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“The book deals with three friends who have come to play major roles in the fictional African nation of Nangan, one as the country’s corrupt president, another as a troubled statesman, and the third as an opposition journalist. A riveting portrayal of an educated elite losing touch with the common people” (The Reader’s Catalog). Shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Characters: Ikem
Critical sites about Anthills of the Savannah
- Anthills of the Savannah
- http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/achebe/anthillsov.html
- An entire page of essays, mostly by undergraduate students under the direction of George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History, Brown University, on various aspects of Anthills of the Savannah.
- Contains: Plot Summary, Character Analysis, Historical Context, Content Analysis
- From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English
- Keywords:
- The Confluence of Religion and Economic Class
- http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/achebe/jlg1.html
- Student essay, under the direction of George P. Landow, a professor at Brown University. “As a result of the change from colonialism to independence and the changes caused by a meeting of two cultures, Nigerians assimilate to a form of the English culture. The relationship between religion and economic class exemplifies this confluence of culture and replication of English practice.”
- Contains: Content Analysis
- Author: Laura Pilar Gelfman
- From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English
- Keywords:
- The Continuing Colonialism
- http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/achebe/contcol.html
- Student essay, under the direction of George P. Landow, a professor at Brown University. “Although the mythical country of Kangan had shed its colonial bonds, the influence of its former British oppressors still remained. The political gap created by the departure of the white man was quickly filled by a government dominated by militant, totalitarian leaders equally as oppressive as the white colonists.”
- Contains: Character Analysis, Content Analysis
- Author: Jason M. Smith
- From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English
- Keywords:
- Food in Anthills of the Savannah and Bones
- http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/achebe/yancovitz1.html
- Student essay, under the direction of George P. Landow, a professor at Brown University. Addresses the idea of food as culturally defining in Anthills of the Savannah and Chenjerai Hove’s Bones. Linked to the other two parts of the essay, “Food in Anthills of the Savannah” and “Food in Bones.”
- Contains: Content Analysis
- Author: Molly Yancovitz
- From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English
- Keywords:
- Freud’s Id, Ego, and Superego in Anthills of the Savannah
- http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/achebe/cafreud.html
- Student essay, under the direction of George P. Landow, a professor at Brown University. “Sigmund Freud proposed that the human psyche could be divided into three dependent parts, the id, the ego, and the superego. Achebe explores these three entities by developing characters that embody each.”
- Contains: Character Analysis
- Author: Jason M. Smith
- From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English
- Keywords:
- Historical Detection in Waterland and Anthills of the Savannah
- http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/achebe/histeria2.html
- Student essay, under the direction of George P. Landow, a professor at Brown University. Continues the train of thought begun in “Histeri(a): Introduction to History in Achebe and Swift.” The essay is concluded in “So-Called Natural History in Waterland and Anthills of the Savannah.”
- Contains: Content Analysis
- Author: Kate Cook
- From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English
- Keywords:
- Hysteri(a): Introduction to History in Achebe and Swift
- http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/achebe/histeria.html
- Student essay, under the direction of George P. Landow, a professor at Brown University. “Exploring questions regarding the intimate relationship between history and the self, the importance of storytelling, and notions of progress, the detective stories Anthills of the Savannah and Waterland problematize historical production and narrative.” Continues in “Historical Detection in Waterland and Anthills of the Savannah” and concludes in “So-Called Natural History in Waterland and Anthills of the Savannah.”
- Contains: Content Analysis
- Author: Kate Cook
- From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English
- Keywords:
- Ideological Positioning in Anthills of the Savannah and The Remains of the Day
- http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/achebe/caideol.html
- Student essay, under the direction of George P. Landow, a professor at Brown University. “Both The Remains of the Day and Anthills of the Savannah reveal the ideological implication of people who have secondary or ‘helping’ roles in the support of someone else’s political project.”
- Contains: Character Analysis, Content Analysis
- Author: Beth Soucar
- From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English
- Keywords:
- Ikem on the Oppression of Women
- http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/achebe/oppress.html
- Short piece by a professor at Brown University, intended to provoke thought about Ikem’s character in the novel.
- Contains: Character Analysis, Content Analysis
- Author: George P. Landow
- From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English
- Keywords:
- Ikem on True Radicalism
- http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/achebe/radical.html
- Short piece by a professor at Brown University, intended to provoke thought about the novel.
- Contains: Content Analysis
- Author: George P. Landow
- From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English
- Keywords:
- Ikem’s Political Philosophy
- http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/nigeria/ikem.html
- Short piece by a professor at Brown University, intended to provoke thought about the novel.
- Contains: Content Analysis
- Author: George P. Landow
- From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English
- Keywords:
- The Inspired Story-Teller in Traditional African Culture
- http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/achebe/castory.html
- Short piece by a professor at Brown University, intended to provoke thought about the novel.
- Contains: Content Analysis
- Author: George P. Landow
- From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English
- Keywords:
- The Myth of Women and the Reality of Men’s Actions
- http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/zimbabwe/hove/binns4.html
- Student essay, under the direction of George P. Landow, a professor at Brown University. “Anthills of the Savannah illustrates a culture in which women must save the country from its downfall–a feat possible only with the recreation of Kangan tradition and myth. Such a dramatic shift in power and action requires new myths and a new basis of models which the culture can imitate.” Also discusses Chenjerai Hove’s Bones.
- Contains: Content Analysis
- Author: Corey Binns
- From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English
- Keywords:
- The Political Power of Stories and Storytellers
- http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/achebe/story.html
- Short piece by a professor at Brown University, intended to provoke thought about the novel.
- Contains: Content Analysis
- Author: George P. Landow
- From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English
- Keywords:
- Post-Colonialism: Trying to Regain Ethnic Individuality
- http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/poldiscourse/washburn1.html
- Student essay, under the direction of George P. Landow, a professor at Brown University. “With the British empire gone, African societies must look inward to find remnants of colonialism which continue to harm their nations, and perhaps, find those which are advantageous in the new world they have been thrust into.” Addresses Anthills of the Savannah as well as several other contemporary works.
- Contains: Content Analysis, Historical Context
- Author: David Washburn
- From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English
- Keywords:
- Postcolonial Feminism in Anthills of the Savannah
- http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/achebe/greenwald3.html
- Student essay, under the direction of George P. Landow, a professor at Brown University. Discusses the “question of the restoration of women in postcolonial visions of Africa’s past, present, and future,” in Anthills of the Savannah and Yvonne Vera’s Nehanda.
- Contains: Content Analysis, Historical Context
- Author: Andy Greenwald
- From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English
- Keywords:
- Reading Questions for Anthills of the Savannah (Autumn class)
- http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/achebe/lq.html
- Reading questions created by students in a Brown University English class, under the direction of George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History. Very detailed. Also relates the novel to other books read in the class.
- Contains: Content Analysis, Character Analysis
- From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English
- Keywords:
- Reading Questions for Anthills of the Savannah (Spring class)
- http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/achebe/lq1.html
- Reading questions created by students in a Brown University English class, under the direction of George P. Landow, Professor of English and Art History. Very detailed. Also relates the novel to other books read in the class.
- Contains: Content Analysis, Character Analysis
- From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English
- Keywords:
- So-Called Elitism in Anthills of the Savannah
- http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/achebe/polaction.html
- Short piece by a professor at Brown University, intended to provoke thought about the novel.
- Contains: Content Analysis
- Author: George P. Landow
- From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English
- Keywords:
- So-Called Natural History in Waterland and Anthills of the Savannah
- http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/achebe/histeria3.html
- Student essay, under the direction of George P. Landow, a professor at Brown University. “Achebe suggests that whereas human triumphs over nature are always temporary, people must continually engage in the infinite task of making new stories by manipulating history.” Completes the train of thought begun in “Hysteri(a): Introduction to History in Achebe and Swift” and continued in “Historical Detection in Waterland and Anthills of the Savannah.”
- Contains: Content Analysis
- Author: Kate Cook
- From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English
- Keywords:
- Subversion Versus Rejection: Can Postcolonial Writers Subvert the Codified Using the Language of the Empire?
- http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/poldiscourse/brandon1.html
- Student essay, under the direction of George P. Landow, a professor at Brown University. This first part of the essay contains links to subsequent sections, including one entitled “Anthills of the Savannah and Languages of Wider Communication,” as well as a bibliography of sources used.
- Contains: Historical Context, Content Analysis, Bibliography
- Author: Brandon Brown
- From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English
- Keywords:
- The Term Postcolonial Applied to Anthills of the Savannah and A Forest of Flowers
- http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/poldiscourse/hander5.html
- Student essay, under the direction of George P. Landow, a professor at Brown University. This essay, in linked parts, addresses the conflicts “arising when post-colonial fiction becomes only an analysis of the indigenous vs. colonizer struggle” through a discussion of gender roles in Anthills of the Savannah and A Forest of Flowers.
- Contains: Content Analysis, Historical Context
- Author: Margaret Hander
- From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English
- Keywords:
- The Theme of Language in Recent African Novels
- http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/achebe/ellingson4.html
- Student essay, under the direction of George P. Landow, a professor at Brown University. Continuation of the essay, “Postcolonial as a Literary Term–Reclaiming Voice or Stifling It?”.
- Contains: Historical Context, Content Analysis
- Author: Jennifer Ellingson
- From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English
- Keywords:
- Women as Story-tellers in Anthills of the Savannah and Bones
- http://www.scholars.nus.edu.sg/landow/post/zimbabwe/hove/holla1.html
- Student essay, under the direction of George P. Landow, a professor at Brown University. Discusses the different roles of women as story-tellers in Anthills of the Savannah and Chenjarai Hove’s Bones.
- Contains: Content Analysis, Character Analysis
- Author: Alaka Holla
- From: Postimperial and Postcolonial Literature in English
- Keywords:
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