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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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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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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 ...
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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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Folkloric Meta-Narratives In Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
... Following Chinua Achebe’s claim that his Things Fall Apart is a counter-narrative to Joyce Cary’s distortion of the African image in Cary’s Mister Johnson, most critics of Things Fall Apart have approached the ...
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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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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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A Stylistic Analysis of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
... chosen Chinua Achebe’s novel Things Fall Apart, which deals with native Nigerian protagonist’s experience of coping with new culture and order brought by European ...of Chinua Achebe in his Things ...
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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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Searching for New identity in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: Does Future Peace Exist in Change and Hybridity?
... that Chinua Achebe drew for the fall of his society was his people’s inability to accept cultural change and to learn English, thinking that only the Igbo language is the language that should be used to ...
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Clash of Cultures: A Study of Chinua Achebe’s Novel Things Fall Apart
... which Chinua Achebe has fore grounded the religious conflict against the background of colonial encounter between African and British culture, acting as a historical ...
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Women and Ecology: An Eco-Feminist Reading of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
... purposes. Achebe in the novel, uses the character of Ani, the earth goddess and Ezeani, the priest of the goddess to showcase the other underlying intricacies and interplays as well as the similarities between ...
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The metaphor of the feast of the new yam: A case study of chinua achebe’s things fall apart and arrow of god
... At every New Yam feast the coming together of the villages was re-enacted and every grown man in Umuaro took a good- sized seed-yam to the shrine of Ulu and placed it in the heap from his village after circling it round ...
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Past and Present in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease
... Hannah had done so with her daughters before Obi was born, but later Isaac forbade the practice because such tales were for “heathens…not for the people of the Church” (Achebe 66). But Achebe showed that ...
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Cosmologies of the sovereign in Chinua Achebe’s Anthills of the Savannah
... Schwarz is not the only one to have thought of Anthills of the Savannah as tragic. Okain Teiko approaches this perspective from the Igbo concept of chi, where the use of the term goes beyond the personal to the ...
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Dynamics of Change and Displacement in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God
... novel, Achebe places Ulu, the common deity of the six villages constituting Umuaro and his priest Ezeulu, the intermediary between the human world and the spiritual ...
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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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Igbo Cosmology in Chinua Achebe’s Arrow of God: An Evaluative Analysis
... that Achebe analyzes the cosmo-ontological symbol- ism of Ikenga, when he describes it “as the most important fetish in Igbo man’s arsenal, so to speak, it represents his ancestors to whom he must make a daily ...
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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”
... 13 women in Igbo society reflects the historically degraded status of women in those societies. Chinua Achebe successfully addresses these problems to create awareness among the Africans. As the novel ...
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Postcolonial Nigerian Literature as Evident in Achebe’s Novels
... Chinua Achebe's father was a Christian convert while his grandparents and great grandparents rejected new religion and stayed tribal. His parents not only strongly believed in God, they also spread Christianity: ...
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