مجلة الرسالة للدراسات والبحوث الإنسانية
Volume 10, Numéro 4, Pages 202-210
2025-12-01
Tracing The Modernist Influence On The Post-colonial Fiction: Using Polyphony As A Device For Resistance In Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments
Authors : Senouci Zakarya .
Abstract
This article examines how Modernist literary devices influenced postcolonial fiction by closely examining Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments, with emphasis on the use of polyphony as a tool for resistance. The study considers how Armah appropriates and modifies Modernist narrative techniques to subvert colonial and neocolonial discourses, drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of polyphony and placing it within postcolonial theoretical frameworks. The article uses a qualitative textual analysis to show how the novel's many independent voices work to undermine dominant colonial narratives, highlight under-represented viewpoints, and express a shared fight for identity and agency in postcolonial Ghana. This study adds to larger conversations on the connections between Modernism and postcolonial literature by demonstrating how polyphony serves as ideological contestation and cultural resistance, underscoring the literary form's enduring importance as a tool for political participation and decolonisation.
Keywords
Bakhtin ; Modernismn ; Narrative Resistance ; Point of view ; Polyphony ; Postcolonial Fiction
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