Mustapha Kharoua has been in the profession of teaching English as a Foreign Language since 1999. Besides teaching at the American Language Center, he has worked as a lecturer and organizer of cultural activities at the University of Ibn Zohr, Agadir, Morocco. He has earned a PhD from the University of Eastern Finland in the field of Postcolonial Trauma Narratives of African Refugees and Diaspora. Mustapha Kharoua has also obtained certificates of Teaching Methodology from Oregon State University, Corvallis, USA, and Worldport College, Ontario, Canada. He is a member of the Research Laboratory « Values, Society and Research » (LVSD) at the University of Ibn Zohr, Agadir and the co-founder of the project ELTPP (English Live Theater Performance as Presentation). His career in research includes writing articles, giving presentations in national and international conferences in the fields of Postcolonial Studies, Teaching Methodology and Performance Arts.
As a searing narrative which grapples with the trauma of the past, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's nov... more As a searing narrative which grapples with the trauma of the past, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) has managed to garner quite considerable critical acclaim. Acknowledging the nuances of documenting the violence inflicted upon the Igbo people in Nigeria in the 1967-1970 war, this postcolonial text convincingly rethinks the narrative of trauma beyond the event-based paradigm. Out of responsibility, its pressing demands for justice against the enduring effects of colonialism typify postcolonial trauma theory's attempt at probing into the everyday suffering of African subjects. Reading Adichie's text through Michael Rothberg's notion " traumatic realism " , this article examines the novel's attempt to both document the past and to implicate the Western reader. To resist objectification, the novel sets out to redirect the attention of the reader toward the " pogroms " committed on racial grounds. The main focus will be on Ugwu's rewriting the enduring effects of colonial violence in post-generational terms and of blurring the boundaries between the extreme and the everyday.
Abdulrazak Gurnah's novel By the Sea (2001) is a compelling narrative of the trauma of displaceme... more Abdulrazak Gurnah's novel By the Sea (2001) is a compelling narrative of the trauma of displacement in postcolonial Africa. Set mainly between Zanzibar and Britain, it brings into focus the trauma of imprisonment as a defining feature of dislocation and unbelonging in postcolonial African cultures. The work critiques the forces of separation bred by racism in nationalist discourse, forces that act as the legacies of colonialism that limits the freedom of the oppressed colonial Other. This article supplements Michael Rothberg's notion of " traumatic realism " with Paul Gilroy's concept of " camp mentality ". I argue that the novel's underlying purpose is to bear responsible witness to nationalist racism in Zanzibar and Britain as a holdover of the same ideological structures that made colonialism and slavery possible. As a bystander of the trauma of postcolonial displacement, the diasporic Zanzibari writer's narrative seeks to break free from the discursive and literal restrictions of a world marked by the racial division of subjectivities into " units of camps " .
As a searing narrative which grapples with the trauma of the past, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's nov... more As a searing narrative which grapples with the trauma of the past, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel Half of a Yellow Sun (2006) has managed to garner quite considerable critical acclaim. Acknowledging the nuances of documenting the violence inflicted upon the Igbo people in Nigeria in the 1967-1970 war, this postcolonial text convincingly rethinks the narrative of trauma beyond the event-based paradigm. Out of responsibility, its pressing demands for justice against the enduring effects of colonialism typify postcolonial trauma theory's attempt at probing into the everyday suffering of African subjects. Reading Adichie's text through Michael Rothberg's notion " traumatic realism " , this article examines the novel's attempt to both document the past and to implicate the Western reader. To resist objectification, the novel sets out to redirect the attention of the reader toward the " pogroms " committed on racial grounds. The main focus will be on Ugwu's rewriting the enduring effects of colonial violence in post-generational terms and of blurring the boundaries between the extreme and the everyday.
Abdulrazak Gurnah's novel By the Sea (2001) is a compelling narrative of the trauma of displaceme... more Abdulrazak Gurnah's novel By the Sea (2001) is a compelling narrative of the trauma of displacement in postcolonial Africa. Set mainly between Zanzibar and Britain, it brings into focus the trauma of imprisonment as a defining feature of dislocation and unbelonging in postcolonial African cultures. The work critiques the forces of separation bred by racism in nationalist discourse, forces that act as the legacies of colonialism that limits the freedom of the oppressed colonial Other. This article supplements Michael Rothberg's notion of " traumatic realism " with Paul Gilroy's concept of " camp mentality ". I argue that the novel's underlying purpose is to bear responsible witness to nationalist racism in Zanzibar and Britain as a holdover of the same ideological structures that made colonialism and slavery possible. As a bystander of the trauma of postcolonial displacement, the diasporic Zanzibari writer's narrative seeks to break free from the discursive and literal restrictions of a world marked by the racial division of subjectivities into " units of camps " .
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