Zur Darstellung des Antihelden in der deutschsprachigen und afrikanischen Erzählliteratur des 20. Jahrhunderts: Eine Untersuchung am Beispiel von Friedrich Dürrenmatts „Die Panne“ und „Der Zwiespalt des Samba Diallo“ von Cheikh Hamidou Kane
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2023Author
Glamy, Junior E
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In the literary landscape or in narrative literature, characters are at the centre of the plots.
From ancient literature with the epic to modern times with the narrative form of the novel,
characters are most important to the narrative. However, how they have been represented over
time shows a development that clearly demonstrates how characters have been represented from
the beginnings of literature to postmodern times and what this representation has to do with
their epoch and its value systems. With the epic, the characters portrayed were warrior heroes
to whom certain virtues were attributed and who corresponded to the zeitgeist of their epoch,
i.e. an epoch in which man was in harmony with society. The novel is, according to Georg
Lukács (1916), the modern form of the epic, but it marks the alienation of the individual in
modernity, where characters increasingly function as counter-images or extensions of classical
heroes. In this respect, modern narrative literature gives rise to anti-heroes that are more in line
with the new aesthetic demands. However, as Fotis Jannidis (2004) points out, narrative
research on character theory does not remain exhaustive, because literary studies has not yet
done extensive research to the weighty role of the character. This paper therefore intends to
study the construction of the antihero in the 20th century with the help of two literary spaces in
order to show exactly how antiheroes emerge in different cultural contexts and what this
emergence symbolises and represents for their respective societies. The narrative texts "Die
Panne" by Friedrich Dürrenmatt and "Der Zwiespalt des Samba Diallo" by Cheikh Hamidou
Kane are used for this investigation. Socio-historical aspects were taken into account to allow
the connection of the portrayal of the anti-hero with the social story to emerge, as in "Die
Panne". Emphasis was also placed on how, in the context of 20th century African literature,
colonisation contributed to the emergence of the anti-heroic and how " Der Zwiespalt des
Samba Diallo " attempts to deconstruct colonial discourse.
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University of Nairobi
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