AN ANALYSIS OF THE ROLE OF COMPRADOR CLASS: A NEO-COLONIAL STUDY OF A CASE OF EXPLODING MANGOES BY HANIF (Published)
This paper is an endeavor to explore the damaging role played by comprador//bourgeois class in the fate of newly independent states by applying postcolonial theorist Fanon’s (2004) inferences about colonial legacy and its practitioners, the comprador elites. Hanif’s A Case of Exploding Mangoes (2008) is a critique of General Zia’s dictatorial regime when he abused the institutions of army and religion in the name of Islamization and played havoc with the political and constitutional set up of the state. Hanif dismantles Zia’s sham religiosity and exposes how he kept his people oppressed, deprived and in confusion sustaining an aura of serving the ideology of the people and the state.
Keywords: Colonialism, bourgeois, colonial legacy, comprador, neo-colonial, postcolonial
NEO-COLONIALISM IS A STAGE DESIGNED BY COLONIAL POWERS TO GIVE THE COLONIZED AN ILLUSION OF FREEDOM: A NEO COLONIAL ANALYSIS OF THINGS FALL APART (Published)
This research paper aims at exploring how neo-colonialism is an indirect survival of colonial system. The assumptions of Nkrumah and Young along with the supporting views of Sarte and Bhaba regarding neo-colonialism have been used as a major theoretical framework for this paper. The novel Things Fall Apart (1958) has been chosen to show that neo-colonialism is in fact killing of two birds with one stone. It shows that how white men indirectly started working on colonizing the minds of people. The new globe order does not allow the direct rule therefore specific local bourgeoisie class plays the role of middle man in transferring the nation’s wealth and resources to the ex-colonizers.
Keywords: Colonialism, Indirect rule, Neo-colonialism, Young