörter

African literature postcolonialism neocolonialism revolution identity societal roles love and hate cultural conflict African diaspora American university elite critique social justice political awakening interracial relationships self-discovery literary fiction adult fiction Ayi Kwei Armah 20th-century literature African authors.

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Modin, an African scholarship student at an American university, examining his role in society, discovers a disturbing truth: the educational process is the mechanism for recruiting the neocolonial elite, Africa's blest rulers riding high at the expense of the wretched of the earth. Rejecting the elite destiny, Modin seeks initiation into revolution. But he is emotionally tied to the West: he loves an American girl. Rejected by the revolutionaries, Modin and his white companion are forced to confront the true meaning of their love. Modin discovers it is indistinguishable from hate.