Abstract:
This dissertation is a comparative study between two works, one by the Algerian writer
Mouloud Mammeri and the other one by the Ghanaian Ayi Kwei Armah. It aims to show
the way Le Sommeil du Juste and Fragments negotiate the issue of acculturation. The
study adopts a Post Colonial approach; it is based on the concepts of mimicry,
ambivalence and hybridity specifically, as developed by the Indian scholar Homi K.
Bhabha.
In their novels, the authors show the way African individuals use the colonizer’s
culture to re-appropriate their own, perverted by the colonial encounter. The writers point
out the immense opportunities young intellectuals have to offer their countries. The study
attempts to examine the authors’ converging views around the healing possibilities a
sound education can provide if used adequately
