Festival Of Pumpkins

Essay from the year 2010 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, Moscow State Pedagogical University, language: English, abstract: The essay is based on some of the short stories and novels by D. Lessing, which are centered around the colonization of Africa and ruthless suppression and ousting of African people''s cultural heritage. The title of the paper is an allusion to the phrase used in the story "The Old Chief Mshlanga". In the context of the story it can be regarded as a sustained metaphor: a festival of pumpkins symblises the vestiges of the recent dwellings of a big African familily that had been forced to retreat to a special reserve.