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Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, the author of Things Fall Apart, the best known--and best selling--novel ever to come out of Africa. His fiction and poetry burn with a passionate commitment to political justice, bringing to life not only Africa's troubled encoun…
Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, the author of Things Fall Apart, the best known--and best selling--novel ever to come out of Africa. His fiction and poetry burn with a passionate commitment to political justice, bringing to life not only Africa's troubled encoun…
" ... an extended exploration of the European impact on African culture, viewed through the most vivid experience available to the author--his own life."--Jacket.
Sociolinguists often research the development of language attitudes and the state of language within speech communities. Individual speakers reflect the status of their L1 language in both speaking and writing (Wa Thiong'o 1986, Showalter 2001), and the idea that writing can be …
In this thesis I argue that the development of the Nigerian novel in the 1950's created an optimistic space within which writers were able to reassert repressed cultural identities, becoming significant participants in the effort to develop viable post-colonial cultural identiti…
This project fills several substantial lacunae in Achebe letters. First, it provides a chronological bibliography of the 1950-1975 Achebe corpus. This establishes for the first time a comprehensive and accurate illustration of the relationships among all published Achebe texts f…
Satire is a significant but largely untheorized mode of writing in post-colonial fiction. This study explores theoretical problems posed by satiric post-colonial novels and discusses the generic, representational, and political strategies of satire in texts by V. S. Naipaul, Chi…
This study examines the role of African novelists as major sources of historiography of Africa, and the socio-cultural experience of its people. Although many African novelists have over the years reflected issues of social and political significance in their works, only a few s…
Folk tales about tricksters (such as Ananse the spider in Africa and the Caribbean or Brer Rabbit in African American communities) play a dual cultural role analogous to the double role of medieval carnival. As safety valves for proscribed attitudes and impulses, both trickster …
This dissertation develops a theory of culture which addresses the role cognition plays in the construction and perpetuation of ideologies and the role ideologies play in the formation of national identities and literatures. Using the work of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson as a …
This dissertation seeks to avoid the common reading of postcolonial novels as embracing nationalism because they challenge empire. While recognizing that postcolonial novelists contest the imperialist construction of Africans and Asians as biologically, culturally, and intellect…
In Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe articulates and dramatizes a unique and peculiar kind of rhetoric—a rhetoric that emphasizes that man, and not language, is the site for social interaction. He therefore, in some particular instances, domesticates the English language and make…