Mongo Beti’s Mission To Kala (1957) : A Cultural And Psychological Interpretation

Résumé: This research paper studies the aspects of cultural and psychological interpretation in Mongo Beti‟s Mission to Kala (1957). To achieve our goal, we have relied on Raymond Williams‟s theory of cultural Materialism developed in his book The Long Revolution (1961). Our work is made up of two chapters. In the first chapter, we have studied the notions of Dominant, Residual and Emergent in cultures to determinate the important features which highlight the cultural process in society. In the second chapter, we have analyzed Individuals within society who are represented as The Subject, The Rebel and The Exile to understand culture as a source of individual wholeness and authenticity of community. The main concern of this dissertation is a cultural study. It aims at explaining the different types and characteristics of culture in society and the classification of individuals in society. At the end we have attained a conclusion, that Mission to Kala reveals the tensions of modernity and tradition. Like almost all the African authors of his generation, Mongo Beti had to reconcile his inherited African background and his Western education in his novel for the purpose of describing the real cultural process which is producing individuals‟ evolution

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