期刊名称：Lapis Lazuli : an International Literary Journal
电子版ISSN：2249-4529
出版年度：2015
卷号：5
期号：1
出版社：Pinter Society of India
摘要：The Anglo-African postcolonial literature is profound and multi-messaged. The writers have shown resilience to evaluate the pre-independence era and its ramifications on post-colonial Africa with objectivity and accuracy. The present study appraises the concepts of .nation and nationalism. with reference to Mayombe and Petals of Blood, two successful novels from the postcolonial perspective. The former narrates the colonial hegemony of Portugal and how the same is countered and resisted with the help of nationalism. Petals of Blood on the other hand presents a post-colonial anarchy which emerges in the wake of liberation. The paper reviews how the ideas of nation and nationalism pave a way for independence and how the same independence turns into imperialism when people assimilate westernization by ignoring their local culture and national heritage
