Narrative Realism at the Interplay of Traditionality and Modernity in Ousmane Sembene’s God’s Bits of Woods and Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s The River Between

• Published in: International journal of comparative literature and translation studies Vol. 7; no. 2; p. 55
• Main Author: Ndour, Moustapha
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 30.04.2019

This paper articulates the interactions between a traditional and modern world as embodied by the colonizer and the colonized, focusing on Ousmane Sembène’s God’s Bits of Woods (1960) and Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s The River Between (1965). It argues that both narratives can be read as realist novels that...