Representation of Ideology and Violence in Chinua Achebe’s There was a country and Ibrahim Bangura’s the 24th son
| dc.contributor.author | Boudjnah Aziz | |
| dc.contributor.author | Abbane Tarek | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-02-10T09:22:06Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-02-10T09:22:06Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description | 73p. ; 30cm(+CD-Rom) | |
| dc.description.abstract | This research investigates the ideological stances and means of violence in the Nigerian and Sierra Leonean civil wars as depicted in Chinua Achebe's there was a country: a personal history of Biafra and Ibrahim Bangura's the 24th son (2023). On the basis of the three concepts issued by Karl Mannheim on ideology in his book Ideology and utopia (1936) and the theory of violence used by Danny Hoffman in his book The war machine young man and violence in Sierra Leone and Benin alongside Stathis N. Kalyvas’s The logic of violence in civil war (2000), this research seeks to shed light on the implications of ideology and violence in the Nigerian and Sierra Leonean civil wars. We shall deploy a case study approach: the analysis of the ideological differences between the ruling parties, the role of ethnic tensions in the conflict, the use of violence, and their impacts on the populations. By applying this approach, we reached these findings: first, we identified the ideological stances and purposes of all the parties involved in the conflicts; moreover, we extracted the means of violence used during the conflict; and finally we explored the relation between ideology and violence as depicted in the two memoirs. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Literature and Civilization | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.ummto.dz/handle/ummto/26506 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Mouloud Mammeri University | |
| dc.subject | Ideology | |
| dc.subject | Violence | |
| dc.subject | Civil wars | |
| dc.subject | Memoirs | |
| dc.title | Representation of Ideology and Violence in Chinua Achebe’s There was a country and Ibrahim Bangura’s the 24th son | |
| dc.type | Thesis |