Sixteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities

Abstract

The postcolonial period in which our research topic is inscribed produced a literary period in which authors looked into the calamity that had befallen mankind in terms of power conflict which reproduced slavery, colonialism, and capitalism without forgetting the two world wars which totally dehumanized mankind as a universal ontological fact. Due to egoistic interests, man’s nature got scattered away. Literary scholars observed that the social community was stratified into polarized binaries (civilized-primitive, free-slave, colonized-colonizer, West- East, capitalism-communism, man-woman, third world, and developed countries). As an attempt to redefine the oppressed identity within the post-colonial moment, our paper postulates that the ideologies that manufactured mankind’s mindset as rebelling against God, virtue, and moral absolutes constituted a barricade to an equilibrium between man and nature, and that a modern moral philosophy was of a great necessity to redefine and regulate mankind for his/her complete fulfillment. The paper also has a literary, linguistic, social, and global humanitarianism potential features which has much to offer to the field of literary and Modern Moral philosophy epistemology. Being articulated through a fictitious narrative, the paper explores critically Ngugi’s very first written novel, “Weep Not Child.” With a positive deconstructive lens, the paper confronts different ideologies (Marxism, feminism, orientalism) backing characters’ action, reaction, and interaction within the quest for equilibrium solely ending tragically to symbolize the entire twentieth and twenty-first worldwide failure to which mankind remains confronted due to the lack of a well-defined and disseminated Modern Moral philosophy. Thus, the paper ends highlighting Ngugi’s “Decolonizing The mind Theory” as a suitable tool for reconciling humanity. Such a theory submits literature discipline as a universal reconciliation space and sets forth new foundations which promotes peace, pacific cohabitation among nations, democracy, common development, and total mankind fulfillment.