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Abstract
The aim of the dissertation is to shed light on the concept of double colonization, its aspects and its impact on peoples of the third world countries who are doubly colonized by imperial power and tradition, custom, myth and patriarchy. Besides, it highlights the relationship between colonization and slavery and their impact on the colonized men and women. This dissertation is divided into three chapters preceded by an introduction and followed by a conclusion. The introduction defines the concept of double colonization. In addition, it presents a biographical background of the three playwrights; Wole Soyinka, Mahesh Dattani and Lynn Nottage, their theater and people who influenced their writings. Chapter one uncovers the theoretical framework of postcolonial literary theory and the development of the concept of double consciousness from the lens of W.E.B.DuBois (Black/White), Frantz Fanon’s dual consciousness (Self/Other) and Homi Bhabha’s hybridity (East/West) with regard to Edward Said’s contribution with his pioneer work, Orientalism (Occident/Orient). In addition, it crystalizes the concept of Subalternity (oppressor/oppressed) from the lens of Gayatri Spivak which is related to the dilemma of the colonized people’s (subaltern/margin) quest for identity. Besides, it focuses on double consciousness and the search for identity in the selected works of the three playwrights. Chapter two discusses the acts of authority and patriarchy exercised on the colonized in Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman (1975), Dattani’s where There’s a Will (1988) and Nottage’s Ruined ( 2008). Chapter Three depicts the sense of revolt and resistance against the western values in Soyinka’s The Lion and the Jewel (1959), Dattani’s Dance like A man (1989) and Nottage’s Mud, River, Stone (1997). The conclusion presents the main findings of the dissertation and an evaluation of the main points that have been clarified in the dissertation.