Chinua Achebe
DEPTH SEMANTICS OF METAPHORS IN CHINUA ACHEBE’S ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANNAH
... No doubt, metaphors in Chinua Achebe's Anthills of the Savannah have excited much critical attention. Such attention is however not surprising given that metaphors in the text are so pervasive that they cannot ...
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CONFLICT OF INTERESTS: BEATRICE PLAYING THE ROLE OF A MEDIATOR IN CHINUA ACHEBE’S ANTHILLS OF THE SAVANNAH
... Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah (1987) is usually read as a record of military dictatorship, power play, conflicts, intimidations, disagreements, and misunderstandings in the society. There are ...
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THE TRANSLATION PROBLEMS OF CULTURAL ELEMENTS OF AFRICAN POSTCOLONIAL LITERATURE The case of "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe
... Having examined the concept of culture, we could at this moment say that the novel, Things Fall Apart, is a reflection of the Igbo culture. Through the hero, Okonkwo, Chinua Achebe was able to trace the ...
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Hybridity in Culture and Identity: Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease
... in Chinua Achebe's (1930-2013) No Longer at Ease ...power, Achebe tries to focus on the problems of identification among ...culture. Achebe shows that religion and rituals are two important factors ...
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AFRICAN LITERATURE AND THE CHANGING WORLD: THE ANTITHETICAL IDEOLOGIES OF INDIVIDUALISM AND COMMUNALISM IN CHINUA ACHEBE’S NOVELS
... narratives. Chinua Achebe, a leading literary African writer has extensively promoted African communality in fictional ...of Achebe including; Arrow of God, Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease, ...
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A Stylistic Analysis of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
... of Chinua Achebe in his novel Things Fall ...place. Chinua Achebe has successfully made use of the figures of speech to clearly describe the unique life of the native ...
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Chinua Achebe’s Girls at War and other Stories: A Relevance-Theoretical Interpretation
... Relevance Theory (RT), which is a theory that takes the Gricean approach to communication as a starting point of linguistic or literary analysis, is an influential theory in Pragmatics that was developed by D. Sperber ...
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Dynamics of Change and Displacement in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God
... Chinua Achebe has chosen Africa, especially Nigeria, its people, their peculiar world view and way of life as the creative space of his ...by Achebe in his third novel Arrow of God ...establishes ...
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Narrative Techniques in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
... Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart (1959) is Africa’s most widely studied creative work (Iyasere 1998). However, literary critical studies of the novel have dealt mainly with issues of cultural importance. Critics ...
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Clash of Cultures: A Study of Chinua Achebe’s Novel Things Fall Apart
... In his essay Literature and Society, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o explores the action and strategy of imperialism. Thiong’o holds the view that the aim of any colonial mission is to get at a people’s land and what that land ...
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The Clash of Cultures’ Image in Chinua Achebe’s Novel Things Fall Apart
... in Chinua Achebe’s Novel Things Fall Apart” which by virtue of collecting different scholars and artists’ literary views and manuscripts, revealed the intellectual views of Achebe and opinions on the ...
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Colonial Representations in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease
... by Chinua Achebe‟s novels. NLE by Achebe (1987) even starts with the a number of illustrations of the White or English colonial presence, rather their dominance, in Nigeria in the late 1950‟s: ...
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The Theme of the Colonialism as Embodied in Chinua Achebe’s Fictions: with Reference to Arrow of God, Things Fall Apart and No Longer at Ease
... in Chinua Achebe’s novels “Things Fall Apart” (1958), “No longer at Ease” (1960), and “Arrow of God” (1964), that demonstrated the beauty and validity of the African life before it was destroyed by an alien ...how ...
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Igbo Cosmology in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God: An Evaluative Analysis
... professor Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) and the fifty years anniversary of the publication of Arrow of God (AG) have led to fresh interest in the works and times of this great African literary ...that ...
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Transitivity Analysis of Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God and Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Petals of Blood: A Comparative Systemic Functional Linguistic Approach
... that Chinua Achebe in these extracts from his novel has highlighted the diverse transformations that took place both in Africa as a whole and in the individual lives with the arrival of the British colonial ...
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Chinua Achebe and the Ego Ideal: A Psychoanalytic Reading
... of Chinua Achebe’s works, this article approaches Achebe’s fiction and non-fiction using Freud’s theory on narcissism and creative writers as well as Otto Rank’s views on art and the ...of Achebe and ...
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THE THEMES AND STYLE IN THINGS FALL APART BY CHINUA ACHEBE
... Born Albert Chinualumogo Achebe, Chinua Achebe was raised by Christian evangelical parents in the large village Ogidi, in Igboland, Eastern Nigeria. He received an early education in English, but ...
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An Evaluation of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God in Light of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o’s Essay “The Quest for Relevance”
... novel, Achebe clearly points it out that the African people had a rich and glorious past, and they were civilized in their own way which was of course unique and different from the European ...Africa,” ...
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Imagined nations and imaginary Nigeria: Chinua Achebe’s quest for a country
... writer Chinua Achebe passed away on 21 March ...1 Achebe began shouldering the ‘historical challenge’ with the publication of his seminal and widely-acclaimed novel, Things fall apart in ...of ...
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Representation of Colonial Encounter in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
... that Chinua Achebe has rightly reconstructed historical and political events regarding the recent past of the Igbo people who were suppressed and oppressed by the ...
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