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Volume 10, Issue 2, June 2025

Research Article
Weaponizing Language and Asserting Identity in the Plays of Derek Walcott and Bate Besong

Emmanuel Nchia Yimbu^*

Issue: Volume 10, Issue 2, June 2025

Pages: 31-40

Received: 15 February 2025

Accepted: 3 March 2025

Published: 28 March 2025

DOI: 10.11648/j.ellc.20251002.11

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Abstract: This paper examines the role of language in postcolonial literature and argues amongst other things that language was a veritable weapon for colonial oppression and domination. It also focuses on the attempts made by Derek Walcott and Bate Besong to reassert their cultural identities through the innovative and experimental use of language. To effec... Show More

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