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Critiquing the Postcolonial Construct in Chinua Achebe’s Novels

Author : Ranjana Das Sarkhel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527522016
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Critiquing the Postcolonial Construct in Chinua Achebe’s Novels written by Ranjana Das Sarkhel and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinua Achebe’s novels have always been read as texts from an erstwhile colonised African nation, interpreted within the parameters suggested by postcolonial theorists. The confines of postcolonial readings have raised questions about when the ‘postcolonial’ period would end, so that writers would no longer need to ‘write back’ to the empire or ‘rewrite’ their histories. This work explores how Achebe’s novels articulate his knowledge of his own people and the manner in which he participates in the politics of representation. He critiques the postcolonial methodology, and seeks out, recovers and provides an alternative narrative of the postcolonial experience and its aftermath, even as he seems to be moving beyond it. Achebe’s narratives do not conform to the postcolonial constructs of history as telling (rather than recalling) and of nations in terms of states (rather than people). Achebe combines the techniques available to historians (documentation) with those of novelists (the imaginative re-creation of events) for his fictional evocation of the past. He emphasises both the African artists’ role in helping to create a more egalitarian society and that of the act of storytelling as a shaping force in people’s lives. As he negotiates between his narrative form and realistic subject matter, Achebe puts forward a powerful critique of colonisation and its aftermath. Achebe represents a canonical voice in the emerging discourse of writers struggling to break free from the clichéd world of anti-imperialism and decolonisation.

Critiquing the Postcolonial Construct in Chinua Achebe's Novels

Author : Ranjana Das Sarkhel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781527506695
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Critiquing the Postcolonial Construct in Chinua Achebe's Novels written by Ranjana Das Sarkhel and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinua Achebe's novels have always been read as texts from an erstwhile colonised African nation, interpreted within the parameters suggested by postcolonial theorists. The confines of postcolonial readings have raised questions about when the 'postcolonial' period would end, so that writers would no longer need to 'write back' to the empire or 'rewrite' their histories.This work explores how Achebe's novels articulate his knowledge of his own people and the manner in which he participates in the politics of representation. He critiques the postcolonial methodology, and seeks out, recovers and provides an alternative narrative of the postcolonial experience and its aftermath, even as he seems to be moving beyond it. Achebe's narratives do not conform to the postcolonial constructs of history as telling (rather than recalling) and of nations in terms of states (rather than people). Achebe combines the techniques available to historians (documentation) with those of novelists (the imaginative re-creation of events) for his fictional evocation of the past. He emphasises both the African artists' role in helping to create a more egalitarian society and that of the act of storytelling as a shaping force in people's lives. As he negotiates between his narrative form and realistic subject matter, Achebe puts forward a powerful critique of colonisation and its aftermath. Achebe represents a canonical voice in the emerging discourse of writers struggling to break free from the clich�d world of anti-imperialism and decolonisation.

Colonial and Postcolonial Discourse in the Novels of Yŏm Sang-sŏp, Chinua Achebe, and Salman Rushdie

Author : Sun-sik Kim
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820431123
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Colonial and Postcolonial Discourse in the Novels of Yŏm Sang-sŏp, Chinua Achebe, and Salman Rushdie written by Sun-sik Kim and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the psychological topography of Korean, Nigerian, and Indian people by exploring the counter-colonial discourse through the study of works by three writers - Yom Sang-Sop, Chinua Achebe and Salman Rushdie - counter-colonial discourse in the works of these three writers strikes back at powerful colonial discourses, Soonsik Kim successfully brings out the Third World «voice» against the colonial legacy of the West and gives readers a taste of being «the Other». This book marks a significant transition in the critical attention of Third World discourse from mere projection to subjective viewpoint.

Postcolonial Theory of Interdependence and Reflections in the Novels of Chinua Achebe

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Theory of Interdependence and Reflections in the Novels of Chinua Achebe written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Postcolonial Novel

Author : Richard Lane
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745632785
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Postcolonial Novel written by Richard Lane and published by Polity. This book was released on 2006-07-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Lane explores the themes surrounding the postcolonial novel written in English.

Satire and the Postcolonial Novel

Author : John Clement Ball
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135451559
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Satire and the Postcolonial Novel written by John Clement Ball and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-06-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satire plays a prominent and often controversial role in postcolonial fiction. Satire and the Postcolonial Novel offers the first study of this topic, employing the insights of postcolonial comparative theories to revisit Western formulations of "satire" and the "satiric."

The Four Novels of Chinua Achebe

Author : Benedict Chiaka Njoku
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Four Novels of Chinua Achebe written by Benedict Chiaka Njoku and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1984 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Four Novels of Chinua Achebe" is a critical study of Africa's foremost novelist by one of Africa's foremost critics. Offering a fresh, useful and unified collection of essays, the book contains exquisite prose analysis, distinctive in its sub- ject-matter and rhetoric. Analytically and philosophically, Dr. Njoku probes Achebe's fictional world with its realistic and naturalistic trends. Dr. Njoku follows Achebe as he examines the traditional life and cultures of the Igbo people in the nineteenth century, examines the village life of the people in their early years of contact with the Europeans, and carries us to the life and traditions of the people in the 1920s. To him "No Longer At Ease" is a novel of realism heightened by serious, social and psychological analysis, and it outlines the conflict between the idealism of a European-educated African and his attempt to re-integrate himself into the life of his people. The tragic consequences of Africa's encounter with Europe are evaluated. In "A Man of The People, " Dr. Njoku shows that intellectual sophistication is not everything as he contrasts Odili's intellectual brilliance with the pragmatic, naive, political wisdom of his foil, Chief Nanga.

Post-colonialism and Political Discourse in Chinua Achebe's Tetralogy

Author : Bamshad Hekmatshoar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781863351799
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Post-colonialism and Political Discourse in Chinua Achebe's Tetralogy written by Bamshad Hekmatshoar and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book studies four novels by Chinua Achebe-Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, Arrow of God, and A Man of People-so as to investigate how he has constructed his alternative discourse, a discourse which has been successful in providing a room where the colonized are given voices to speak and the reader has a chance to understand better their world and what they have confronted because of colonization. Since each novel focuses on a different colonial or postcolonial phase in Nigeria and Achebe has made use of different discursive strategies in each of them, it can be claimed that taking them as a tetralogy and studying them together can result in providing a vivid picture of Achebe's discourse and what his novels seek to mirror about the Nigerian hybrid identity and the colonized man's struggles in the way of dealing with 'otherness' and difference"--

Postcolonialism and Political Discourse in Chinua Achebe's Tetralogy

Author : Bamshad Hekmatshoar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781863351782
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonialism and Political Discourse in Chinua Achebe's Tetralogy written by Bamshad Hekmatshoar and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies four novels by Chinua Achebe in order to explore how the author constructed his alternative discourse to create a literary space that gives voice to the colonized.

Colonialism in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Author : Louise Hawker
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonialism in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart written by Louise Hawker and published by Greenhaven Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays that explore issues in Chinua Achebe's work Things fall apart.

Post Colonial Identities

Author : Ce, Chin
Publisher : Handel Books
ISBN 13 : 9783708570
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book Post Colonial Identities written by Ce, Chin and published by Handel Books. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post Colonial Identities revisits issues regarding the newer literature within the expansive African heritage of diverse regional and national groupings. It is poised at substantiating the uniformity of Africa in terms of literary and cultural movements, and lending some inter-disciplinary insights on the whole body of literature through twentieth century history.

Chinua Achebe

Author : Nahem Yousaf
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Chinua Achebe written by Nahem Yousaf and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This literary study is an exploration and a celebration of a writer who for the last half century has been at the forefront of modern African writing. Since the publication of Things Fall Apart in 1958, Chinua Achebe has been credited with being the key progenitor of an African literary tradition and his five novels read as tracing the national narrative of Nigeria. Achebe depicts precolonial societies disturbed by British colonization, in the 1890s and the 1930s, the dog days of colonization in the 1950s, Independence in 1960 and the onset of neo-colonial problems of corruption and civil war and, in his final novel, Anthills of the Savannah (1987), the pervasive sense of postcolonial disenchantment. This study casts back over Achebe's writing career to assess his considerable contribution to postcolonial writing and criticism, including his Editorship of Heinemann's acclaimed African Writers Series which has shaped African literature for international audiences since 1962. Yousaf's examination of A

Decolonization Agonistics in Postcolonial Fiction

Author : C. Okonkwo
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230375316
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Decolonization Agonistics in Postcolonial Fiction written by C. Okonkwo and published by Springer. This book was released on 1999-05-10 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores through theory and in-depth textual criticism how novelists from formerly colonised societies have exploited indigenous codes and conventions of aesthetic representation to transform the novel into an effective medium for cultural and political resistance to (neo)colonialism. Concentrating on novels written between the late 1940s and early 1990s in Africa, Polynesia, and the West Indies, it offers a fresh mode of postcolonial critique which takes account of the ideological impulses behind the novelists' interpretation of the colonial experience.

Critical Perspectives on Chinua Achebe

Author : Catherine Lynette Innes
Publisher : Three Continents
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Chinua Achebe written by Catherine Lynette Innes and published by Three Continents. This book was released on 1978 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

Author : David Whittaker
Publisher : Brill Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042033962
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (339 download)

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Download or read book Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart written by David Whittaker and published by Brill Rodopi. This book was released on 2011 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1958, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart has won global critical and popular acclaim. Offering a hitherto unlimned picture of a traditional culture, it is both a moving story of the coming of colonialism and a powerful and complex political statement on the nature of cross-cultural encounter. The novel has been immensely influential work as the progenitor of a whole movement in fiction, drama, and poetry focusing on the re-evaluation of traditional cultures and postcolonial tensions. It enjoys a pre-eminent position as a foundational text of postcolonial studies. This collection, originating in a conference held in London to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the novel's first publication, opens with a fascinating, insightful, and wide-ranging interview with Achebe. The essays that following explore contemporary critical responses and the novel's historical and cultural contexts. Achebe's influence on the latest generation of Nigerian writers is discussed in essays devoted to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Another essay examines the radical feminist response to the novel in the work of the francophone Algerian writer Assia Djebar, another the illustrations accompanying early editions. Teaching strategies and reader responses to the novel cover Texas, Scotland, and Australia. One measure of the phenomenal worldwide success of Things Fall Apart is the fact that it has been rendered into some forty-five languages; accordingly, further contributions offer sharp analyses of the German and Polish translations of the novel. Contributors: Mick Jardine, Dorota Goluch, Waltraud Kolb, Bernth Lindfors, Russell McDougall, Malika Rebai Maamri, Michel Naumann, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Christopher E.W. Ouma, Rashna Batliwala Singh, Andrew Smith, David Whittaker.

Reading Chinua Achebe

Author : Simon Gikandi
Publisher : Heinemann International Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Reading Chinua Achebe written by Simon Gikandi and published by Heinemann International Incorporated. This book was released on 1991 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Gikandi has set out to reveal the very nature of Achebe's creativity, its prodigious complexity and richness, its paradoxes and ambiguities.

The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore

Author : Akintunde Akinyemi
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030555178
Total Pages : 1041 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore written by Akintunde Akinyemi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 1041 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook offers the most comprehensive, analytic, and multidisciplinary study of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the African Diaspora to date. Preeminent scholars Akintunde Akinyemi and Toyin Falola assemble a team of leading and rising stars across African Studies research to retrieve and renew the scholarship of oral traditions and folklore in Africa and the Diaspora just as critical concerns about their survival are pushed to the forefront of the field. With five sections on the central themes within orality and folklore – including engagement ranging from popular culture to technology, methods to pedagogy – this handbook is an indispensable resource to scholars, students, and practitioners of oral traditions and folklore preservation alike. This definitive reference is the first to provide detailed, systematic discussion, and up-to-date analysis of African oral traditions and folklore.