Subversion of Colonial Ideology and Reconstruction of Suppressed Black’s History in Bouchereb’s Days of Glory

Abstract

This thesis examines the issue of subversion of colonial ideology and reconstruction of suppressed black’s historyin Rachid Bouchereb’s movie Days of Glory. The main objective of this study is to pit out the post colonial discourse of resistance against the hegemonic representation of Africans in a colonial narrative. In this connection, this thesis argues that the glory and bravery of the North African soldiers tend to threaten the white men’s legacy to save their honor, bringing the discourse of racial superiority. Thus, this study aims at deconstructing the binaries centrally located in Bouchereb’s movie Days of Glory. By doing so,the study also aims at acknowledging the importance of Africans in the mission to liberate France from German Nazism. This study dramatizes the logic of the discriminatory treatment of the Colonial Africans by the White French as shown inDays of Glory.French racist attitude towards North African in the military branch and the concept of other has been presented in the movie. Though the North African military force has been dominated before the war but they aretaken as the best soldiers at the time of battle. So the movie presents the racist attitude towards the North Africans.