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Full-Text Articles in African Languages and Societies
Who Am I?: How Natives’ Mental Trauma Develop During Precolonial And Colonial Eras As Seen In Achebe’S Things Fall Apart And Fanon’S The Wretched Of The Earth, Sophia D. Casetta
Who Am I?: How Natives’ Mental Trauma Develop During Precolonial And Colonial Eras As Seen In Achebe’S Things Fall Apart And Fanon’S The Wretched Of The Earth, Sophia D. Casetta
Pepperdine Journal of Communication Research
Colonialism is a long, brutal process, where natives’ identities are uprooted as colonizers establish their influence in a foreign land. Consequently, through the exploration of the natives’ response to this upheaval throughout the precolonial and colonial eras, the psychological toll that is placed on the colonized is evident. Such mental trauma that is incited is explored in Chinua Achebe’s fictional novel Things Fall Apart, which unveils the slowly lost of the natives’ identities during the precolonial shift, and the non-fiction work of Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth that details psychological disorders of the colonized due to colonization. …
How Has Post Colonialism Affected Our Perception In The Novels “No Longer At Ease” By Chinua Achebe And “Samskara” By U.R Ananthamurthy?, Aaryan Manoj Nair
How Has Post Colonialism Affected Our Perception In The Novels “No Longer At Ease” By Chinua Achebe And “Samskara” By U.R Ananthamurthy?, Aaryan Manoj Nair
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A study in post-colonialism is a highly enticing endeavor. In the modern society, postcolonial literature is largely underappreciated in contrast to the more opulent reception of the Victorian or Elizabethan era of literature. The truth is, even today, modern perceptions of many colonial nations are largely constructed by their colonial masters. There is certainly a bias due to the influence of Western Hegemony and its monopoly on global media. The Western world still possesses a tendency to discredit anything which does not conform to its democratic liberalist ideals without glancing at other local factors. In the modern world, while the …
Mbiti And Achebe On The Forward Movement Through The Past, Chima Anyadike
Mbiti And Achebe On The Forward Movement Through The Past, Chima Anyadike
The Journal of Traditions & Beliefs
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Achebe's Igbo Poems: Oral Traditional Resources And The Process Of ‘Deschooling’ In Modern African Poetics, Chukwuma Azuonye
Achebe's Igbo Poems: Oral Traditional Resources And The Process Of ‘Deschooling’ In Modern African Poetics, Chukwuma Azuonye
Africana Studies Faculty Publication Series
The present paper examines the diction, imagery and other features of language and style in Chinua Achebe's two Igbo poems ("Uno Onwu Okigbo" and "Akuko Kpulu Uwa Iru"). Disposing of charges of plagiarism levied on Achebe on account of his modeling of the poems on well-known Igbo folk songs, the paper argues that what is rather involved in the compositional process is a process of "deschooling" from the strictures of European or Eurocentric conventions of versification. It concludes that a process of "deschooling" of this kind is one way in which African writers can begin their journey back with undivided …
Ijelè: Welcoming The King Of Modern African Letters To Massachusetts, Chukwuma Azuonye
Ijelè: Welcoming The King Of Modern African Letters To Massachusetts, Chukwuma Azuonye
Africana Studies Faculty Publication Series
A welcome address presented to Professor Chinua Achebe, novelist, poet, essayist, cultural philosopher, social activist, and Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, in the Science Auditorium, University of Massachusetts at Boston, at a University Forum marking the Inauguration of JoAnn Gora as the 6th Chancellor, on September 26, 2002.
The Word In Africa: Orality And Literacy In Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Arrow Of God, And No Longer At Ease, Matthew Taggart
The Word In Africa: Orality And Literacy In Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Arrow Of God, And No Longer At Ease, Matthew Taggart
WWU Honors College Senior Projects
This paper is written in an attempt to shed light on the representation by Western academics, and by the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe, of African societies that did not use written forms of communication but used oral forms of communication. Achebe in his novels Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, and No Longer at Ease portrays social aspects of orally based societies that may serve to further aid academic studies of orally dominated societies. Throughout the text of his novels Achebe reveals an intimate relationship between individuals and community that is essential to the strength of an oral …