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“What’s an Old Man Like You Doing with a Saignante Like Me?”
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 2009 |
| Description | It has been the case that the fathers who give authority to patriarchy have gradually been reduced in modern fi ction. Either they become weak fi gures, ineffectual, disrespected, disreputable, despised, or monstrous and villainous. In other cases, they disappear altogether. In early African novels like Une vie de boy (1956), Mission terminée (1958), or Things Fall Apart (1958), the father's conventional role as head of the household is eroded, either by colonialism or by splits within the social fabric itself. This incipient weakness is refl ected in the failures to create a structure in which the sons will replace their fathers and continue the line of paternal power, thus reiterating the Law of the Father. The intervention of the “White Fathers,” whether priests, commandants, district administrations, or teachers, marks the anomalous period that Cheikh Amidou Kane evoked in his title “Ambiguous Adventure” (1961). At the end of the adventure, the path to patriarchal succession had become problematic. Book Name: Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations |
| Related Links | https://api.taylorfrancis.com/content/chapters/edit/download?identifierName=doi&identifierValue=10.4324/9780203872659-20&type=chapterpdf |
| Ending Page | 222 |
| Page Count | 17 |
| Starting Page | 206 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780203872659-20 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2009-09-11 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations Cultural Studies Fathers Adventure Structure Weakness Fi Gures Amidou Kane Early African Conventional Role Disappear Altogether |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
