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SUMMARY
This paper focuses on how Bhabha’s Stereotyping, Hybridity, and Mimicry are intertwined to portray the psychological effects of colonialism still inherent in our society using the two post-colonial texts, Heart of Darkness and Fragments. The Stereotyping in the two novels is realised in the way the views of the colonizer over the colonized are repeatedly played out in the form of savagery and cannibalism. Due to these repeated views, the blacks become alienated, fearful, and desire to be like their counterparts. We see a lot of instances in both novels. In Heart of Darkness, Kurtz and other white characters represent the European culture while the natives represent the African culture. In the text, the portrayal of the natives reflects the inferiority complex. They were not given a voice to air their views apart from the noise that emerge from them. It was not audible and comprehensible. Armah’s Fragments reflects the aftermath of the views made by the colonisers which is alienation. Baako and Naana are the characters that displays alienation in the novel. Both characters become lost in their culture which made find solace in aloneness.
