Subversion and resistance in The last tragedy

Abstract

Texts “labeled” as postcolonial offer reflections regarding the conflicting routes that as they are developed in the in between cultural space (Bhabha, 2011) unveil the circumscribed fragmentation of identity formations. The Last Tragedy by Abdulai Sila recounts the saga of Ndani, “catechized” by Portuguese colonizers. In transit between (Biombo) and the capital (Bissau) he seeks to affirm his identity and alterity in the tensions of ambivalence between the colonizer, confident of his powers, and the colonized who seek their rights. The intention in this paper is to identify how these guiding contributions of “standards” and identity “fixations” are shaken by the deconstructions of the alleged dependence complex of the colonized.