دراسات أدبية
Volume 10, Numéro 2, Pages 211-224
2018-05-10

The Hidden Polemic Between Western Eurocentric Literature And African Post Colonial Literature

Authors : Mihoubi Houria .

Abstract

Abstract The present research paper is principally intended to comprehensively examine the contribution of Eurocentric literature to the emergence of African Post colonial Literature. Most Western critics had a firm belief that African literature was a reaction to the distorted image of Africa as portrayed in the Western Eurocentric literature. The present article thoroughly discusses the African reaction to the Eurocentric portrayal of Africa and the Africans which had often tended to portray all that is African in an extremely negative way to the Western reader. The paper focuses on Algerian literature as a case study .

Keywords

Keywords: African literatture, European literature, Euro centrism, Afro centrism, colonialism.