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This article compares the ways that characters in two postcolonial novels negotiate their social positions through language use. The novels examined are Patrick Chamoiseau’s Solibo Magnifique from Martinique and Amadou Hampâté Bâ’s L’Etrange destin de Wangrin from Mali. Both texts depict characters using multilingual strategies to displace or subvert colonial power structures.

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Jonathon Repinecz

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