literature that finds syncretism impossible

syncretism is impossible within the power relations of colonial society because such a context traps the writer in the libidinal economy of the ‘imaginary.’

Hence, becoming reflexive about its context, by confining itself to a rigorous examination of the ‘imaginary’ mechanism of colonialist mentality, this type of fiction manages to free itself from the manichean allegory (p. 19 2024-04-30#10:19