Neo-colonialism And Hegemony Injames Ngugi’sdevil On The Crossandkatebyacine’smohamed Prends Ta Valise

Résumé: The present dissertation has compared James Ngugi’s Devil on the Cross (1982) and Yacine Kateb’s Mohamed prend ta valise (1971). It has investigated the way these authors reveal the issue of neo-colonialism dimensions and the hegemonic system in the world of the Kenyan novelist James Ngugi and the Algerian playwright Yacine Kateb. To examine this point, this dissertation has brought into focus the influence of the authors’ backgrounds on their satirical portrayal of the intellectuals’ plan to perpetuate the colonial like system in both countries. This research has also examined the notion of hegemony and its implementation on the mother land of both committed writers’ of Ngugi and Kateb. To reach these aims, this paper has relied on Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth (1961) and Antonio Gramsci’s Theory of Hegemony. The analysis of Ngugi and Kateb works has revealed that both authors believed that the corrupted intellectuals are the main responsible for their countries incomplete independence. Another finding is that both authors tend to demonstrate the intellectuals camouflaged ways of continuing the hegemonic agencies of the prior colonizer. We reached that committed literature, regardless of their literary genre, can be equally used as a powerful mean to denounce and struggle against the local exploiters.

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